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Buy.Com Debuts Music Download Site
elucidus writes "Buy.com on Tuesday launched a new digital music download service -- the site, BuyMusic.com, offers a catalog of more than 300,000 songs. The site only loads in Internet Explorer and all the files are Windows Media 9 formatted with DRM. No word yet on whether the public announcement of a supposed gaping hole in Windows Media DRM caused any concern before the launch. Compatible players include the Nomad IIc 9 and Creative's Jukebox Zen."
hope you have IE or you won't get into the site. and of course you'll need WMP 9 in order to actually listen to the music.
:)
the price seems to be right (lower that iTMS!), but for someone like me who is terribly averse to IE and considers WMP to be akin to a virus, this is not an enticing service. 'course with the sheer volume of windows users who aren't like me, buy.com might be onto something. they've beaten apple to the punch as far as the windows platform goes.
and since i got turned away from the site for not using IE and got so disgusted that i left, i don't know what kind of restrictions besides WMP 9 they have put on the music (burn songs to cd? share with others? etc.).
oh well, good thing i have a Mac
Thank you for visiting BuyMusic.com.
In order to take full advantage of BuyMusic.com's offerings you must be on a Windows Operating System using Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher.
Dear Buymusic.com: Thank you for turning away my buisness, Im sure one of your competitors *COUGH* itunes *COUGH* Would be happy to take it.
The ads on BuyMusic are complete rip offs of the Apple ads. Compare the original Apple iPod ads to the new BuyMusic ads.
At least they could do something original!
No thanks, I'll stick with my iMac and iTunes store, thanks...
Damn those Microsoft-loving bastards, making their music site only support one platform.
Gossip Folks by Missy Elliott for $1.79.