I’ve heard people talk about how great Amazon’s MP3 store is, and honestly, I haven’t really cared. I have two problems with it. First, call me old school, but I like physical media. Second, it’s interface isn’t as nice as iTunes. You don’t even have to leave the program that plays all of your music to find, preview and buy more with iTunes. Good news; one of those problems has been fixed by Advantageous mp3.
Advantageous mp3 is a script that you add to iTunes. When browsing the iTunes store for some great new tunes, it can help. Once you find a song you actually want to buy, just highlight it, and run the script by clicking Get MP3 From Amazon. Advantageous mp3 does the rest.
There are a number of great reasons to use this script. Amazon’s MP3s are of better quality than iTunes’ 99 cent standard songs, and they’re DRM-free, which is the biggest reason to buy from them. This script also fixes the interface of Amazon. Amazon is great, but it’s so easy to search right in iTunes and get a preview of songs without leaving the app.
I have a confession. I never buy music from the iTunes store. Actually, I never buy downloadable music. Like I said, I might be old school, but I need to have a physical copy of my media. As a result, I buy all of my music in CD form, often from Half.com. But I still use iTunes to preview songs before buying them. Its interface is perfect; it’s simple, and it works. The 30 second previews are often enough to judge if a CD is worth purchasing. That said, this script has the best potential of anything to convert me over to download only music.
I’d like to know what you think. Do you buy music online from iTunes or Amazon or are you like me and need a real CD in case your hard drive dies?
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Depends upon the album for me. There are many bands who warrant the purchase of an entire album. But if I just want a couple songs to round out a playlist or want a song or two off a soundtrack, iTunes is the way to go.
^Same thing here. I only buy phyical CD albums when I feel that the entire album is good. Otherwise I just buy the individual song(s) off of iTunes.
I think you guys are misinterpreting the post. This script finds you the downloadable MP3 at Amazon (which is cheaper and DRM-free). This post isn't instructing you to buy the physical CD instead of getting the track on iTunes.
I would like to offer another suggest. I realize the purpose of this post is to point out the availability and ease of use of this script for finding music across download stores, but I have been trying (and loving) lala.com. It used to be a CD trading site, but they now focus on digital downloads. The tracks are $.89, DRM-free, 256kbps MP3s. They offer most albums for $7.49. They have a really cool web-based library feature that scans and uploads MP3s you already have for listening anywhere you can access their web site. You are allowed one full listen of any and all tracks or you can buy the track for online listening only for $.10. Sorry this sounds like an ad, but it's a really cool store. http://www.lala.com/
Yeah, we get that Rad. It's just that no matter from where you download it, some of us would still rather buy a physical CD than an MP3 download in most cases.