I'd like to add a plug for Magnatune. Absolutely awesome stuff, you get to pick the price and the media, great service, the artist gets 50% of what you pay. www.magnatune.com
Art Alexion wrote: > On 01/14/2009 [email protected] wrote: >> you can get around the DRM by saving the songs as MP3 songs - extra work but >> can be done. > > AAC files are 128k. If you convert them to MP3, you further compress > them. Have you ever listened to a 96k music podcast on decent speakers? > > I'll make a plug here. I have a subscription to eMusic. eMusic has a > different business model from iTunes. I don't pay by the song, but by > the month for a number of songs. I have a 75 song per month > subscription. The songs are DRM-free 256k MP3s. If I am at work, I can > re-download any song that I have already paid for, as many timmes as I > want, as long as I am still an eMusic subscriber. > > The downside for many may be that eMusic only provides music from > independent labels. A lot of music from a lot of independent labels, > but no Sony/BMG. For me, that's fine. I like mostly jazz, and Blue > Note hasn't released new music in years. Impulse! is defunct. All of > the jazz is on independdent labels anyway. Same if your tastes run to > Alternative. The most interesting and exciting stuff isn't coming out > on conservative major labels anyway. > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
