Amazon's DRM-Free Music Store
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
It certainly doesn't seem to have the selection of iTunes, but its cheaper and it comes without DRM. That alone is enough to make Amazon's new music store my first stop the next time I'm in search of a song.
Downloading a single track and bringing it into iTunes for my iPod was just what you'd expect: download to desktop, drag into iTunes, sync. On the Windows side, its only slightly more complicated.To alleviate all this work though, Amazon offers a download helper (required for full album purchases) that retrieves the new purchase and throws it into iTunes or Microsoft Media Player automatically.
Labels: amazon, digial music, drm, itunes
posted by Russell @ 2:12 PM,
4 Comments:
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At 3:10 PM,
Andre said...
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The selection isn't great but it isn't terrible either. Prices are really competitive. No DRM No brainer.
Thanks for the tip - I am going there first also. -
At 6:11 PM,
mkhan said...
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Russell, I was so excite when I first read this post because there are some artists that you can't find at the iTunes store like Kid Rock - I've had to go to other sites to download his music, but then I can't get it in mp3 format. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't have it either. I'm a little frustrated with the whole downloading music thing -I've tried to be honest and always pay for my music, but it seems no good deed goes unpunished. Thanks anyway though for this post because at least I have one more place to check now.
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At 6:54 PM,
Andre said...
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Keep checking back on a regular basis.
I swear there are more artists today than yesterday.
The entire Rolling Stones library is up there today.
Didn't see it yesterday. -
At 7:59 AM,
Russell said...
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I've noticed that some artists, like Kidd Rock, don't show up in any of then stores but do in some of the rental places (like Yahoo Music). Also, I've seen where some music that's available in the rental places is for purchase only.
I wonder how much of that is the artists choice... and why.
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