Pay Per Download MP3 Sites

[eskimo2]

My wife wants a simple cheap MP3 download site/service.  She tried Walmart.com but got weird error messages.   I can find a zillion sites out there, but I want an endorsement.

[AKIron]

Walmart and itunes are all I've used. I'd avoid the p2p like the plague they can be.

[Hajo]

I use Napster.  9 Dollars a month however some tunes cost 99 cents to downlaod.  They are few in number.  I have about 6 hours of music and only paid 99 cents once for a download.

[KONG1]

emusic

[x0847Marine]

Originally posted by eskimo2
My wife wants a simple cheap MP3 download site/service.  She tried Walmart.com but got weird error messages.   I can find a zillion sites out there, but I want an endorsement.

I have had rhapsody for about a year, all the music you can download, with some restrictions, for $9.99 month. Songs are .89 ea to buy.

The software from Real blows.. but Winamp & WMP will play DRM rhapsody files. The only way to enjoy the DRM music on the go without buying every track, it to get an ipod like thing for $109, a "Sandisk - Sansa e250R 2GB" .. with one of these players its literally all the music you can eat for $9.99.

http://www.rhapsody.com/home.html

I like; if every downloaded track goes *poof* due to hardware failure, just re-download them. I can download & preview as many albums / tracks as I want, full length.

The best part so far, when my posse rolls through and we party, its like an unlimited jukebox.. we can search & listen to as many obscure / B side tracks as we can find, or import party playlists made by others.

[lasersailor184]

That is the trick.  Most of these programs will allow you to download songs, but are they really downloaded if you can't do much with them?

My school had Napster as a student service.  It's not bad, it could probably play for free 90% of all music it had.  Most of the new stuff only had 30 second clips that you could hear.

It wasn't too bad of a service considering I didn't have to (directly) pay for it.  Good quality internet radio in which I could pick the music and play most anywhere I could download Napster onto the computer.  However, for the actual cost, plus music cost, I wouldn't do it.

[wooley]

You've two choices:

ITunes and IPod. This is the slickest set-up with huge choice and it all works really well. Unfortunately it restricts you to pay-per-download only. Apple stuff has its critics, but generally speaking it works and works well.

Rhapsody, Napster, Urge or any one of the other Windows Media based services. These offer almost as much choice as ITunes and the same pay-per-download option. Importantly, these also offer subscription services which, for a flat fee of about $9 per month, allow you to download and play as much music as you want from a small number of 'authorized' computers. You cannot burn these tracks to CD, but for $15 or so, you can transfer them to a compatible MP3 player. This, to me, makes loads of sense. But I should say I've had a number of compatibility problems between the services and MP3 players.

At the moment, I'm torn between the two options. I have an Urge subscription, but I love the way my IPod just works. If Apple ever introduce a subscription service, it'll be a no brainer. But given they have 95% of the market with the more lucrative pay-per-download option, I'm not holding my breath.

[ForrestS]

Originally posted by AKIron
Walmart and itunes are all I've used. I'd avoid the p2p like the plague they can be.

Yep ur right they can be a pain with all the ad-ware they give you.

I dont even think there trying to sell anything anymore, there just trying to get you to buy a "spware remover"

[Mr No Name]

emusic sucks, they have a lot of music that isnt by the original artist or is a bad studio take.  I tried them for a month... awful, but cheap.

I dont buy from walmart because they censor the music.

Try napster or some other service.

[Skuzzy]

The discussion of how to violate copyright law is not going to be tolerated.

[Nilsen]

Nothing beats having the CD, but in cases were only one or afew songs on a CD is good and the rest is rubish iTunes is good enough.