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[PSUs]| Tuesday 6th March 2007 |
TuneTuzer aims to clarify digital music soup
4:51PM, Tuesday 6th March 2007
A UK man has set up a website that compares digital music stores, after realising that if he changes his portable music player then his digital music collection would become 'unusable'.
store, such as the number of songs in their catalogue, compatibility with Mac and Windows and software requirements.
Singer said that in future he plans to add a grid showing which stores and formats are compatible with different music players as well as more specific details of the various subscription services' prices and terms. Some, for example, insist that you continue to pay the subscription fee in perpetuity or lose access to all their music; others, such as eMusic, provide a fixed number of unrestricted downloads per month.
'I started the site when I realised I was spending a lot on downloading music that would be unusable if I switched audio players,' Singer explained. 'Not all downloads are equal. For the same price you can often get better quality - and tracks that don't come with restrictions on how you use them.'
Clifford Singer's TuneTuzer lists the stores currently operating in the UK and US, breaking them down by those offering pay-per-download and those that rely on a monthly subscription payment. Alongside each store he provides the file format used, the typical bit rate, standard prices for single tracks and albums and whether DRM is applied.
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Singer said that in future he plans to add a grid showing which stores and formats are compatible with different music players as well as more specific details of the various subscription services' prices and terms. Some, for example, insist that you continue to pay the subscription fee in perpetuity or lose access to all their music; others, such as eMusic, provide a fixed number of unrestricted downloads per month.
'I started the site when I realised I was spending a lot on downloading music that would be unusable if I switched audio players,' Singer explained. 'Not all downloads are equal. For the same price you can often get better quality - and tracks that don't come with restrictions on how you use them.'
TuneTuzer can be found at tunetuzer.com.
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