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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

Unless I am mistaken, the iTunes store sells songs with AAC encoding, rather
than MP3. You need iTunes to make the purchase, however, and iTunes will
convert the songs to MP3 for you.

I have bought songs from Amazon through their music service. They are sold
as MP3, though I believe they require you to install an application.

I am sure there are other options, but these are the only two I have used.

David


On 9/4/08 4:53 PM, "stan briggs" <stanbriggs AT gmail.com> wrote:

> all,
> 
> i admit that i'm a newbie at this. yeah, the kids have ipods but i got me 
> just
> a plain old mp3 player. it does the things that i want it to do.
> 
> so, my question is where do i buy mp3s? don't laugh, yet. i've checked out
> things like that iTunes store. does it offer mp3's? when i start to do
> business with other sites (SpiralFrog.com comes to mind) i start 
> experiencing
> the same thing over and over. it wants to download some application to my
> desktop. i don't want to run yet another application. i want to go to a web
> site. pay my $.99 and download a song. ... i think that my frustration is
> starting to show.
> 
> so, who has favorite sites to which i can go and buy mp3's without another
> application getting in the way?
> 
> thanks,
> stan