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Comparing Online Music Offerings

Posted by michael on from the now-with-less-gouging dept.

hype7 writes "The Wall Street Journal has just posted a comparison of the three main legal music download services: Apple's iTunes Music Store, MusicMatch and Napster v2. The review covers the pros and cons of each of the services, and concludes with: "I'm sure all three services will evolve and get better, and others will enter the fray. But, for now, iTunes is the best choice on Windows.""

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  1. 134 by computerme · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've purchased 134 songs so far from itunes. Every time I have purchased songs from them the download has been fast(i am on a DSL) and the quality is amazing..Selection is great but i wish they more stuff from the 80's.

    Now with books and personal playlists and gift certs, they have made it even better...

    the best part is that the artists get their share...whether you agree its a fair share is a different matter since apple did not write the contracts between the record companies and the artists...

    I will tell you this though... whatever they are getting from itunes is way more then they are getting from Kazaa downloads...