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Re: The work-life merger

moelle — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:09:46 -0000

This is interesting and very relevant. I love your balanced POV though I have to say I feel differently. I have several chronic health conditions and physically NEED time where I am not working, or I will pay for it later. I also think we need to know ourselves. If I don't have at least one day a week where I don't have to think about or look at work, I develop a negative, burned-out attitude and lose my creativity. But it's getting harder by the day, and sometimes it seems like people don't respect boundaries anymore either. Variety is the spice of life I suppose :-) Thank you for sharing this post dM.

Re: Submit tracking numbers via email

moelle — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:14:49 -0000

Excellent! Wow, thanks for getting that going! This has been such a time saver for me and will save even more time. I appreciate what you're doing very much.

Re: Submit tracking numbers via email

moelle — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:38:46 -0000

Thanks - the emails are still such a HUGE help! Appreciate it.

Re: Submit tracking numbers via email

moelle — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:49:23 -0000

LOVING this feature. Thank you so, so much. Great work! Quick question: Is there any way to automagically sort through the email, find the recipient or sender info, and post that to TTP as well? I'm manually editing the memo field in TTP myself for now and that still saves a bunch of time. Thank you for this great feature!

Re: Sony Courts eMusic, Inspires Praise and Backlash

moelle — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:23:49 -0000

Oh, they did? Thanks for sharing that. When did they do that? You have my curiosity piqued about what they must have asked now!

Re: Sony Courts eMusic, Inspires Praise and Backlash

moelle — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:09:45 -0000

Thanks for listening in such open minded fashion. This is probably very trying for all of you.

I do want to add that we all recognize the need to pay artists fairly. We'd have fully supported gradual rate increases to help independent musicians thrive. It's not our fault that eMusic wasn't raising their rates gradually, yet we're the ones who suffer.

Emusic subscribers received the rate hike concurrently with the addition of the Sony back catalog, and it left a bad taste in our mouths. I would suspect that the independent artists need our money far more than (top selling artist here).

Thank you again for listening.

Re: Sony Courts eMusic, Inspires Praise and Backlash

moelle — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:33:59 -0000

As a formerly avid eMusic fan and member since early 2002, here are the issues as I and many others see them:

1. The price change is far more drastic for some of us than what you outline above. I have a "grandfathered" connoisseur package that, for some time now, has been $25 for 100 downloads. Next month, I am moved to $20 for 50 downloads. This is a 163% price increase. Unacceptable.

2. We were not notified personally of our new rates. We have to log in to the site find this news out. Some of us wonder about the legality of not personally informing subscribers of their price change, at least in some states (I am not an attorney).

3. What's worse, this kind of price hike is really, really sneaky. Consider the person who doesn't visit the site regularly... they get their credit card statement and see that their subscription fee has *dropped*. What they don't realize is that their download allotment also has dropped... drastically and disproportionately.

4. In 2006, eMusic sent us an email (personally, unlike this time) where our price plans were GUARANTEED in writing indefinitely as long as we kept our accounts in good standing. This is evidently now null and void?

5. We don't WANT the Sony catalog (no offense). Let alone the fact that it's only the Sony *back* catalog, titles 2 years old or older. We're there for the Indie music. We're the ones who don't buy stuff from your label. We don't see any added value in this deal. We can purchase back titles in clearance bins for less than the price of this rate hike. And we're resentful that we weren't polled, because many of us have been with eMusic for nearly a decade and made our listening habits abundantly clear... many of us proselytized for eMusic over the years. That's over. We're also just a little wary of now downloading DRM-free (?) tracks from a label who had a bit of a snag a few years back, installing malware on computers when people tried duplicating their CDs!

6. Emusic members outside of the US have also been switched over to these new rates, but do not get the Sony catalog. They get nothing for their rate hike.

7. Any business who cares about their customers' preferences (and continued business) will get a pulse on their customer base to see what they want. None of us knew anything about this until the deal was done. And we don't want this deal.

8. If eMusic wants the indie labels to thrive as well, I personally don't think this is going to make that happen. Indies are, right now, reaping high volume downloads at eMusic. That will probably cease as longtime eMusic subscribers leave and are replaced by new subscribers, ostensibly eager to find Sony back catalog titles (not current titles!!) at "half price" what they would be at iTunes. Who's going to surf the depths of eMusic and take chances on indies now that our downloads have been cut in half?

9. Worst of all, despite receiving thousands of complaints on their public forum and blog, eMusic management has been upsettingly silent. And has been accused of filtering and removing particular posts.

In a time where so many of us have had to make sacrifices to put food on our table (I myself am without a job), eMusic has effectively taken away yet one more passion... for some of us, it is the last passion we were able to indulge ourselves in these very, very trying times. I too am leaving eMusic. They basically destroyed a 10-year business model with a very, very bad decision. There ARE alternatives.

Re: Beer Soap - I Tried It and Loved It

moelle — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:35:23 -0000