Amazon to sell DRM-free MP3 Downloads

[jackofallgeeks]

This may be worth noting. I'll keep my eyes open and let you know what comes of it. It comes down to competitive pricing, I think: iTunes is already offering DRM-free songs at a higher quality and correspondingly higher price -- generally, most people donm't care if the track is 128kbps or 320kbps, so whatever they say we're paying extra for DRM-free music. I think that Amazon could get away with lower-bitrate songs at a lower cost and beat out iTunes. Or they could play the same game and see how much people can be pressed for; the problem is, if it's no better for me to buy DRM-free from Amazon than from iTunes, why would I switch from the service I'm already using?

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[quix.livejournal.com]

I use RealPlayer on my PDA, so the iTunes/Quicktime-codec doesn't work for me, and plus I have a large fondness for the MP3-codec. If this pans out, they'll have a customer from me, quick/fast/and in a hurry.