I have become a fan of the Amazon MP3 store. It is odd using the website to navigate the store but it's pretty seemless, I click download and the Amazon downloader takes care of everything, even puts it into my iTunes library. I will buy from the Amazon store first over iTunes because of the lack of DRM because in addition to my iPhone I have a non-Apple mp3 player.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
iPod Amazon mp3 Store
- Thread starter justind.clark
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
One request for Amazon: how about making non-DRM'd music files in AAC 256 kbps variable data rate format? I think Amazon forgets that Apple totally dominates the portable music player market and many of the newer non-Apple portable music players now support non-DRM'd AAC files nowadays. 
With server hard disk storage being dirt-cheap today it wouldn't cost much for Amazon to make this option available.
With server hard disk storage being dirt-cheap today it wouldn't cost much for Amazon to make this option available.
^^ I think AAC would be nice, although to me, the 256kbps MP3s are acceptable as they are....
I bumped, however, to mention my pleasure... I purchased Fur and Gold by Bat for Lashes yesterday, quite accepting the $7.99 album price, and when I got billed today, Amazon mysteriously took $3 off the price and sold it to me for $4.99 instead....
I bumped, however, to mention my pleasure... I purchased Fur and Gold by Bat for Lashes yesterday, quite accepting the $7.99 album price, and when I got billed today, Amazon mysteriously took $3 off the price and sold it to me for $4.99 instead....
If you are on Twitter, there is AmazonMP3, and they tweet the album sale of the day. I found out about U2 18SINGLES on sale for $3.99 the other day that way.
I purchased Fur and Gold by Bat for Lashes yesterday, quite accepting the $7.99 album price, and when I got billed today, Amazon mysteriously took $3 off the price and sold it to me for $4.99 instead....
Amazon gave $3 MP3 credits to holiday shoppers. I don't know if there was a threshold one had to reach to receive the credit, but you should have gotten an e-mail about it.
RTW
I have only purchased one album on Amazon and now I am about to purchase one single song. This same album is available on iTunes for the same price, but I can't buy the one song on iTunes, it says album only
I don't know the whole CD and I only heard the one song that I like a few days ago on XM. Apple has got to get rid of the album only restriction. I'm sure they lose allot of sales that way.
The band is Yo La Tengo and the song is Pass the hatchet, I think I'm goodkind.
I don't know the whole CD and I only heard the one song that I like a few days ago on XM. Apple has got to get rid of the album only restriction. I'm sure they lose allot of sales that way.
The band is Yo La Tengo and the song is Pass the hatchet, I think I'm goodkind.
Thats not Apple's call. Thats due to the agreements that Apple has to abide to by the content owners. Lots of artists (Jay-z being one of them) will only sell their content as album only since they believe their songs should bot be able to be sold individually as an artistic piece. Other people restrict the premium content to album only because they are jackasses and know that the remainder of their content is crap won't sell on it's own merits.
If it were up to Apple, all content could be sold individually, but since they do not own the actual content, they can't (Apple is just a distributor)
Some artists are also full of #%@^. Somehow it's OK to listen to on the radio one song at a time, but purchasing just one is a sin. AC/DC is another punk group like that.
I really like the Amazon mp3 store. For the last year, I've probably purchased 90% of my music through them (though granted, I haven't purchased a ton). It's not as easy to navigate, but I never browse the stores...I have something specific I'm looking for, and Amazon is fine for that.
Their daily deals are great, too.
Their daily deals are great, too.