GoMusic is a Russian music download site. The site offers a variety of music, special collections, as well as audiobooks in both Russian and English. Songs are priced per song, with prices from 9 to 19 cents; audiobooks range from around $1.60 through $5.00 USD. The site design and display is highly similar to MP3Search.ru along with current database collection numbers; in fact users with a GoMusic account that try to sign into the Mp3Search.ru login page are told that their account is a part of the GoMusic network.
The site provides songs in MP3 format. The songs lack any digital rights management and thus are compatible with any MP3 player including the popular iPod, Zune, and Creative Zen. A majority of the songs are in the VBR format. The bit rate, along with album year and sometimes the genre, is stated in the header information for all albums.
GoMusic users can purchase and download an entire album or list of songs in one click for 10% off. According to the Terms of Use [1], a purchased song may be downloaded only once. The Archive feature allows for a second download of a song. If the second download is not sufficient, a song may also be repurchased. Members can also submit album requests to the site's support desk.
Members must have sufficient funds paid into their GoMusic account in order to purchase music. Members may acquire funds by paying into their account with Visa, MasterCard and American Express credit cards or TelPay. Its interesting to note that GoMusic will only allow a payment of less than 30 USD on the first payment into the member's account. Afterwards, it is mandatory for at least 20$ USD payments or higher. This has led some users to complain on how will not be able to purchase single or a few albums without carrying an extraneous debit on their credit card, which may compound depending on interest rates or value of currency.
At the end of 2008, GoMusic's website changed both aesthetically and functionally. New scripts were added to simplify the download process, especially when buying full albums. For a few months prior to this, all options to pay with a debit or credit card dropped off the site, allowing only users to use the telepay method. When credit card funding came back after the site re-design, the minimum amount to replenish the account went from $20.00 USD to $30.00 USD, and adding 3 more pricing tiers above $30.00 as well.
In June 2009, adding funds to your account no longer re-directs to a website outside of the site. The option to add funds and enter your credit card information is now an input page on the main site.
Information other than the music catalog which is available to site visitors is quite sparse, with only the Terms of Service, the Copyright information and a form for support requests.
According to the site's Copyright Agreement, the site is legal, at least in Russia, in accordance with the "Noncommercial Partnership "Federation of Authors and Rightsholders for Collective Management of Copyright in Interactive Regime."[2] However, similar to AllOfMP3.com, the legality of the site is questionable. The argument over whether MP3 download sites in Russia is legal continues, with viewpoints from both sides.[3]
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| | "Fifteen cents a song -- is it too good to be true?" - Hard News Cafe : : Department of Journalism&Communications |
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