MySpace is creating a free music Internet service with major recording labels to go head to head with digital giant Apple, whose iTunes has just claimed the crown as world's largest music store.

Yahoo! News MySpace launches online music service

I've just not got into downloading music from the internet. Rock music is OK, I have downloaed some classic 60s-70s albums, but because I mainly enjoy 'classical' music these days I'm still mostly listening to that via CD or vinyl. And DAB radio of course, but the results on replay of my hi-fi DAB recordings are sometimes disappointing, and the portable Roberts sitting 3 feet from me often sounds a bit like Octopus's Garden ! 


John

I refuse to have anything to do with MySpace as it's owned by Murdoch, so I haven't looked at it for a long time, but I agree IRF, the home page looks awful - but then they're not really trying to appeal to someone like me are they?

I'm also not into downloading music as I already find it impossible to keep up with what I acquire each week, much less revisit older recordings. However I can see that it has the potential to be a better way of distibuting music than CDs. Chandos, for one, are providing many lossless downloads.

He's reduced his share to I think 25%, as I recall as a direct counter to your laudible stance. Its that perennial problem of how to steer round the behemoths-lo the Grauniad/ Sky Hay lit fest with celebs and thinkers mulched
post-modernly for example.