Amazon’sMP3 storeis now in public beta , so you may all have a violin around with the DRM - innocent inspection and repair & mdash like I just did . First observations :
https://gizmodo.com/amazons-drm-free-mp3-store-likely-to-launch-mid-septemb-295555
There are two million tunes usable , from 180,000 artists , include tracks from EMI and Universal . Over half of the songs are priced at 89 cents , including the Top 100 tracks , and they ’re at 256 kbps resoluteness . Once you ’ve installed the Amazon MP3 downloader you may pick off the tracks you want .
Good news : there ’s onus of Bowie , Stones , Daft Punk , Kanye . And the even good newsworthiness is that the only Britney , Pussycat Dolls and Avril Lavigne you’re able to find are karaoke versions , which think they ’ll be estimable than the originals . The bad tidings is that , despite a lot of big names , there ’s also a lot of filler : a gazillion different Willy Nelson compilations , both clean and unsporting versions of Kanye and Fiddy , and legion of unknowns , all which must eat into Amazon ’s two million track . [ Amazon Earworm ]
Press liberation :
Amazon.com Launches Public BETA of Amazon MP3 , A Digital Music Store Offering Customers Earth ’s braggy Selection of A La Carte DRM - Free MP3 Music Downloads
Amazon MP3 offers over 2 million song from more than 180,000 artists and over 20,000 labels , including EMI Music and Universal Music Group
SEATTLE — September 25 , 2007—Amazon.com , Inc. ( NASDAQ : AMZN ) today launched a public beta of “ Amazon MP3 , ” a unexampled digital euphony download store with Earth ’s biggest natural selection of a la carte DRM - free MP3 music downloads . Amazon MP3 has over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels . Amazon MP3 complements Amazon.com ’s existing selection of over 1 million CDs to now bid customers more survival of physical and digital music than any other retail merchant .
“ Amazon MP3 is an all - MP3 , DRM - free catalogue of a la menu music from major label and independent labels , playable on any machine , in high - quality audio , at small cost , ” said Bill Carr , Amazon.com Vice President for Digital Music . “ This new digital euphony service has already been through an all-encompassing individual genus Beta , and today we ’re activated to offer it to our client as a fully running public genus Beta . We bet forrard to get feedback from our customer and using their input to refine the service of process . ”
Every call and record album on Amazon MP3 is available only in the MP3 format without digital rights management ( DRM ) software program . This means that Amazon MP3 customers are devoid to revel their music downloads using any computer hardware machine , including personal computer , Macs
, iPods
, Zunes
, Zens
, iPhones
, RAZRs
, and BlackBerrys
; form their euphony using any music direction program such as iTunes
or Windows Media Player
; and burn Song dynasty to cadmium .
Most songs are price from 89 cents to 99 cents , with more than 1 million of the 2 million songs priced at 89 cent . The top 100 best - sell songs are 89 cents , unless marked otherwise . Most record album are priced from $ 5.99 to $ 9.99 . The top 100 well - selling albums are $ 8.99 or less , unless marked otherwise .
Every song on Amazon MP3 is encoded at 256 kilobit per sec , which gives client gamey audio quality at a manageable file size .
Buying and download MP3s from Amazon MP3 is well-heeled . Customers can buy downloads using Amazon 1 - Click
shopping , and with the Amazon MP3 Downloader , seamlessly add their MP3s to their iTunes or Windows Media Player libraries .
Amazon MP3 has over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists traverse every musical style of music , including 50 Cent , Alison Krauss , Amy Winehouse , Ani DiFranco , Arcade Fire , Beastie Boys , Coldplay , Creedence Clearwater Revival , Ella Fitzgerald , Feist , John Coltrane , KT Tunstall , Keith Urban , Koko Taylor , Lily Allen , Madeleine Peyroux , Maroon 5 , Marvin Gaye , Miles Davis , Morrissey , Nelly , Nickel Creek , Nirvana , Norah Jones , Paul McCartney , Philip Glass , Pink Floyd , Pixies , Radiohead , Ray Charles , Rod Stewart , Spoon , Stevie Wonder , The Chemical Brothers , The Decemberists , and The Rolling Stones .
“ Well done Amazon for making so much euphony useable to so many people , ” said KT Tunstall . “ It ’s good to sleep with , in the words of The King , you ’re hire care of business ! ”
Leading autonomous recording label offer their catalog of music for the first time as DRM - free MP3s admit Alligator Records , HighTone Records , Madacy Entertainment , Sanctuary Records , Rounder Records , Righteous Babe Records , Sugar Hill Records , and Trojan Records .
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