How do music services work on the Internet?

How do music services work on the Internet?

Well, there's a lot of storage space available on the internet, so a lot of these services like Itunes or Rhapsody or Emusic or some of the up and comings like the Amazon music store, can store huge quantities of different types of music online. This allows you to navigate to their website or their web service and listen to small samples or sometimes entire songs to decide whether you like them. There are two basic models for how internet music is working at the moment and those two models are: the Itunes store for example uses a pay as you go model which means that as you want a song, you purchase and you keep that song or that album, you download it to your computer and it's yours for as long as you have that computer. The other model is called the subscription based model the concept of that is that you pay a certain amount of money per month and you download as much as you want. This is Rhapsody, this is Napster, some of the other sites also support that. The plus to subscription music is lots and lots of music for very very small prices. The minus is if you ever discontinue your subscription service, that music goes “poof.”