I want to buy music that I can use anywhere.

[p924]

I'm sick of the music stores online that protect the music so that you can only play it on a certain player or only on the pc that you purchased on etc. Players change and break and computers get replaced. I have 3 pc's that I use in different locations.

What is the best place online to buy high quality unprotected mp3 files?

 

[tdawg]

iTunes is offering some music, I think from EMI's catalog, that is DRM-free. There is no online store that offers a wide variety of music in an unprotected format. This is the RIAA, after all.

There are two ways around the protected format. 1) Burn purchased tracks to a CD, in the standard music cd format, and then rip them back to your computer in mp3 format, or 2) buy the physical cd and rip it to your computer.

 

[p924]

wow really? I'm surprised people stand for this. If I buy a song I want to play it on all my computers and in all of the available players.

I don't want to have to take a compressed music file that I purchase, convert it to an uncompressed format and then perform another lossy compression on it again just to make it portable. I guess piracy is the only way. I'll just buy an album once in a while so I'm not stealing more than they are.

 

[nweaver]

I strip DRM off the songs. Nobody supports linux,