Webware 100 winner: Amazon MP3
Amazon's MP3 store has had a banner year. The service sells DRM-free MP3s of entire musical albums, ripped at a very high bitrate and with digital copies of the cover art. The service offers over 2 million tracks that are available for sale individually or by the album. In order to download albums, users must install a small helper program that lets you download several tracks at the same time. It will also automatically take the tracks and add them to your iTunes and/or Windows Media Player libraries.
Because there's no DRM, the files can be played on any portable media player, which has helped Amazon jump to within the top five music sellers worldwide. Also, starting in January, Amazon signed a deal with Sony BMG that gave the music store access to all four major record labels, bringing it up to spec with its competitor, Apple's iTunes.
Winner: Amazon MP3 (AmazonMP3.com)
Category: Audio
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- Amazon MP3
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- eMusic
- Finetune
- iLike
- iTunes
- Last.fm
- Live365
- Pandora
- Zune Marketplace
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