recommendations for pay music site

[schmosef]

Hi Gang,

What's a good site or service for buying music online?

I need to be able to download it in a format that will allow me to burn it on CD.

Thanks.

[az]

Mass-market music? iTunes Music Store, I guess (I think the downloaded files are DRMed, but can be converted).

I like the idea behind www.magnatune.com

AZ

[Kooldino]

Anything can be converted to a WAV, AFAIK...

I'd like to find a pay site that I could get non-DRM mp3s from (of artists I know and love)

[Wombat]

allofmp3.com, a Russian site in a legal gray area.

[UtwigMU]

Majority of online music ofers compressed music in less than CD quality.

Once your drive dies and/or you loose your licences, you have to rebuy them.

I'd just buy used or new CDs and rip them.

[Kruzin]

Originally posted by UtwigMU
I'd just buy used or new CDs and rip them.

Yup. That's what I been doin lately. Go to the used disk store, pick up CDs for 4-8 bux, rip em, sell em back for 2-4 bux. For the price of a few songs on-line, I get whole albums....

[schmosef]

Well one of the songs I was asked to get is only available online. It's the Mary J. Blige cover of "Best of My Love" that she did for a GAP ad. This woman, who's a secretary for one of my customers, was telling me today how her toddler gets up and dances whenever the commercial comes on and wanted to know if I could get her a recording of the song.

Some other people chirped in with their requests.

I had to split the purchase between iTunes and Napster lite because iTunes didn't have all the song. iTunes US did but not iTunes Canada.

Anyway I used iTunes to burn a CD of the songs I bought from them and I did the same with Napster. Then I riped both CDs to wav files and burned them back onto a sigle compilation CD.

I expect that there's software out there to convert iTunes format into something I could have used without having to first burn the songs to CD but I didn't have time to do the research.

Thanks for the info and advice guys.

[Wombat]

Yes, there is. It's called <A HREF="http://hymn-project.org/">hymn</A>.