Audio Lunchbox: Music with no DRM

An anonymous reader writes "MacCentral just posted an article on Audio Lunchbox, an online music store dedicated to music by independent artists and labels. ALB offers all of its music in DRM free MP3 (192 kbps) and Ogg Vorbis (Q6) formats with iTunes style pricing and a completely web based and platform independent delivery system."

Comments

Re:$0.99 ??

[syphax]

If you want non-brand-name music for $0.25 a song, try http://www.emusic.com, which offers 40 songs for $10 a month. It used to be unlimited, but they cut back awhile ago.

You have to hunt for the good stuff, but overall, Emusic isn't bad. No DRM, either.

Re:It had to happen sooner or later

[niko9]

Here use this link to be sure. RIAA Radar

You can be sure that the music you purcase doesn't support the RIAA efforts.

Magnatune

[cain]

Here is another service along the same lines and even less evil: Magnatune, "we are not evil." Pay as much as you want (within reason, natch'). There is not a huge selection yet, but maybe if more peeps start buying from them....

Re:Magnatune

[Mprx]

Magnatune is great. Unlike most online music stores, they sell lossless CD quality audio (in FLAC format, or WAV if you want to waste everyone's bandwidth). The selection is steadily growing, and there is some excellent music there. All their music can be previewed in 128kbps MP3, and it's only $5 (or more if you are feeling generous) an album if you want higher quality.

HearsayMusic.ca (indie) shameless self promotion

[warren69]

Well, we only have 12 indie artists so far. Canadian indie stuff... anyway www.hearsaymusic.ca! mp3s 1 dollar Canadian (192kps)... 30 second samples (128kps). And in contrast to what indiepool (Canadian puretracks' indie thing) does, we do not charge anything to get onto the site, and encoding. We take a share of the sales.

Cheers,
Daniel

Magnatune.com is better

[kwelndar]

Open music is what Magnatune.com sells. From the site: "All songs are available in MP3, CD-quality WAV, OGG, FLAC and MP3-VBR: download whichever formats you like." The best part is you can download and audition the music, then decide what you want to pay, if anything. "Magnatune lets you choose how much you want to pay for your downloaded album. The more you choose to pay, the more the artist makes, because at Magnatune, half goes directly to the artist, while the other half supports Magnatune." They are also members of the Creative Commons.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated in any way with Magnatune.com. This is just a really cool idea whose time has come.

Re:$0.99 ??

[orthogonal]

try http://www.emusic.com, which offers 40 songs for $10 a month.

If you're already an emusic.com customer, and you find emusic.com's "My Collection" page to be a slow, tedious, pain in the ass, and you'd prefer to download to your local harddrive an HTML page showing every album you've downloaded from emusic.com with links back to each album page at emusic.com, get this free program for Windows, Mac, or linux:
Get Collection.