pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=48cf967614b9b922005aadf6maxX=300maxY=194" border="0" alt="zune.jpg" title="zune.jpg" width="300" height="194" /Price isn't the problem with the Zune, but you can't say Microsoft isn't trying:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"a href="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20081120/tc_nm/us_microsoft_zune_1"Reuters: /a span class="yshortcuts"Microsoft Corp/span (span class="yshortcuts"MSFT/span.O) on Thursday announced a new music subscription plan for owners of its span class="yshortcuts"Zune/span players, which would allow them to keep 10 tracks per month and add them to their permanent collection./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The Zune Pass subscription service currently gives consumers on-demand access to millions of tracks for $14.99 per month./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Effective Thursday, the software company's modified subscription plan would allow owners of Zune to keep 10 tracks per month, which has an estimated value of $10. The users can also add those tracks to their permanent collection./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The company said agreements have been signed with the big span class="yshortcuts"four music labels/span -- EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, span class="yshortcuts"Universal Music Group/span and span class="yshortcuts"Warner Music Group/span -- and also with a few independent distributors./p pstrongSee Also: /stronga href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/microsoft-cuts-zune-pricing-won-t-help"Microsoft Cuts Zune Prices. Won't Help/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/V7mnjzCJGE-ulc3G9n-6sKwcvqU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/V7mnjzCJGE-ulc3G9n-6sKwcvqU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=sRpl57zj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=sRpl57zj" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=wH1lVnBS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=fMwDeKaI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=um6i9C9Q"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=um6i9C9Q" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=JrZ68bow"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=bMlY39XQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=t1AOIZFc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=pKejwZqT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/SA090pC2FnI" height="1" width="1"/

C'est l'approche des fêtes, et Microsoft souhaite faire un cadeau aux possesseurs de Zune qui disposent d'un forfait de 14,99 $ permettant d'écouter de la musique jusqu'à plus soif : désormais, 10 chansons seront conservables chaque mois à travers ...

Le Zune Pass est l’abonnement de musique que Microsoft propose sur son Zune MarketPlace. Il s’agit d’un abonnement dit illimité qui propose de télécharger l’ensemble des morceaux disponible pour 15$/mois. Comme toutes les autres offres de ce type, des DRM sont présents sur chaque morceau téléchargé et il vous sera impossible de les écouter si vous arrêtez de payer l’abonnement. Mais Microsoft vient de faire évoluer son offre, puisqu’il sera maintenant possible de conserver chaque mois 10 titres parmi ceux téléchargés, que se soit du catalogue de EMI, Sony BMG Music, Universal Music Group ou Warner Music Group. Un geste qui est tout à l’honneur de Microsoft, mais cela suffira-t-il pour faire décoller cette offre ? À quand une vraie offre illimitée ?

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Microsoft is now offering free tracks to its Zune Pass subscribers, a fresh teaser.  Currently, Zune Pass subscribers pay $14.9...

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Microsoft Zune Drops in Pricing, Changes Zune Music Pass Model

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Microsoft, labels try to revive subscriptions  —  With fewer consumers than hoped for signing up for all-you-can-eat music subscriptions, Microsoft and the record industry are trying to make the option more appealing.  —  As of Wednesday, those who pay for the $14.95 a month Zune Pass subscription …

pMicrosoft (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MSFT" class="ticker" title="MSFT"NSDQ: MSFT/a) just added some a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagniappe" title="lagniappe"lagniappe/a to its Zune Pass music subscription: effective now, 10 tracks a month can be downloaded for keeps. It's a nice gesture for subscribers—I am one so can attest to that—but it's also a very real PR effort to goose interest in the subscription model. To expand the $14.99 monthly subscription, the company crafted new payment agreements with all four majors—EMI, Sony, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group—and indie distributors INgrooves, Independent Online Distribution Alliance and The Orchard. Microsoft values the tracks at approximately $10 (not in the confusing conceit of Zune Marketplace points), which would take the cost of the actual subscription to about $5 a month for those who make all the permanent downloads. /p p -- bLiner notes/b: The 10 permanent tracks can be burned to CD or moved to other devices even after the subscription ends. The Zune Pass currently allows subscription sharing between three PCs and three Zunes. An updated version of Zune's software started distribution Tuesday. Sony BMG and UMG also agreed to provide DRM-free MP3s, joining EMI, WMG and some of the indie labels. Microsoft says Zune's library soon will offer 90 percent of its music as MP3s. /p p -- a href="http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i76e9c2805e7a26bb55b59878fd89e7c3" title="Billboard"Billboard/a: "To make the offer, the Zune team had to rework its existing licensing deals with labels so that it now provides a certain percentage of the Zune Pass subscription fee to all labels based on market share, and then allocates a separate payment to each label based on what music is downloaded for good." br / /p piSocial Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and MA deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. stronga href="http://www.paidcontent.org/reports/"Visit the ContentNext Reports page/a/strongi/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=hBXjnq"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=hBXjnq" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=mnb1N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=mnb1N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=JI7iN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=JI7iN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=IkwJn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=IkwJn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=PjhPN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=PjhPN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=W21tN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=W21tN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/459228707" height="1" width="1"/

Microsoft Corp. is giving an early holiday gift to people who pay for all-you-can-listen access to the Zune digital music store: 10 songs to keep each month, included in the $14.99 monthly subscription fee.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=H6VEN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=H6VEN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=vXBHn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=vXBHn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=BGcRn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=BGcRn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ibtimes/tech/~4/459192741" height="1" width="1"/

Microsofts subscription music offering just got better.

Consumers can now keep the tracks they love.

Microsofts subscription music offering just got better.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/zunemarketplace.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="800" height="647" style="display:block;float:none;" /Microsoft's $15 Zune Pass subscription servicemdash;a pretty sweet deal alreadymdash;has just porked up their offer by giving you 10 free songs that you can ikeep/i every month. We've talked about Zune Pass in our Zune reviews before, but it's basically access to all of the Zune Marketplace for only the price of a CD a month. Since most of their catalog (90% or so, including all the majors and a few indie labels) is already in MP3 format, you can load these free songs on any kind of device you want, like your iPhone or Android phone or PS3 or Wii./p pThey're also announcing the addition of Universal Music Group and Sony BMG to the MP3 DRM-less format (DRM-less as long as you buy the music), the last bits to complete their "majors" MP3 collection. We think the deal is hotness as long as you're OK with the fact that you're renting, not buying; well, you're now "buying" those ten tracks a month, in essence. [a href="http://www.zune.net"Zune/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=a9f330e14cfda810bff1e4c36a282e3b" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a9f330e14cfda810bff1e4c36a282e3b" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=ABbwEN8t"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=KajbOZo2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=D6vLE6fP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=D6vLE6fP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=vGQpBey3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=vGQpBey3" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/8qUjGw3TZR8" height="1" width="1"/

Those who pay for a $14.95 a month Zune Pass will now get to keep 10 songs a month regardless of whether they remain subscribers.

Microsoft's $15 Zune Pass subscription servicemdash;a pretty sweet deal alreadymdash;has just porked up their offer by giving you 10 free songs that you can keep every month. We've talked about...

div align="center"a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Microsoft-Announces-New-Zune-Pass/story.aspx?guid=%7BA6D978F5-6E22-4EFF-95BA-39A4485E5A2C%7D"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/11-20-08-zune-pass.jpg" //abr //div There's just nothing like the holiday season, folks. That warm, fuzzy feeling you get when spending your last dollar on a gift for someone you aren't even that fond of -- really, what else can compare? On second thought, maybe this can. Microsoft has just announced that, beginning today, a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/ZunePass/"Zune Pass/a users will be able to select ten tracks per month to keep forever (and ever, and ever), and the $14.99 monthly subscription rate isn't headed up. Agreements have been miraculously nailed down between Microsoft and EMI Music, Sony BMG Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, not to mention a number of independent distributors. We must say, we certainly appreciate the gesture here, but is it enough to make fencesitters buy in? What say you?pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portablevideo/" rel="tag"Portable Video/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/microsoft-revamps-zune-pass-keep-ten-tracks-per-month-forever-a/"Microsoft revamps Zune Pass: keep ten tracks per month forever and ever/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:35:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Microsoft-Announces-New-Zune-Pass/story.aspx?guid=%7BA6D978F5-6E22-4EFF-95BA-39A4485E5A2C%7DRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/microsoft-revamps-zune-pass-keep-ten-tracks-per-month-forever-a/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1377704/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/microsoft-revamps-zune-pass-keep-ten-tracks-per-month-forever-a/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/lt4HS8c-EtX_sCA3BlpsJceo5jg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/lt4HS8c-EtX_sCA3BlpsJceo5jg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=ZJYKjEEU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=ZJYKjEEU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=KYtacM01"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=KYtacM01" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/B30YyXaLhi4" height="1" width="1"/

There's just nothing like the holiday season, folks. That warm, fuzzy feeling you get when spending your last dollar on a gift for someone you aren't even that fond of -- really, what else can compare? On second thought, maybe this can. Microsoft has just announced that, beginning today, Zune Pass users will be able to select ten tracks per month to keep forever (and ever, and ever), and the $14.99 monthly subscription rate isn't headed up. Agreements have been miraculously nailed down between Microsoft and EMI Music, Sony BMG Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, not to mention a number of independent distributors. We must say, we certainly appreciate the gesture here, but is it enough to make fencesitters buy in? What say you?

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In an effort to help boost sales this holiday shopping season, Microsoft announced price cuts on its entire line of Zune MP3 players. The 4GB Zune will drop to $99 (from $129), the 8GB model will drop $10 to $139, and the 16GB will drop $20 to $179. Microsoft said the price cut is not meant to...read more...

Microsoft is giving an early holiday gift to people who pay for access to the Zune digital music store: 10 songs to keep each month, included in the $14.99 monthly subscription fee.

Microsoft, which launched the Zune more than two years ago, has failed to make a dent in Apple's iPod empire.

http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2008...ks-to-keep.aspx

"The week just keep getting better for Zune owners: today we're announcing some amazing enhancements for Zune Pass. Starting today at about 11:00PM pacific time, everyone with a Zune Pass gets to keep 10 tracks from Zune Marketplace each month. These 10 tracks will be yours to keep, forever. Each month that you k