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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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Amazon MP3 Store
Amazon released their digital music store earlier this week and from all reports it looks to be very competitive with iTunes. You can browse the store without an account (a big problem with earlier competitors is that you couldn't see what they had to offer without signing up for an account); their software will automatically add your purchased songs, at least if you buy the entire album, into iTunes; their songs are encoded at 256kb and are DRM free; and they appear to be the same price or, in most cases, cheaper than the same songs on iTunes. Certainly Apple offers nearly three times the selection that Amazon offers (6 million songs versus 2 million), but given Amazon's prices, you'd be foolish not to look there first when looking to buy digital music.
However, Amazon does not seem to be immune to Apple's influence. Their site is currently listing 1234 by Feist as both the #1 and #7 selection in Today's Top MP3 Songs. This is amusing only because 1234 is the song that Apple is giving a lot of air play to in their new iPod Nano ads.
Posted by on 27 September 2007 at 11:35 AM
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