Amazon.co.uk opens digital music service

As per title, Amazon have finally got around to bringing this over here

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/amaz ... /#comments

3 million songs from 59pence each or £3 for an album and all of it DRM free.

iTunes am fail. Now I might actually start buying music again.

Festive Exception wrote:iTunes am fail. Now I might actually start buying music again.

OFT.

I could buy lunch with £3 though.

Santa Nan wrote:
Festive Exception wrote:iTunes am fail. Now I might actually start buying music again.

OFT.

bigcheez2k3 wrote:I could buy lunch with £3 though.

It's not like you need to eat every day.

Hexxmas wrote:
Santa Nan wrote:
Festive Exception wrote:iTunes am fail. Now I might actually start buying music again.

OFT.

Quoted for Truth

Maybe you guys don't use that one, I see it a lot on mainly yank inhabited forums.

Good to see some competition. I take it The Beatles will be releasing all their stuff on this, for as far as I can recall they are still refusing to allow any of their stuff on iTunes store? x

Wow, I was expecting the £3 albums to be awful but they're suprsingly good

Santa Nan wrote:
bigcheez2k3 wrote:I could buy lunch with £3 though.

It's not like you need to eat every day.

Hexxmas wrote:
Santa Nan wrote:
Festive Exception wrote:iTunes am fail. Now I might actually start buying music again.

OFT.

Quoted for Truth

Maybe you guys don't use that one, I see it a lot on mainly yank inhabited forums.

You've written OFT though.

Santa Nan wrote:
bigcheez2k3 wrote:I could buy lunch with £3 though.

It's not like you need to eat every day.

Hexxmas wrote:
Santa Nan wrote:
Festive Exception wrote:iTunes am fail. Now I might actually start buying music again.

OFT.

Quoted for Truth

Maybe you guys don't use that one, I see it a lot on mainly yank inhabited forums.

I got confused too, I know QFT is quoted for truth, but that typo made me think I was missing something.

ME AM

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So, what's the catch?

Oxxing Day wrote:So, what's the catch?

Amazon gets your soul instead of Jobs, it's a tough decision to make.

Wow!!!

That's the price I like.

Ah well, iTunes had a good run for me personally. Once I've spent the remaining £10 or so I've got in my iTunes account (someone gave me one of those cards as a gift) I'll start buying stuff from Amazon.

EDIT - On closer inspection pricing is very much variable (some being the same as iTunes for single tracks especially) but it's worth it for the lack of DRM.

I was originally going to download some songs from iTunes but I didn't know at the time that they were in AAC format, which my MP3 player doesn't support. I might consider downloading some from Amazon since they're in MP3 format, and also slightly cheaper.

If the song on iTunes is iTunes Plus (which most are now) it's DRM free and in M4A (I think).

Dodems wrote:If the song on iTunes is iTunes Plus (which most are now) it's DRM free and in M4A (I think).

Isn't M4a and AAC pretty much the same thing?

M4A would be a good format if it was supported. Amazon is good old MP3, not brilliant, not bad, but supported by pretty much anything.

I just converted the albums I bought into MP3, they sound exactly the same and work fine on my Zen so I'm not complaining.

Amazon.co.uk opens digital music service

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