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["Lyman Green" <lymang AT gmail.com>]

If you have an MP3 player that only plays MP3's, you have a few choices, but I will tell you, almost all of them at the very least strongly suggest if not require that you use a "downloader" for their files.

Amazon.com (already mentioned by Tarus and David) provides DRM-free MP3 music files
I believe they actually require you use their downloader.  Once you have the files you may move them as you see fit, synch them as you see fit.  Amazon sells individual tracks, but I have to say it's a MUCH better deal most of the time to buy the whole album.

Emusic.com provides DRM-free MP3 music and audio books.  I don't think they sell singles though, they offer a monthly subscription rate (varying plans) and you can use credits to download whatever you see fit.  You have to use their downloader.

A lot of individual bands are selling MP3's minus DRM.  Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, They Might Be Giants, and others have all offered downloads from their sites, and often with no downloader.

Lyman

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 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

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