Sprint Cancels PC Downloads from Music Service
Cannot be transferred to other devices?
This is what memory cards are for music/pix!
Even the PC downloaded version was in WMA licensed format that restricted the playback of the file on any other machines or mobile devices.
Anyway, can't you just store music from your own prive collection onto a microsd card? That's what I do.
I had the Samsung A940 a few years ago and bought some tracks from Sprint. The next year I went with a WinMo device that didn't have the Music Store. After that, I got a Treo that also didn't support the store. Just recently, I decided to buy an Instinct and was SHOCKED when all the music I downloaded in '05 and '06 suddenly popped up on my phone to download at no additional cost!
What Sprint is doing is eliminating the PC download that you could listen to on your home computer. To me, this isn't really a big deal.
Now a days you gotta be a smart consumer and not just do everything through your carrier!!!
I understand why some people might not be happy about that, but this is the way it's always been.
People who use the PC download like Slammer's wife are gonna be pissed about this, but it's nothing that utorrent can't fix. ๐
Sprint is starting to seem like frinkin North Korea, I sure am glad I'm not with Sprint, I'm also glad that I'm smart enough to buy music from amazonmp3, and not some controlling, restrictive wireless carrier.
I would say about 25 songs of the 500 or so on my phone are from the store. Sometimes I want a song on my phone NOW and it's nice to have the ability to download it wirelessly in like 30 seconds. The songs also take up a lot less space on my card without a noticable difference in quality.
Like I said before, I can see why no longer offering the PC download might be an issue for some people, but there are ways around that.
Also we like using the sprint store because it goes on our bill and its easier to keep track. it spells everything right out. It's worth the extra 10 cents. And as Sndmn23 said, it is good quality downloads. There are other ways around this but I would prefer to stick with routine. I have 6 lines I have to entertain.
Jayshmay said:
Isn't that what memory cards are for? Don't tell me that when you download a track Over Tthe Air on Sprint's network it gets saved to your phone's on board memory?!!!!?
This is what memory cards are for: music and pictures!
And videos, t.v. shows, pda applications. They're for much more than you think.
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