Amazon MP3 is an excellent alternative to 'itunes' and 'napster'

Advantages: DRM free MP3s play on all computers / mp3 players, and copied endlessly, huge variety, good prices
Disadvantages: Download program needed for multiple song downloads, but this is also occurs with main rivals

...I don't have an ipod, I am very happy with my MP3 player and don't plan to buy an ipod. All of my music is organised in Windows Media Player,and I wanted to keep it that way. I didn't want to mess up my carefully organised system, but I really wanted to start downloading music (without doing so illegally). I didn't want the itunes or napster programs on my computer, then I discoverend Amazon MP3 music download. Most importantly - Amazon MP3s are DRM free. DRM (digital rights management) found on itunes and napster tracks, involve software that restricts the tracks being played to the computer they were originally purchased on (and 2 or 3 nominated computers that also have naptster / itunes installed). DRM prevent you sharing your music with your friends and you can even lose it altogether if your computer dies. Amazon MP3 files...

potoroo99 18.09.2009 · Read review
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review of hercules mp3 djay control

Advantages: easy to install and understand, very cheap, good features very small and portable
Disadvantages: No headphone jack, space slightly cramped with buttons, requires seperate sound card for cueing

...supplied with the virtual dj software which basicaly works like your top end mp3 mixing softwares such as final scratch by stanton. on screen you see two turntables where you can load up a song on each, there is a virtual mixer on screen allowing you to fade between tracks like the real thing, the software can be used on its own and when you hook up the unit you get a more realistic hands on dj feel. The company claim that it can be used to perform mixing and scratching like the real thing but i personally found the jog wheels being very small and hard to keep track of what your doing and also the cross fader being very close in proximity means you are likely to knock it as you move the wheels making tight cuts very difficult although i found there to be little or no latency between the movement of the wheel and the representation of that in...

Gerryatrix 25.06.2009 · Read review
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Legal mp3s

Advantages: new bands!!!
Disadvantages: thousands of them :o(

...MP3.com is a site which consists of a huge database of legal(yes legal) mp3 files for your downloading pleasure. If you are looking to uncover the next Oasis then this is probably one of the better places to start as there are some really good bands etc. on here...if you can find them... The main problem which I find with this site is that it is simply so huge. There are literally thousands of mp3s on here by numerous artists and trawling through the chaff to reach the corn is something of a life-shortening experience. Sadly it is moe likely that you will prefer to use something like Napster and find the files by artists you already know and like rather than seeking out ones you have never heard of at mp3.com. Overall, a great idea and a site which is easy to use and navigate, but the easy option is always best so unless you have...

wampyrii 16.11.2000 · Read review
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FREE AND LEGAL MP3 DOWNLOADS

Advantages: Legal downloads, the artist gets 50% royalties, you download what you want
Disadvantages: You need a PC to benefit, but we've all got one haven't we

...in MP3 format, arranged by albums. Members pay subscriptions which are fifteen dollars a month for a three month commitment or ten dollars a month for a year long subscription payable by credit card. You can also sample the site with free trial which consists of two weeks or fifty tracks whichever comes first. Needless to say my free trial was over very quickly after which I took out an annual subscription. You have the option of downloading a single track or a complete album . The latter requires the installation and use of Real Download which tries to take over your PC, so I compromised using the excellent Getright and selecting the tracks individually. To date I have made one payment and downloaded around twenty five albums, which is excellent value for money. The tracks are CD quality encoded and as yet I’ve not had a duff...

mikeydred 09.05.2002 (18.06.2002) · Read review
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Technika MP-308 4GB MP3 player with FM tuner

Advantages: Wide range of features
Disadvantages: Difficult to navagate menus

...The MP-308 is Tesco?s current top of the range mini MP3 player with FM radio, and at 3p shy of £30 places it firmly in the budget end of the market. Having very recently ?goosed? my previous player doing a firmware upgrade, I got mine as an impulse purchase. It?s small ? about the same size as a lighter, and has a rechargeable battery, so running costs are minimal. You get everything you need; the player, a USB lead, a pair of cheap headphones, and a set of paper instructions and a mini-CD. In fact if you?ve previously owned an MP3 player, you can probably dispense with the last two items, the player supports traditional ?drag?n?drop? from your ?my music? folder. The instructions suggest that it?s far better to use the application which comes with the machine, that way you can make playlists, catalogue your albums and so...

dobieg 23.09.2009 · Read review
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The Apple Of My i (MP3 Edition)

Advantages: An excellent MP3 player with a huge hard drive.
Disadvantages: So much space available you may not know exactly what to do with it all.

...Once I bought the iPhone I was dying for another bite of the Apple. I have a huge and ever expanding collection of music and therefore need a large MP3 player to hold it all on. The iPhone is great, but with a 16GB hard drive it just isn't quite large enough to store my masses of music on. From Abba right through to ZZ Top; the 160GB Apple iPod can hold it all and there is still plenty of space left over for my ever expanding music collection. Having so far taken up 100GB I think I'm doing quite well at filling it so far, but there's still plenty more that can be stored and I doubt I'll be stretching my player to its full capacity for a long while yet. 100GB is the total amount of music I have amassed during the last 5 or so years, and to tell the truth a lot of the music on there I probably shan't be listening to ever again. How...

RazzaLazza 15.02.2008 · Read review
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The best MP3 resource on the Internet

Advantages: Free original music, plenty of reviews on software, and comments on legalities
Disadvantages: Can be a little slow at times due to the huge amount of traffic

.... The music costs nothing to download, but there is the option on most people's pages to purchase CD Albums and singles of their music professionally put together by mp3.com. So if you really like an artist's music you can save yourself hours of downloading and buy a CD for a few dollars. The music is easy to find and is put into charts so you can see who is doing well. These charts reflect how many people download and listen to the music. It is usually (not always the case) safe to assume that the better stuff will be at the top of the charts. However, it is worth a search lower down the charts as many great artists never get near the top and this is a severe injustice. Ok, so what else is there on the site? Well there are sections dedicated to the laws surrounding the MP3 format. This is a very useful, interesting, and important read if you...

Infinity 20.12.2000 · Read review
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Review of mp3.com

Free mp3 music - almost! It's true!

Advantages: Very very cheap
Disadvantages: Search facility could be improved

...WHAT? FREE MUSIC? Yes, free mp3 music, almost ? and I?m not talking about file sharing either. As far as the old Napster is concerned ? been there, done that, got the virus? No, I?ve had my fill of queues, misnamed and incomplete files, adware, Trojans and other assorted malicious code from these sites. I?m not talking about over-commercialised sites either, where you?re expected to pay 99p for a track. For an album (in mp3 format, which is not as good as audio CD), you can pay as much as you would in the High Street ? and you don?t even get the CD, the jewel case or the sleeve notes to keep. I?m talking about a little-known Russian (so far!) music download site, (there are actually three sites I use, which are all very very cheap, but this one beats them all in price if not for scope, and which I?ve been using...

xandie1 01.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of 3MP3.ru

Bulk loads of MP3s

Advantages: BIG choice of downloads, and the Lo-Fi facility
Disadvantages: Takes a while to download stuff, and can only be done 1 at a time

...mp3.com is one of the best music sites that I've ever been to. The huge number of downloadable mp3's can probably not be beaten. It doesn't seem to contain many bands / singers blah blah blah whatever, that I have ever heard of, but the ones that it does have, are sometimes quite amazing. The best feature of the site is the endless lists of top 40's (they go right back in to the 1000's actually), with a chart dedicated to each different genre (of which there are hundreds). With so many choices, so many thousand songs to pick from to download, these individual charts give a rough representation of which are the best. They also give a worldwide opinion and not just a localised view. The sites search facility is very easy to use, and quite often comes up with exactly what you're looking for (if its there). Before fully downloading...

BJEEE 11.12.2000 · Read review
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This MP3 is just right for me

Advantages: Holds more than 10 albums
Disadvantages: See below

...I recently went to use my personal CD player and to my disappointment it was broken. Anyhow I decided it was time to give up the ghost and buy myself something new. I grabbed the Argos catalogue and had a browse and spotted a cheap little 1 GB MP3 Player and as I have just added all my CD collection onto my hard drive a short while ago I thought this would be ideal. The MP3 player made by a company called iitronics who have their own website www.iitronics.com . The model that I purchased was the IMP-65 Portable WMA/MP3 player. It can hold up to 1024MB of data and has a built in microphone. The packaging was very good and it included some basic earphones, a USB cable, an AAA battery and a CD driver disc. There was also Warranty card and a user manual. The earphones are very basic and struck me as peculiar because near the jack...

Kingkarliii 09.10.2006 · Read review
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