I Do Not Like DRM
…so when I heard about Amazon’s new DRM free music, I jumped right onto their site and downloaded a song to test it out (and vote with my wallet). My music choice was Coldplay’s Speed of Sound. Shopping was a breeze, the download was pretty quick, and the music played on both my laptop in Windows Media Player and on my UMPC in iTunes - AWESOME!
One problem: The file size of the download was 9.26 MB since the file was encoded at 266 Kbps. My music collection consists of 829 songs for 3.68 GB making the average song 4.44 MB. I might decide to downsample my new purchase to save disk space (because heaven knows I can’t hear the difference between 192 kbps and 266 kbps).
September 25th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Amazon MP3 downloads are awesome. No DRM, cheap ($0.89-$0.99 for a single, discounts for the whole album, etc.), plus OneClick purchasing (dangerous!), and the whole WMP and iTunes integratsion.
All I know is that I’ve spent more money buying songs from Amazon tonight than I have from iTunes in the last six months…
It’s like they have a license to open up my wallet and hoover the money out! I thought only Steve Jobs could do that!