Comments on: facebook connect

By: CyberMaven

CyberMaven — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:27:21 +0000

I am also a fan of Allyson’s thought: “members got a referral bonus for promoting through this, if the promotion resulted in others opening up an account on eMusic and downloading music.” Most of my FB friends are real friends, not people that don’t want to hear from me. I am the music junkie of the group and they will check out emusic if I recommend it. With how easy eMusic is to set up and the more than fair subscription rates, they will love it.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:31:19 +0000

Hey Damon,
I have the same problem running Opera on a Mac. It’s a browser issue, it works in Safari, I’m guessing it works in Firefox and obviously IE too.
Not sure what that’s about.
Anyway… has stopped me from trying/using the feature – but probably no great loss.

By: Damon

Damon — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:19:44 +0000

I don’t have a Facebook button on any page. I’m logged in to both eMusic and Facebook, but NO button.

On Opera 9.63 (k)Ubuntu 8.10

By: BobS

BobS — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:56:11 +0000

When I saw the Facebook / emusic thing I checked it out. Now whenever I click on a song or an whole album the Facebook popup …..pops up. It won’t go away and I find it incredibly annoying.

Is there anyway to get rid of it on my end?

By: DaveB

DaveB — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:45:39 +0000

@ptolemyclark …… very funny LOL

Well, just the bands … and ME!!

myspacedotcom/davebeveridgephotography

By: ptolemyclark

ptolemyclark — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:09:55 +0000

Dave, it’s not any different than linking to an album page from a blog or other site. Any given music blog links to either somewhere to purchase the album (Itunes, Emusic, Amazon) or a link to the band’s website or Myspace page. Your argument is like saying that linking to a band’s Myspace page is free advertising for Myspace, or an Itunes link is advertising for Itunes, etc. Of course it’s free advertising, a no-commitment street team, if you will. I send Emu links to friends on Last.fm all the time, though most of them are on Emu already. Facebook Connect is just another way of doing this, though it’s made much easier, with just a click of a button. It will be useful to some (like me) and not useful at all to others…no one is being forced to use it. Emu’s been a subscription based service for quite a while, and that isn’t going to change anytime soon–it would require a complete overhaul of their business plan and frankly would destroy the entire point of their service. If someone wants to download something that you recommend via Facebook Connect but they absolutely do not want to join the site, then if they have half a brain they’d find some other way to purchase the album…and undoubtedly for a higher price.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:39:33 +0000

I don’t like this.

What I’m most curious to know is if eMusic will move away from a subscription based plan. If they intend to drive people to eMusic to download an album that I recommend, then most people will probably turn away when they find out they have to join the site.

This really is nothing more than advertising for eMusic.

By: Sharon Green

Sharon Green — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:12:21 +0000

love the idea of connecting facebook with e-music

By: Allyson

Allyson — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:52:21 +0000

I think this is very cool but I also seriously think it would be much better if members got a referral bonus for promoting through this, if the promotion resulted in others opening up an account on eMusic and downloading music.

If we can get referrals through tell a friend or an affiliate account, why not get bonuses this way?

By: Marc S

Marc S — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:59:37 +0000

What would be really cool is for my friends to be able to see all of the albums I’ve downloaded over the last few years that I have been an emusic member. Kind of like I can see in my download history.