Why does Yahoo! music only play a 30 second clip?

Question

Instead of the video or song playing, there is a 30 second clip of the song/video. The only way to hear the whole song is to buy it, I believe. Does anyone know why? And where can I LEAGALLY hear the entire song (just once) for free?

Answer 1

Yeah, it's what the other guy said, illegal, that's the limit. But most of the time you can go to that band's myspace profile and listen to the entire song.

Answer 2

The reason why you can't listen to the entire song is because it would be illegal and there is no website that does the job.

A few years earlier www.mp3.com had that kind of feature.

Answer 3

www.imeem.com, www.projectplaylist.com, www.deezer.com for music and www.youtube for videos. hope that helps

Answer 4

Because they are greedy people that want a ton of money!

Answer 5

They want you to join Yahoo Music unlimited.

http://music.yahoo.com/ymu/

Yahoo! Music Unlimited: $71.88 per year, billed annually (that's just $5.99 per month); or $8.99 per month

Compare that to Rhapsody and Napster

Rhapsody Unlimited, which lets you to listen to unlimited music on your PC, is available for $12.99/month.

Napster starts at $9.99 a month

If you install the Rhapsody player they give you 25 free plays every month if you only want to hear something once or so a month.

Answer 6

Launchcast music,

it's yahoo.