Hi Carol.
Of course, there is also Napster where for a subscription you can get
all the music you want on your computer and for a little extra on
your mp3 player. These can be converted from their original
protected WMA file format to mp3 using something like Sound Taxi. If
you want to go all morel and buy the tracks, you can download them
from napster in MP3 format which you only get when you've bought
them. The advantage of buying of course is that you get the higher
quality from Napster of 256K rather than the 128K they give to
subscription only downloads.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 7:15 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: MP3'S FROM PLAY.COM
Hi Carol,
If you buy from Play, you can't download again if you lose them, so
back them up.
If you buy from iTunes, then you can always re-download, but they
are not MP3 files, but higher quality. They use Flac files which
are M4A. These can be played with Winamp or Windows Media Player,
if you download the right
plugin for Windows Media Player.
There are other companies like 7DigitalMedia
http://www.7digitalmedia.com that sell them in MP3 format, and you
can re-download from them too. Most stores sell in MP3 or protected WMA
formats. Apple sell in M4A
and M4V
for video. These can be converted to MP3 if they are not
DRM-protected. Apple is removing DRM from their stuff, so I am
beginning to like iTunes. All the best
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
Carol Pearson
Sent: Saturday 24 January 2009 18:11
To: Access UK Mailing List
Subject: [access-uk] MP3'S FROM PLAY.COM
I'm thinking of switching to purchasing MP3's instead of CD's and so
here are some questions ...
As always, I apologise that I didn't follow the thread when it was
last discussed. Anyway, here are my questions:
Are MP3's available in various sampling rates etc., and can you buy
individual tracks from CD's, or do you have to buy the whole CD
where a CD is listed rather than a single track? Are they all .WAV
format and, if you
lose them, can you get them again without charge?
--
Carol
carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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