Are Amazon MP3 Downloads hasslefree?

[fatlazyhomer]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...rd_i=678551011

I want to get that, but I keep hearing about how online purchased music is always encrypted with DRM or w/e and its difficult to transfer around. Does this apply to amazon as well?

[Senor Panadero]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...rd_i=678551011

I want to get that, but I keep hearing about how online purchased music is always encrypted with DRM or w/e and its difficult to transfer around. Does this apply to amazon as well?

The amazon mp3's are DRM free, an easy transaction if you already have your account set up with Amazon.:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...200154210&#drm

What does DRM-free mean?

Digital Rights Management or "DRM" commonly refers to software that is designed to control or limit how a file can be played, copied, downloaded, shared, or accessed. DRM-free means that the MP3 files you purchase from Amazon.com do not contain any software that will restrict your use of the file.

The post after yours probably won't last the day.

[strjms72]

i think it says somewhere on amazon that they're drm free

[fatlazyhomer]

Awesome, thanks. Cheapest thing I bought this holiday season!

[seodeveloping]

Yeah they are DRM free.

[fatlazyhomer]

Bah... not my kind of music. Pretty much paid 1$ for the album title track. Oh well, thats how much they charge for a track these days anyways, so its alright.

[madhatter256]

also 256kbit bitrate.

[Gator650]

I have not had any issues with buying albums or mp3s from amazon. They go from my linux box, to my mp3 player, to my PC's with no issues at all.

[TBird761]

I'm an Amazon MP3 customer as well. I like them because they use a modern version of LAME to encode their DRM-free MP3s and it is set to 256Kbps ABR while being 90-100 cents per track with significant album discounts. Billing happens at the end of every day, so you don't have to go through a checkout for each purchase or receive 50 automatic invoices per day. No external software is required unless you want to do whole albums with the discount. Even then, it's just a tiny little program. Win.

[Chiles4]

I actually had to install their download manager just to get some "singles". When I buy the song, I d/l an .amz file which I then double-click which adds the song to the download queue and the software d/ls it. It didn't use to be that way.

But yeah, a great place to fish for tunes.

[Windrunner]

Anyone know if they let you re-download the song(s) if you lose the file?

Edit : Yes, it has happened to me. I put a ripped MP3 in an obscure folder while cleaning off my desktop, delete the folder later, and have to go dig through the CDs to get it back.

[TBird761]

I think you can only do it multiple times during the same billing cycle without being double charged.

I've been double charged before because I closed my browser with the download-start page still open in one tab. The next day I opened my browser and the download started again. I received another bill for it. Now I'm very careful to go back a page after doing a download!

I've also had it go the other way when I did it twice in the same day. I wasn't re-charged.