I have found alot of older stuff, but there just getting started. If it is a bigenough hit, i would not be suprised if in a year or so you will be able to get just about anything.

Heh - born in 1967 here.... grew up in the 80's! lol

Well, I ran over to Apple's site and gave this thing a whirl. This gets a serious "2 thumbs down" from me...

Thumb 1: content - nothing to see here folks, unless you happen to only want to listen to music that is now or has been in regular rotation on MTV. All major label stuff as of now, and not even complete catalogues of those artists. Into independent music of any kind? Forget it.

Thumb 2: "rights management" - the way I see it, if I'm paying FULL PRICE for my music, I ought to be able to listen to it on as many music dexices as I want to (I have 2 computers, an mP3 player for my bike, another one I listen to when I snowboard, a 20gig unit in my bedroom, and a CD/MP3 player in my truck). Can't do that here, unless you are willing to physically burn your stuff to an audio CD and then reconvert the tracks to MP3 in another application, thereby (hopefully) nixing the "rights management" on the tracks. Oh, be careful though, because you can only burn a track to CD 10 times before you will no longer have access to it. Utter BS in my opinion.

If I buy 12 tracks here, I pay 12 bucks for pure data I am severely limited in my use of.

If I buy the CD, I pay around 12 bucks for around 12 tracks, I have the physical disc, the tracks in an uncompressed format, and I can listen to them wherever, however, and however many times I want.

In the past, end-user "rights managemnt" has been grudgingly accepted either because the consumer was paying for overly compressed data, or paying far less than store-bought CD prices. Neither of these is currently the case, and I am frankly insulted that I am expected to buy something and then have stipulations on how, where, and how many times I can use it.

But hey, if it works for you, rock on, man. I certainly won't be giving these jerks any of my money, though.

I actually went to buymusic.com, and I think I like it better. At least I don't have to have another specific software to buy songs, play or burn music. But alas, it's for US residents only as well.

I already have and use Media Player, so it suits me. And Media Player is skinnable.

I've been using buymusic.com for awhile and like it. Hopefully they will get a few more titles in there soon. I'm thinking about giving itunes a try. One of the main things I appreciate so far is that there is no subscription fee, as there is in a couple of other sites.
This is probably the wave of the future for music buying.
I don't miss the 'hardware' of store bought cd's. I can fire up psp and the roxio jewel case creator and make my own.

Real Player? You mean Quicktime?

Well... I can see where it would be reasonable for nonpublished artists to get their work out and make a little money. But 99 cents a shot... sharing it with Apple and RIAA... they won't see a dime or penny as the case might be.

Anyway... as long as RIAA is vent on suing little girls whose mom is on welfare for thousands of dollars and just being moronically and seriously greedy... I won't even buy an individual song with this method or even the actual CD.
I used to download lots of individual songs to hear... then go out and buy the CD. Now I won't do it.

Change the world? Excuse for pirating music is over? I don't think so... it's a great player and I like it, but the store only works in US for heaven's sake and they don't seem to plan opening in europe (or elsewhere) in the near future so this might change the world if your idea of world is the USA... for us in EU, the excuse for pirating music is still alive and kicking.
Don't get me wrong... I have nothing against paying for music downloads... but what the hell am I supposed to do when the service is unavailable for me?

What happends when they start putting chips in our brains? Next thing you know you wont need a recording studio you just generate it and share it. therefore lets get out of the stone age and start making music free , use money for nanotechnologie devellopement instead hehehe

To someone up above who said you can only burn a purchased song to CD 10 times... this is absolutely untrue. The reality is that you can only burn a specific playlist of purchased songs 10 times. However, move the songs around and then you can burn it another 10 times, etc... it's nothing more than plastic-wrapper thin protection to keep people from mass producing a "CD".

I really don't think that anyone is going to come along with an online music store that has LESS copyright protection than what iTunes offers. No one is going to sell MP3's that one person can buy and then copy to 100 friends.

btw, mormegil, sorry to hear you don't like your Dual G4. I just purchased a new 'close-out' Dual G4 1.42 and am very pleased. Well, other than the fact that I wish it looked like my old G4 Cube.