I have been downloading music through Rhapsody lately and tried to get The Very Best Of The Beach Boys this morning and I’ll be darned if the darn thing wouldn’t let me pay for it…
So I took it as a sign from the gods of music downloads to look else where. I have Amazon Prime so figured I would just order it and get the CD and burn it… Well look at that, the actual CD was cheaper getting shipped to me than Rhapsody had the downloads… To download from Rhapsody it was $11.99, to buy the CD from Amazon it was $10.97. Then I noticed that I could download the album in MP3 from Amazon, never noticed that before (yeah, I am really observant as you may have noticed…)… So I download the IE extension to allow it and for $7.99 (yes $4 cheaper than Rhapsody) I download the album…
You know what, MUCH less painful to do as well, Rhapsody downloads in Real Networks crap ass format and then I have to burn to CD then rip from CD thereby eating up some of the quality. Amazon downloaded it and then told Media Player about it and voila I have music I can enjoy right off without any loss in sound quality…
Only complaint about the Amazon plugin… File location selection… It didn’t get the setting from Media Player where my music was kept and didn’t ask me where I wanted it, just assumed it should dump it in the garbage bin I call Documents and Settings… Just for an FYI, I keep nothing on the system disk that I care about, I consider it disposable and will rebuild my machines on a whim to avoid Windows Rot and the resulting performance hit. Actually I am WAY overdue for a rebuild now, haven’t done much of anything technical since last July.
Ok back to working on the DEC PowerPoint presentation….
