Taking Sides: iTunes vs Amazon.com mp3 downloady

Neither.

bleep.com

OiNK

Wait is this Amazon thing really DRM-free?

Uh-huh.

Amazon, but they need to increase their selection.

I've been buying tv shows from them and it's extremely convenient. I would by mp3s, but so far haven't found anything I need. If they get their catalog improved I'd do it in a second.

Hmm, after this thread I decided to get a few McCartney tracks that I don't have. It was a whole lot easier than slogging through iTunes, which I've never really liked.

bleep.com

Why did Bleep stop U.S. dollar pricing? I loved them until I had to start paying import prices for everything. Haven't bought a thing since.

import prices on mp3s? tell me they're not that greedy

beatport, bleep, kompakt-mp3

Why did Bleep stop U.S. dollar pricing? I loved them until I had to start paying import prices for everything. Haven't bought a thing since.

When did this happen? I'm looking at my Bleep sales statement for September right now and it says "All US and ROW sales are converted to £ from USD at rate of £1.00 = 2.01908 USD."

I guess they stopped taking the dollar since it became worthless outside the US. I guess they could have continued to take it, but they'd have had to put their USD prices up.

They were charging $1.35 per track, right? At the present rates that's 64p, which is 2/3 the price in the UK (99p). It makes no sense at all for a UK company to continue to do that. It's €1.35 too, which is 94p.

So, basically, write your congressman.

whatpeopleplay.com (ex- playwordandsound.net)

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071227-3down-1-to-go-warner-music-group-drops-drm.html

amazon all the way.
keep holding out, Sony, lookin' good down there.

Fuck a Sony for owning Columbia

I was kind of annoyed that my parents bought a Sony TV actually

I think the people who are trying to say this means sony/bmg has no choice but to go drm-free in 2008 are living in a fantasy

my favorite thing about Amazon: if I want to buy a track that's 15 minutes long, they just charge me twice as much for it rather than "screw you buy the whole album"

sometimes! there's a lot of comps though where they make you buy the whole album or nothing at all - Wipeout Pure ost for example, a few others I can't remember off the top of my head

really? that sucks. I guess I haven't really looked into it that much; I was just excited that the other day, when I was suddenly overcome by the desire to hear Messiaen playing "Apparition de L'eglise Eternelle", they not only had it but were also actually willing to sell it to me.

Has anyone else had problems with Amazon mp3s on their iPod? The album is fine on the computer, but on my iPod, a few of the mp3s start to sound like they're clipping and then just sort of sputter out for a second. I re-loaded the tracks and I'm having the same problem. This hasn't happened to any of my other mp3s.

Not I.

I go for the Russian sites. One dollar albums.
Can't beat that convenience.

Which Russian sites? Where? How? Please?

any posts containing to malware distributors will be deleted on sight, just so you know

gaaah hurry up and launch in the UK, amazon mp3 fux

I think the people who are trying to say this means sony/bmg has no choice but to go drm-free in 2008 are living in a fantasy

-- El Tomboto, Friday, December 28, 2007 5:22 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

^^^
Pwn3d

http://www.faniq.com/images/blog/Kool-AidMan.jpg

man I can never get over how unbelievably shitty itunes' selection is

wow. now if that actually comes to pass and sony/columbia japan stuff starts showing up on amazon MP3 I'll be a happy man

I just paid $5.99 to download Omar Sosa and Adam Rudolph's Pictures of Soul, which made me feel like a fucking genius considering that Amazon is charging $19.99 plus some kind of two dollar "sourcing fee" for the CD.