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I don't think Amazon MP3 will be putting the iTunes Store out of business by any stretch of the imagination. Ordering via Amazon MP3 isn't as easy as from the iTunes Store, but it's not far off. People do not like creating new accounts for shopping, but there's no question that some people shop from Amazon over other venues purely because it's such a known quantity after years of easy ordering. I don't have a sense for how price-conscious the online music market really is, but with many tracks priced below even the cost of Apple's DRM-encumbered tracks, and albums priced even lower, I could see budget-driven consumers or those who buy a lot of music preferring to purchase from Amazon MP3 over the iTunes Store.ДЎ-Click shopping.

Thanks to the lack of DRM, and in particular, Windows-specific DRM, songs purchased from Amazon MP3 will play on an iPod, something that has never been true for a mainstream online music retailer (other than Apple) before. Hopefully Amazon's move will give Apple some leverage with the music labels to make more DRM-free tracks available. No consumer likes DRM, and although Apple hasn't yet released any statistics on how the DRM-free tracks from EMI have sold in comparison with the DRM-encumbered versions of the same tracks, Amazon has done the right thing by eliminating it across the board. MP3, encoded at a 256 kbps variable bit rateД®ncoded as AAC files with a bit rate of 128 kbpsДownload a small companion program (works in Windows and Mac), you can reproduceД«uy a song with one click, it's integrated into your music player(you never have to fiddle with files on your hard drive to get the songs into your iPod)Д®verything is unrestricted, everything will word for everД¬opy-protection scheme (put your songs on just five computers at a time make only seven CD copies of a particular playlist), DRM protectedДЄmazon MP3 is the first online music store that hasn't left me cold. The metadata was complete and album artwork was either included or picked up automatically by iTunes. Sound quality was certainly fine to my ears, though I'm no audio connoisseur.

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Songs I purchased were encoded at between 208 Kbps and 256 Kbps using variable bit-rate (VBR) encoding, and the free sample song was encoded at 280 Kbps VBR. Once opened in Amazon MP3 Downloader, the song was downloaded to an Amazon MP3 folder in the Music folder and then sent over to iTunes, which, at least on my machine, means that it was duplicated, since I keep my iTunes Music folder on a server for shared usage.

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I believe the Amazon MP3 Downloader was supposed to open it and download the actual song, but I had to double-click the file manually, likely because Amazon wasn't expecting that I'd be using a browser other than Safari (I generally rely on OmniWeb). Clicking a Buy button on the Amazon Web site downloaded a document to my Desktop. In my testing, the Amazon MP3 Downloader worked acceptably, but it was a distinctly clumsier experience than purchasing from iTunes.

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Individual tracks can be purchased directly from a Web page, but to buy an album, you must first download and install the Amazon MP3 Downloader, available for both Mac OS X and Windows (a 615K download for the Mac version). Because Amazon is using MP3 and avoiding DRM entirely, songs purchased from Amazon MP3 are playable on any device, including the iPhone and iPods, along with Macs, PCs, and music players from other manufacturers.

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Most albums in Amazon MP3 are priced between $5.99 and $9.99, again a bit cheaper than albums in the iTunes Store, which generally check in at $9.99.ДЄll songs in Amazon MP3 are encoded at 256 Kbps, which is comparable to iTunes Plus songs, although in theory, the iTunes Plus AAC format could provide better quality than the MP3 format used by Amazon.

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In comparison, Apple says the iTunes Store now contains over 6 million songs.ДЄccording to Amazon's press release, most of Amazon MP3's songs are priced between $0.89 and $0.99, with more than 1 million songs in the current catalog available at $0.89, a full $0.40 less than Apple's iTunes Plus songs. has launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, a digital music store that provides DRM-free downloads of over 2 million songs from 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels.