Online Music Stores Compared

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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 5, 2005 @12:07AM from the addictions-i-have-managed-to-avoid dept.

prostoalex writes "DesignTechnica has a comparison of the leading online music stores. With the variety of services available they only concentrated on several top ones. Conclusion? 'If you simply want to download music from the charts, then Yahoo and Wal-Mart are your cheapest options. For your MP3 player, there are several options, with Yahoo the best of all. If you're an iPod owner... then you're stuck with iTunes.'"

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Oh no! by kukickface · 2005-10-05 00:13 · Score: 5, Funny

A mass suicide of iPod owners has been reported on the eve that they discovered they were "stuck" with iTunes.
Are iPod owners idiots? by Mr.+Underbridge · 2005-10-05 00:27 · Score: 4, Funny

f you're an iPod owner... then you're stuck with iTunes.'"
Right, because I'm such a moron that I can't figure out how to get an mp3 onto my iPod.
Re:"Stuck" with iTunes? by 91degrees · 2005-10-05 00:34 · Score: 3, Funny

I said something similar in a slashdot post back in 1976.

"As a betamax owner, I don't feel "stuck" with Betamax. I find my Sony player is considerably better than any of the recently released VHS players and Beta is currently considerably more popular"
Piratebay by RasendeRutje · 2005-10-05 00:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Where's thepiratebay.org in the comparison? They have the biggest selection, DRM free, for the lowest price! (free, as in free beer)

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If Microsoft was mass, stupidity would be gravity.
Re:Stuck, huh? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-05 01:25 · Score: 1, Funny

Last time I checked, software had no mass :P
Re:Stuck, huh? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-05 02:32 · Score: 1, Funny

You never wrote software for money? The weight of paper going into documentation can be quite heavy, e.g. steering-software for airplanes.