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Amazon Plans Music Service To Rival iPod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bringing-the-star-destroyers-around-for-a-broadside dept.

theodp writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is in advanced talks with the four global music companies about a digital-music service that could be launched as soon as this summer. It would feature Amazon-branded portable music players, designed and built for the retailer, and a subscription service that would deeply discount and preload those devices with songs."

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  1. Re:iPod and iTunes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    masuhasuahsuhuashuashuashsuamasuhasamuhasuhas TEH l33t

  2. Re:Headline by ucahg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which they are.

  3. Re:Enough by cruiserparts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I agree. Kill me already.

  4. eMusic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Doesn't matter. I won't give them anything. eMusic gets my money. Unencumbered VBR MP3s of most of my favorite bands are around 25 cents apiece. It's nice to support bands that actually want their music to be heard and labels that don't assume that users==criminals.

    Seriously, if you even have a slight inclination towards indie music, you *need* to check it out.

  5. allofmp3.com by TheGratefulNet · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NO DRM, cheap music, quality encodings (you get to pick!).

    yes, the artist gets paid. probably as much as the ipod people get (ie, very little; its all just talk on the execs' part).

    I will NEVER buy drm music. never.

    I tried an ipod recently. I had non DRM files that I wanted copied to it. fine. then I wanted to move them from the nano to the shuffle. no go. not with apple tools. these are MY files. I could have recorded them myself and apple would STILL refuse to let files copy between devices. they insist it goes only 1 way.

    no politics in my music. at least not my music FORMAT, please!

    (fwiw, I just bought a new mp3/drive/photo device. I wrote up a small article on upgrading its drive. its called the 'wolverine' and its a great sounding (and NO DRM!) player. here's the link (remove any embedded spaces in the URL to visit):

    http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/ readflat.asp?forum=1023 &thread=17204039

    (I'm the linux-works guy in that forum).

    apple or other drm: you have to run 'import' programs to copy files.
    non-drm players: you mount the drive and copy files using dos, windows, linux, freebsd, etc.

    the choice is obvious, I think.

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