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["Vanja Sudar" <vanja@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry I'm very late on this, but isn't the Amazon download service 
unfortunately only available to US citizens?
Vanja
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kevin Lloyd 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 8:37 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: online music stores


  Hi Adrian.

  The new download service from Amazon sounds very good.  Downloads are 
available in MP3 in variable bitrates averaging around the 256 kbps mark.  You 
can download whole albums at once using the download manager which is 
completely accessible.  Don't know how competetively priced it is as I've 
picked up this info from another list and haven't yet had chance to try myself.

  Regards.

  Kevin
  E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Adrian Higginbotham 
    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:30 AM
    Subject: [access-uk] online music stores


    Can anyone recommend any Websites for purchasing mp3 albums?  I just about 
worked myself around to tring out all of mp3 when it was closed down, nervous 
about giving my credit card details to the russian mafia I'm not keen to try 
out mp3sparks but would prefer a service which lets me credit my accounts via a 
more trust worthy 3rd party.  E-music doesn't seem very screenreader friendly, 
legal sounds seems good but I couldn't find a way to credit an account from the 
UK, the only european agent rejected my card and some reading around on the Web 
suggested that most banks don't let you pay legal-sounds without first 
authorising the payment over hte phone because of the risky nature of the 
parent company.  They do give away one track a day free but I couldn't seem to 
download it using their download manager software which they claim is the only 
way to collect your purchased title although elseware on the site it suggest 
you can just download by right clicking titles on the site itself. also you can 
only download purchased titles once.

    I've currently settled on GoMusic as you can pay as you go or pre credit 
your account, it's easy to make payments and the interface is ok with jaws. the 
main problem I've had so far is that you seem to have to download each track 
individually rather than being able to download a whole album even though you 
purchase the album as a whole.  chart albums seem to cost between 2 and 2 and a 
half dollars.

    can anyone tell me how to download a whole album from GoMusic or recommend 
an alternative.

    Adrian Higginbotham


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