Colonel Panik
Aug 15, 2004, 04:50 PM
I bought a .5L bottle of coke the other day, and it had this free music giveaway thing on it. So, I drink the coke and get the code from inside the cap, and go visit mycokemusic.at.
Okay, it's not available from the Mac. Fine. I turn on my PC, and use Firefox. I still get a message telling me that I'm not on an 'authorised' system. So, I use IE, and voila, the site finally opens.
Now, I enter my code for my 'free music', and I get a message telling me that I've won a free stream (worth €0.01). Ha ha! That's pathetic, I think to myself, why don't I turn on the radio, or MTV, or whatever. A free stream!
Anyway, I decide to find a song I haven't heard in a while, and as my PC is hooked up to the stereo, I'm curious to hear how their stream sounds. So, I find the song I want (there's not much selection), and I double-click it to play. Here comes another message: My computer needs some software downloaded in order to play the stream. So I let it download. Then I double-click the song again. Now I need to download some sort of license component. So, I let it.
It never finishes downloading.
I've rarely used something so pathetic. Steve Jobs is right. Purchasing music through a web browser just doesn't work.
It would have been worse if I didn't have IE or Windows Media Player installed.
Thank God for iTunes.
PS, there was a big campaign for mycokemusic when it was about to launch here in Europe, and out of curiousity I tried to visit on the first couple of days, but every time I tried, the servers were down.
And, what exactly is Coke doing trying to sell music?
Okay, it's not available from the Mac. Fine. I turn on my PC, and use Firefox. I still get a message telling me that I'm not on an 'authorised' system. So, I use IE, and voila, the site finally opens.
Now, I enter my code for my 'free music', and I get a message telling me that I've won a free stream (worth €0.01). Ha ha! That's pathetic, I think to myself, why don't I turn on the radio, or MTV, or whatever. A free stream!
Anyway, I decide to find a song I haven't heard in a while, and as my PC is hooked up to the stereo, I'm curious to hear how their stream sounds. So, I find the song I want (there's not much selection), and I double-click it to play. Here comes another message: My computer needs some software downloaded in order to play the stream. So I let it download. Then I double-click the song again. Now I need to download some sort of license component. So, I let it.
It never finishes downloading.
I've rarely used something so pathetic. Steve Jobs is right. Purchasing music through a web browser just doesn't work.
It would have been worse if I didn't have IE or Windows Media Player installed.
Thank God for iTunes.
PS, there was a big campaign for mycokemusic when it was about to launch here in Europe, and out of curiousity I tried to visit on the first couple of days, but every time I tried, the servers were down.
And, what exactly is Coke doing trying to sell music?
