Free music for everyone. Nearly.
By jbc on November 7,
 2007 at 00:00,

For one whole month, you can snaffle any track you want from the all-new Nokia Music Store. Nice! Of course, at the end of the month you’ll have to start handing over cold hard cash, but hey, free music rocks right?

Wrong. According to our statistics, if you’re one of the 38 per cent of NokNok users who use Internet Explorer on Windows, you’ll be laughing. Afterall, stream-as-much-as-you-want for nada is a very nice touch. For the other 62 per cent of you though (I’m ambi-desktop, running as I do seven different browsers on two operating systems) it’s tough titty. See, Nokia Music store won’t work on your browser, forcing you to either forsake your free tunes, or switch to IE on Windows. How depressing.

Here’s what you’re missing. Sign up for the Unlimited Streaming service and you’ll pay nothing for 30 days. If you don’t like it, you can cancel before the end of the 30 days. As the music is streamed, you won’t actually get to keep any of it, obviously. If you like the service you pay £8 per month and you can listen to as much as you want. On your PC (or Mac running Windows). In Internet Explorer. I bet Apple is crapping itself right now. Not.

For the rest of us then? Well, you can sign up for emusic.com and get 25 free tracks. That’s free in every sense. Free to download and keep. Free to play on any player (including your Nokia - no DRM on them there tracks). Free to never have to give back. Free to listen to as loudly as you like. Now that’s what we call free. Just a shame it doesn’t have the same selection as Nokia Music Store. Grrr.