Category Archives: News

New Download Source

I’ve changed the source where you can download the song of the days. I will now be using Bing Music. Technically, you don’t download directly from there, but it will allow you to chose who you buy the music from, either Amazon, iTunes, or Zune. This decision does have a little to do with Amazon terminating my Associate Program membership just because I live in Illinois. But it is also because Bing Music does have more features. Along with allowing you to chose the music store you can buy from, Bing Music also allows you to listen to many of the songs in full before you buy it. While you can only play each song once, it’s better than me posting videos from YouTube seems how many of them stop working. I hope you like the change.

No More Videos

Due to copyright holders, there won’t be any more videos. There could be some, but because most become broken, don’t expect them. Again, I’m sorry for the horrible way copyright holders treat us.

Blocked Videos

I am aware that some artists and/or record labels block the videos from playing on my site. Some even go as far as to block them from the source page as well. I do not condone this action, and I am sorry that they want to treat potential customers this way.

Site Funding

Yesterday I received an email from Amazon saying that they might be dropping me from their Amazon Associate Program. It’s not due to anything I’ve done, but because of legislation that has been proposed by the Illinois state government. This actually won’t decrease revenue from this site, because no one is using the “Amazon” links on the site to buy music. If the bill does go through, I will have to find another method to fund this site, probably a PayPal donate button that I hope you will actually use unlike my Amazon links.

New Domain!!!

I just bought a domain to host my blog. Instead of the generic brianburwell.wordpress.com, you can find my blog at RandomSongoftheDay.org. Yes, .org. I would have gone with .com, but someone is squatting on that one.