The Yahoo! Music Engine was launched tonight.
Yahoo is offering unlimited downloads from a library of 1 million songs for $6.99 per month or $60 for an annual subscription. That’s a sharp discount from Los Angeles-based Napster and Seattle-based Real Networks Inc., which both charge $14.95 per month, or just under $180 annually, for similar services.
The Yahoo! Music Engine is a Windows media player with MP3 management, LAUNCHcast integration, sharing with Messenger buddies, music directories, recommendations and a subscription service – and there are already lots of cool plugins for it.
More links
- A thumbs up from Gear Live
- Phil Torrone is intrigued.
- Slashdot
- Jeremy Zawodny: yTunes
- CNET: Yahoo! Music’s geek soul