Emusic Relaunches - Cheap, DRM-Free Downloads

An anonymous reader writes "Emusic.com has relaunched today. This is important for several reasons. 1) They sell MP3s. No DRM. I can play them on my Linux box or wherever. 2) They are encoding at 192Kbit/s VBR. That's near CD quality (and how I rip my own CDs). They are focusing on lesser known independent music and providing some editorial content to separate the good from the bad. I see lots of great jazz, classical, and folk/country stuff in their library. 4) Subscription rate is 9.99/month for 40 tracks. That is $0.25 a track. Much cheaper than everywhere else. It's near my pricepoint. This is the first online music store that I will seriously consider. (And actually the first that I _can_ consider since I'm a linux user.)"

Comments

DRM Free and you pick the file type, encoding, etc

[LeeInAustin]

I found this site called http://www.allofmp3.com/.

You pay $.01 per megabyte. A typical CD seems to run about one dollar.

I make no assumptions regarding how legal this is.

The site is in Russia and the credit card processor is in the US. I "charged" my account with $15 and I've downloaded about 15 CD's so far and I still have about 4 bucks left. They have EVERYTHING and you choose the file format and type of encoding. It encodes the files in real time when you order the song(s).

I'm stocking up because I assume this won't be available for long.

Full disclosure: I have no connection with the site other than as a customer.

-Lee