Developing eWrite

Todays Tuesday Push is ‘DownloadMusic.ie‘ from John Beirne.

Download Music is a site run by Johnny Beirne allowing legal music downloads using the website or a mobile phone. This site has been around for a while based on what I’ve read, though this is my first time taking a look at the service.

The first cool thing that cought my attention about this service was that if you don’t have a credit card to buy music, no problem! You can pay with your mobile phone by texting ‘music’, a space and the track ID to 57501 where you can log in and download the track. Pretty Cool.

There are currently 888 artists to choose from. Songs cost only €1 which is split among the phone operators and the artist, DownloadMusic.ie doesn’t take any money, leaving more for the artist.

DownloadMusic.ie recently released a USB album. This is an album on a USB 1GB USB key with 15 tracks for €12.99. Damien Mulley reviewed this USB album a couple of weeks ago. A great idea, an empty USB stick could cost more than this.

As well as being able to purchase music, the site has other cool features including an RSS feed of upcoming gigs. The site has a blog too which allows you to keep up to date with any music or site related news.

The only thing I could find to give out about was when loading the homepage. I would make thumbnails of the album images, the existing 1023*1023 images took that extras couple of seconds to load.

Maybe bands that have their tracks on the site could put up large QR codes on the stage somewhere when playing a gig so members of the audience could take a picture of with their mobile phones and get directed to the site and track ID to download.

I’ve subbed to the RSS feed and I’ll be visiting this site more in the future. I’ll pass this link on to a few friends too, it would be ideal for them to showcase their music.

As always, if you’d like your web app or service mentioned in the bi-weekly Tuesday push, fill out the form on Damien Mulleys site.