Comments on: Audiobubble Music Store

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 26 May 2006 13:46:51 +0000

Peer Impact also sells MP3s

But they also sell DRMed Tunes as well as protected games and soon time bombed movies for rent .

By: Marcus

Marcus — Wed, 17 May 2006 17:39:35 +0000

Another DRM-free music store with a new approach to online music sales is the Potato System from the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany (the guys who first invented MP3 compression). I’m not sure how well it is represented internationally.
It’s based on the concept that everyone who buys music may redistribute the music on their own webpage and thus participate in those revenues (like a snowball system, except that it’s potatoes this time ).

By: Hailo

Hailo — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:01:34 +0000

I’ve got to say thanks for the list of sites, I’ll keep those in mind. I’ve also got to toss my thoughts in about allofmp3.com, which I’ve been using for about two years now. I’ll admit originally I was worried about handing my CC data over to a Russian company, but (besides the fact I used a one time CC number and they use a third-party to handle transactions) I’ve never had any issue with them. Their download speeds are a little slow (20-40KBps) and their official client is Windows only (web interface available but clunky), but their catalog is huge. Well worth checking out.

By: running

running — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:34:39 +0000

i have heard that allofmp3 is not very legal, it is in Russia and no money from it goes to artist – so why buy it there? i like also http://www.emusic.com and http://www.mp3tunes.com/store.php

By: John

John — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:51:22 +0000

http://www.BeatPick.com is offering a fair trade model with a good service too.
1. no DRM 2. listen to entire albums for free 3. good music. 4. download WAV, mp3, OGG 5. share music once you buy.

By: Sash

Sash — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:35:06 +0000

For 0.25$ a track in MP3 (=No DRM) – especially for world music fans – I use http://www.emusic.com

By: Kai

Kai — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:47:18 +0000

Not to forget:
http://calabashmusic.com/
the world’s best world music site. There is even a free download every week.

By: kozen

kozen — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 03:06:05 +0000

It is clear that DRM secured content is against the user because it restricts you using it wherever you want.

All shops using/selling DRM-free stuff are 1000 times better than iTunes, Musicload, etc.

(Just wanted to bring all our thoughts to one point and stick here – forever!)

By: JD

JD — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:18:22 +0000

As a note, you don’t actually need to have a Paypal account to pay, you just need a credit card to pay through them. If you don’t trust Paypal with that information, THEN you’re out of luck.

By: Coderjoe

Coderjoe — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:06:30 +0000

Magnatune also has a wonderful service. Since I have a problem with describing them adiquitely, here is what they say on their front page:

We're a record label. But we're not evil. We call it "try before you buy." It's the shareware model applied to music. Listen to over 500 complete MP3 albums by our musicians (not 30 second snippets). If you like what you hear, download an album for as little as $5 (you pick the price), or buy a real CD, or license our music for commercial use. There is no copy protection (DRM) on our music, ever. Artists keep half of every purchase. And unlike most record labels, they keep all the rights to their music.