For People That Still Buy Their Music

[simplegreen]

"Microsoft has opened their online music store today with 1 million songs and it will be officially opened tomorrow when Windows Media Player 10 is released. Music costs $0.99 and $9.90 for albums ($0.09 less than iTunes). Also, music is at a higher quality - 160kbps VBR. You can browse the site with Mozilla, however, ActiveX is required for full functionality so IE is required to use the store. Also, Microsoft takes a hit at Apple for not licensing iPod functionality to third parties (kind of ironic when ActiveX is required to use the site).... If you are an iPod owner already and unhappy about this policy, you are welcome to send feedback to Apple requesting that they change their interoperability policy."

[cacmasta]

sweet. but are the songs going to be in some weird format like itunes or will they be mp3 format? cause it really sucks that i can only listen to the songs i downloaded from itunes on the specific computer i used. mp4 sucks

[B18bEK]

I guess it?s a good alternative to all the pirating and bootlegging I do in my basement.

[Calesta]

Screw that, I'll still buy the real CDs and encode my own stuff. I don't want someone else's half sampled crap, even if it is "official".

[Smooth_Imports]

Originally posted by Calesta@Sep 2 2004, 11:35 AM
Screw that, I'll still buy the real CDs and encode my own stuff.* I don't want someone else's half sampled crap, even if it is "official".

[cynosurecivic]

yeah paying to download music sounds like a good and honest thing to do. but who cares. if its for free its for me.

i still buy the albums of the bands i really like though.

[oompahlumpa]

Originally posted by cynosurecivic@Sep 2 2004, 01:10 PM
who cares. if its for free its for me.