{"id":479,"date":"2008-05-03T18:38:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T18:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/05\/emusiccom_joe_purdy_and_ray\/"},"modified":"2011-12-27T02:21:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T02:21:45","slug":"emusiccom_joe_purdy_and_ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/05\/emusiccom_joe_purdy_and_ray\/","title":{"rendered":"eMusic.com Joe Purdy and Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found an offer for 25 free songs from <a href=\"http:\/\/eMusic.com\">eMusic<\/a> plus a free audiobook in Fast Company. I went through the set up process and downloaded two albums by <a title=\"Joe Purdy\" href=\"\/jeb\/2008\/03\/joe_purdy\/\">Joe Purdy<\/a>, <strong>Judy Blue<\/strong> and <strong>You Can Tell Georgia<\/strong>, and three songs by Ray Charles. Since I did not install the download manager, I had to download each song one at a time, which was not too bad.<\/p>\n<p>I was disappointed album art did not come with the songs. I had to find the art using Google&#8217;s image search and then paste it in once I had the songs in iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to download a 7 hour audiobook of Mark Twain short stories, but the site said the download was not available and to try later. Meanwhile, it ate up the credit for the audiobook, and I saw no way I could try to download again without being charged.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather read the book, anyway, so I canceled the trial subscription. I found the whole eMusic.com experience to be far inferior to the iTunes store&#8230; except for the free part.<\/p>\n<p>I used a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovercard.com\/customer-service\/faq\/soan.html\">secure online Discover card number<\/a> to set up the eMusic account, just in case.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230; it turns out if I had not followed the Fast Company Free 25 URL, I could have just gone directly to the site and gotten 50 free songs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found an offer for 25 free songs from eMusic plus a free audiobook in Fast Company. I went through the set up process and downloaded two albums by Joe Purdy, Judy Blue and You Can Tell Georgia, and three songs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/05\/emusiccom_joe_purdy_and_ray\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}