Buying individual tracks online

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Haydn · #1 Post by **Haydn** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 2:37 am

I am very interested in listening to and buying the music discussed on this thread.

Does anyone know if it possible to buy these tracks online (i.e. downloading them), and if so, which service is best?

mousethief · #2 Post by **mousethief** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:38 am

Depending on what it is, I would suggest Itunes or Real Music. I never found anything on Emusic.

Kalman

Haydn · #3 Post by **Haydn** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:15 am

mousethief wrote:Depending on what it is, I would suggest Itunes or Real Music. I never found anything on Emusic.

Kalman

Do you have a website for Real Music?

Nate Dogg · #4 Post by **Nate Dogg** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:21 am

Kalman and I have a different opinion regarding viable music from eMusic.

You can get your first 50 songs for free and then pay month to month for one of the following plans. Ends up being cheaper then the dollar a song plan from iTunes. Additionally, you get very portable files from eMusic. The bit rate is also higher now than it was during the service's early years.

"eMusic has three subscription offerings:
eMusic Basic: $9.99 per month/40 downloads
eMusic Plus: $14.99 per month/65 downloads
eMusic Premium: $19.99 per month/90 downloads "

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Yakov · #5 Post by **Yakov** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:23 am

www.real.com
i think there might also be stuff on www.mp3.com

regarding track downloading in general: in general, with this stuff, it's best to get full CDs. this way, you can hear a better sampling of an artist and then decide for yourself, and find your own hidden favorites. believe it or not, the stuff we post here is but a small sampling of the tracks, artists, and CDs we like.

Nate Dogg · #6 Post by **Nate Dogg** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:43 am

For iTunes, I will pay for a song or two at 99 cents per song, if I think I will play them. The 30 second previews/song length info can often help me decide if I want to gamble on a song.

Otherwise, I like to wait and get the full CD as a real CD, assuming I like it. As opposed to buying the whole album as a download.

At least for me, there are plenty of CDs that I only want for the 1 - 3 danceable songs on them.

Nahtan

main_stem · #7 Post by **main_stem** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:43 am

iTunes Music store as well.

JohnDyer · #8 Post by **JohnDyer** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 12:35 am

I've been using Napster2.0 (pay version) quite a bit lately. You can buy individual tunes for $0.99 a piece. For an additional $10/month, you can download practically every song they have on file to your computer to listen to. I will sometimes be interested in a particular artist and download everything they have, then listen to it at my leisure. If and only if I need to burn a CD using one of those songs do I need to buy it.

The downside is that to convert back to MP3 again, you'd have to burn a CD and then rip the CD to MP3 - not sure how much quality would be lost there. But the same goes for any other pay service that uses some type of digital rights (emusic still doesn't right?)

Yakov · #9 Post by **Yakov** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 2:07 pm

there are programs out there that can strip the DRM... hymn, for instance
(google is your friend)

Haydn · #10 Post by **Haydn** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:11 am

Thanks everyone