Napster has opened their own music store to compete with Amazon and Apple. Their music store is said to boast more than 6 million songs, more than Amazon or Apple's iTunes. All files are downloadable in MP3 format and are DRM-free, which makes them compatible with most of the music players, including Apple iPod and iPhone.
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I don't understand why companies don't realize that the only reason why people use itunes music store so much is because when they plug in their ipod it's all right there automatically. Any idiot can use their store with no problems. Add that to the fact that buying music from the itunes store automatically puts it in your itunes library, and you've erased another tiny obstacle for the average idiot and/or lazy guy who would have otherwise grabbed the music for free somewhere else.
Amazon is drm free with much cheaper prices. Example 3 Doors Down newest .99 cents for the album, others I looked at starting at 6.99 for entire album.
Originally posted by tgok: I don't understand why companies don't realize that the only reason why people use itunes music store so much is because when they plug in their ipod it's all right there automatically. Any idiot can use their store with no problems. Add that to the fact that buying music from the itunes store automatically puts it in your itunes library, and you've erased another tiny obstacle for the average idiot and/or lazy guy who would have otherwise grabbed the music for free somewhere else.
that is why i never will buy an ipod, i absolutely hate itunes. terrible program, and even worse store.
someone needs to develop a media library program that just dominates and takes over. When people finally get mp3 players that dont suck, they can just drag files off a hard drive onto the removable device.
they should joint with google, and have google produce a media library software.
