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everybody opens a music store
none of which are good!!!
hence why itunes is doing so well

I hope they get it DRM Free....If not, its just another store.

quote "MP3" , theres no mp3 drm, so obviously, its drm free, and they announced this a while ago as a press release, well it was more of an announcement for plans for the future. a million tracks aint bad for DRM FREE mp3 songs, and knowing amazon, im betting that there collection will grow seeing how huge of an online retailer they're.

I hope that the tracks are available at good bitrates...at least 192 kbps, or hopefully 256 kbps, or ultimately a higher-bitrate VBR. My biggest problem with the online music merchants, other than DRM of course, is the mediocre bitrate offered. I don't understand why the record industry expects people to happily spend as much (and sometimes more) for a digital download with sub-standard sound-quality and no album artwork or packaging vs. getting a physical CD that has no DRM restrictions, no data-compression, and full artwork.

Since there are no manufacturing costs, aren't digital downloads much cheaper to produce? This simply proves that the RIAA is just plain greedy. And it also explains why sites like Allofmp3 continue to do well. Allofmp3 offers affordable downloads with a great selection, no DRM, and selectable codecs and data rates. Yes, I know that the site is frowned upon in the US and much of the world. But if the music industry were to wake up and embrace the same business plan that allofmp3 has, albiet with somewhat higher costs so that the artists DO get paid, sales would EXPLODE! Legal sales would skyrocket!! Everyone would make money! And the future of the record industry could be saved!!

Someday, maybe the old greedy suits at the RIAA will retire and a new generation of music lovers and business people will become in charge....and they'll get it.

It clearly says that they won't have DRM.

"Music from Universal Music Group, EMI, and a large number of independent labels will be available through the service, but Sony BMG and Warner Music Group will be absent from the party, due to Amazon's reluctance to use DRM technology"

they'll possibly join in the future, if not, too bad. Didn't iTunes sales increase dramatically BECAUSE of the DRM free files?

That's been my whole problem with paying to download music, DRM. I didn't want to be stuck either using only a certain program or not able to play the music I bought where I want to listen to it. Plus as mentioned you get nothing except a file for your money when downloading and it isn't always going to be in a high enough bitrate to make it worthwhile.

I'm encouraged by what is happened. I tried emusic which was very good, just unfortunately hardly anyone I knew or wanted.

Does anyone know how well Yahoo! is doing in the music-selling business? With their extensive library offered on LaunchCAST (where you can purchase individual songs) I'm very surprised they haven't captured more market share from Apple. Personally I see huge potential here.