Amazon vs. Apple for music
- From: Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:27:05 -0800
Anyone else tried Amazon.com MP3 downloads? iTunes has more songs, but
Amazon has more DRM-free songs.
iTunes is more convenient, but only slightly more. Amazon provides a
little download application you use. When you checkout after
purchasing, you get a small file to download. You then open that with
the downloader, and it goes and gets your purchases. It puts them in
your iTunes library, and they have the album art. Functionally, the
only difference I've noticed in iTunes after the songs are put in the
library is that they don't show up in the "Purchased" automatic
playlist, for obvious reasons.
iTunes search is a little more convenient, because of the way it shows
suggestions as you type a song or artist name.
However, Amazon has one big advantage over iTunes: it is friendlier to
those of us who have iPhones! Given a song available from both, even
one without DRM from Apple, you can easily use Garageband to turn an
Amazon purchase into a ringtone. Garageband won't let you do that with
the song from iTunes.
My conclusion: for me, this gives Amazon the win. Here are the cases
for me:
1. Both have, Apple has DRM:
I'll buy from Amazon to avoid DRM.
2. Both have, Apple does not have DRM:
I'll buy from Amazon, so that if I want to use part of the
song as a ringtone, it won't be another $0.99.
3. Only Amazon has:
Buy from Amazon.
4. Only Apple has:
Buy from Apple, but I might delay a while, to see if Amazon
get the song.
It's funny--if I didn't have an iPhone, I'd probably prefer, for
DRM-free songs that are carried on both, to buy from iTunes.
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--Tim Smith
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