MSN Music UK

Richard Blewett posts about MSN Music being available in the UK. I’ve been using the UK service for the last few weeks and I’m reasonably impressed. There seem to be a few gremlins left to work out but overall the service is good.

I’m particularly enamoured with the micropayment system for streaming music. You can listen to a track streamed online for just a penny. Since I listen to a lot of music through my PC and it’s unlikely that I’ll want to listen to the same thing seventy-odd times, it doesn’t make sense to pay to download tracks so I just listen online. I’ve played loads of stuff I haven’t heard for ages and also found a few CD’s that I will probably buy now for the car (I still like to have something tangible for my money) that I’d never otherwise have tried.