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Amazon MP3
Kevin
Posted: 26 September 2007 12:50 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Amazon MP3

Amazon just announced their online download music store.  Basically another competitor to ITunes.

Not available on Amazon MP3: Warner Music and Sony BMG labels ... just a few artists they’ll be missing there.

Britannia
Posted: 26 September 2007 03:10 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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iTunes > *

James
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3pmusic
Posted: 26 September 2007 08:14 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Amazon MP3 is DRM-FREE so that’s a win for the service.

”Still Not A Dj.” -BT

raven848
Posted: 26 September 2007 09:27 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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yeah I didn’t know anyone still used itunes.

gahhh

Britannia
Posted: 27 September 2007 05:10 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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3pmusic - 26 September 2007 08:14 PM

Amazon MP3 is DRM-FREE so that’s a win for the service.

That I didn’t know—and I agree, a definite positive.

James
“I’m English, we call 50 cent 25 pence.” - Nigel Lythgoe
“...Time, it will not wait...no matter how hard you hold on...it escapes you.” -Ultimecia

Godspeed
Posted: 28 September 2007 09:29 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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3pmusic - 26 September 2007 08:14 PM

Amazon MP3 is DRM-FREE so that’s a win for the service.

What does DRM stand for and what is it?

http://www.redefineband.com
http://www.myspace.com/redefinerocks
Go. Listen. Rock your face off.

Cast your vote for REDEFINE for TASTE OF CHAOS!

Racer X
Posted: 28 September 2007 05:56 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Digital Rights Management.

It is what keeps you from converting music that you buy from Itunes to mp3 format so you can play it on other devices.

"I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.”
- Socrates (5th Century B.C.)

In dire need of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to Brodmann Area 46, coupled with stem cell treatment.

3pmusic
Posted: 28 September 2007 09:44 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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DRM = The Devil.

”Still Not A Dj.” -BT

Godspeed
Posted: 29 September 2007 04:20 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Agreed, DRM is the epitome of evil.  Aside from Amazon MP3, what other music downloading services surpass iTunes?

http://www.redefineband.com
http://www.myspace.com/redefinerocks
Go. Listen. Rock your face off.

Cast your vote for REDEFINE for TASTE OF CHAOS!

Rageous
Posted: 29 September 2007 06:10 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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None. Amazon is the first real competitor since the inception of the iTunes Music Store that actually offers a comparable, cheaper alternative with a real music catalogue. Everyone else prior to this have used subscription-based models (Napster, Real Rhapsody, etc.) or tried the iTunes a-la-carte model and failed (Zune Marketplace). Not to mention, all of those aforementioned attempts used the crappy WMA format with enough DRM that you couldn’t even use the files outside the computer you bought ‘em on.

Amazon by contrast, made a huge leap by retaining the DRM-free MP3 format, using a respectably high bitrate (256kbps), offering the same content as iTunes (for the most part), and offering their music cheaper than iTunes. They also somehow managed to get all the studios to go along with it, for no reason other than to knock Apple off their high horse.

I was pretty vocal against all the other services, but Amazon has a hit on their hands… and this will be fantastic for competition.

PropellerHeadCase
Posted: 30 September 2007 03:12 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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So therefore also MUCH cheaper than iTunes Plus, eh?  Is it Geo-locked, though?

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