Well, I did it. Just for laughs I downloaded an album, Moby's "Play", I'd always been tempted but had never sprung for it. So I thought "what the heck".
The log-in and purchase were really easy (too easy maybe !!) and it was all completed in a few minutes, then the album was downloaded to my PC and showed up in iTunes. Cost £7.99
From there I just had to transfer it over to the iPod.
Impressions,
Like the iPod itself the process was really simple and iTunes can even be set up to do "one click" purchasing ie after your logged in and have provided card details the first time all you need to do after that is select the music you want to purchase and "one click" then buys and downloads it.
The album came with full tags and album art, although a couple of the songs titles were spelt wrong
Seemingly I can use this music on my iPod, 5 PC's and burn it to CD but as it's only AAC at 128kbps I don't see much point in this.
Was it worth the money ? a big no for that. While surfing play.com for some other CD's I'm after I saw the same album on CD for £5.99 ha ha ha
To be honest I was aware that CD's can be had cheaper but I just wanted to try out the music store. So that's it, I'm glad I tried it but downloading compressed music for more cash than the CD costs is not my idea of a good thing. Like I asked in another thread "is this the worlds greatest con trick ?".
Even the street vendors who sell copied football shirts, designer stuff and rip-off CD's/ DVD's don't charge you more than the original.
If you figure in that you are paying for a lower quality, protected version
of the original and are also paying a greater price for it then I can't understand why these services are so popular.
Big thumbs down from me anyway, if the price reflected the product then this would be a great way to get music. Otherwise it stinks
