Apple launches iTunes Music Store in U.K.

[divad6719]

Germany and France, .79 pence a song or .99 cents (Euro). They are saying an average album will be 7.99 quid. 128kbps AAC I would suppose.

Here

Not much use to you guys but interesting none the less, a lot of people have been waiting for this (not me though ). It's been the iPod's missing link in Europe. (I know, some people say you have to be the missing link to own an iPod, just thought I'd get that in before anybody else )

When I get a chance I'll download a track and let you know how it goes. Information is power and all that cr*p.

[obiwan]

There was also a story on this on the BBC web site today.

Is anyone else feeling that there are increasing similarities between Apple and Microsoft??

[y0da]

eh

apple has been doing good lately

ipod really helped them but they where starting to put out alot of nice stuff before that....i think its really the hope of any company to make it big like microsoft ....not that i really like there software but i always found it funny when pple would say something like "micro$oft".... a company regardless of where there from in the world only exists to make money....apple included funny because to some apple fanboy's they are the 2nd comeing...crusading against all those other evil corporations that don't care and only want to turn a profit

i say good for them the more pple that buy the ipod the more that will be looking for a new DAP to replace the ipod when they get fed up with its flaws


heh

[divad6719]

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

[seadzz]

Don't feel left out since iTunes is launched and you can't use AAC files.

Coke, the softdrink company has just launched a competitive download service....here is the link

http://www.mycokemusic.com/indexFlash.html

enjoy your downloaded music which is iRvier compatible.

sdz

[Skeeve]

Thats nice of them, they are charging more per download in the uk.