Amazon creates gigantic DRM-free music store!:
Amazon is selling 2,000,000 tracks as DRM-free MP3s! [and they’re 256 kbit files, from what I have seen — ed]
But not all of them as tracks. As noted earlier, Radiohead still insist on selling their material as complete albums (as if we can’t then shuffle or skip the tracks we don’t like as much). Whatever. Don’t know who else does that, actually.
And Led Zeppelin? Still a pure analog hold out.
Interesting that the tracks are the same price –US$.99 — while the albums are a dollar (or more) less that at iTunes. Is that competition stuff we keep hearing about?
You have to use their downloader application to get your stuff, but you get a free track as an inducement to download it and set it up (and for them to keep testing and verifying).
And on the topic of competition, this arrived in this morning’s post:
I’m not moved to go back. The big drawback last time was not so much the limited or spotty catalog but the fact that you couldn’t find out about until after you joined the service. Can you say “pig in a poke?”