There's a great site, FreePlayMusic that allows you to use any of their cuts free if not for commercial use. They also sell certain albums for $69 and you can use those in profit projects as long as they're not for commerical broadcast. I'm thinking about eventually licensing some of their music for photo movies. Right now I use it for family stuff. I don't know if you can just pick and choose say 10 songs and have them license you, but they do seem flexible, ask you to email or call for terms (which I haven't done yet since the money isn't there at the moment).

If what you are talking about is a music website model where you can purchase your favorite (new) music and download it - versus going the pirate route...a few PC enabled sites are springing up.

You can go over to MP3.com and check out what they have to offer (as well as some of their sister sites). Personally, I stopped doing business with MP3.com - and it's other compaines...but that was a personal choice.

A great deal of people are "tired" of spending money for a CD with only one or two songs that are worth anything. The music folks don't seem to understand that it is not the rise of internet file swapping that has cut a big hole in their profit - it is their products that people don't want to purchase anymore that has.

Please don't misunderstand me - I am in no way pardoning anyone who is illegally swapping music. Heck, I find some of my tracks on Kazaa ever now and then - it's weird to know that I"m being bootlegged. That's money out of my pocket.

But....I don't put out a CD with only one or two good cuts on them. Pretty much all the music on my CDs are gold (if I do say so myself). But I digress.

One of the reasons you haven't heard a great deal of other sites offering a $1 download of music is because the busines model doesn't work. Never has - and probably never will. I have a 100% positive way for it to work - I'm just waiting for some company to contact me for me to share my idea.

Lastly - if you are into making your own music - you can always check out the other SoFo applications (Vegas Audio and Acid) - and d/l their 8packs and/or any of their other sample CDs. They are great to work with - great quality - and once you get them, you can do what ever you want to do with them (including make your own songs for sale).

Hope this helps.

Kameron J.
KJVPresents.com

I think the Apple model will work---when the port it over to the PC world.

Thanks everyone!

I think the Apple idea could work too. It just seems odd the roll out is limited to such a tiny segement of web surfers. How can they see if it works if less then one out of 10 can try it? Oh well. I just got tired of looking for a specific song or two and spending an hour or more at a place like BestBuy and usually striking out or ending up buying something I didn't really want to just get the one or two songs by the artist I did want. So I bought a few "collectons" from TimeLife and that's pretty good. I like the original rock'roll of the 50's 60's the period when I was growing up.

What I was thinking when I saw the Apple commerical was wasn't there some outfit a year or so ago that would let you select X numbers of songs and they would burn a custom CD for ya? Maybe I was dreaming.

I read a review of the Apple Music site (in USA Today or Phila Inquirer, don't remember which) and the reviewer blasted the entire system. He said it only sounded good on IPOD.. If you tried to play them on your PC or in a CD Player, the sound quality was awful. Very flat and hardly worth $1 per song

Listen.com has a similar service called Rhapsody and it started way earlier than Apple's. I currently subscribed to at $9.95 per month. If you want to burn your own CD it will be an additional $.99 per song.