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Universal Music Joins Dada Music Service

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 1:45 PM - by

Universal Music Group has agreed to offer at least part of its extensive music library through Dada.net, Sony's iTunes Store competitor. Dada.net offers potentially lower per-song pricing compared to Apple with its 10 song per month download package for US$10, and its MP3-based tracks are also DRM-free.

The announcement puts Dada in a better position to compete with the market dominant iTunes Store. So far, the company's music selection has been limited in comparison to the iTunes Store, but the addition of Universal Music Group could help it gain some traction.

The service's music sale system, however, may not appeal to every user. Instead of per-song pricing, like the iTunes Store, Dodo.net charges users $10 a month for up to 15 song downloads -- potentially about $0.66 per track. Unused credits can't be carried over to the next month, so any leftover credits are lost.

While Dada.net isn't likely to make a significant dent in the iTunes Store's marketshare, its DRM-free music deal with UMG shows that the record labels are still embracing their anything-but-iTunes philosophy for copy protection-free music deals.

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Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:34 pm

Once again, another US only "service".

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Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:54 pm

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rpaege said:

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Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:55 pm

Seems like an OK service for the 18-25 set. Though my first reaction was that it looked like another meet market. I suppose if you really MUST have constant new music around then this might be OK, though $10/month for 15 downloads ? maybe two albums if you're lucky ? seems a little low for the hard core music aficionado. So I suspect twenty somethings would find themselves shelling out a lot more than $120 a year.

As for the rip-off of the decade, ring tones (you can make your own for nothing after all), only a fool would fall for that pitch, but it seems Dada has found that it's easy to dupe the naive.

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Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:14 am

Confused....

Are these mistakes in the article or am I missing the point being made:

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Dada.net offers potentially lower per-song pricing compared to Apple with its 10 song per month download package for US$10
= $1.00/song

then

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Dodo.net charges users $10 a month for up to 15 song downloads -- potentially about $0.66 per track.
...and who's Dodo.net????? Are these two services with different prices or just two separate misprints?

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