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Real Rhapsody |
Cost to Join/Download:
- FREE 14-day trial
- Subscription service: varies from free to $14.99 per month
- Songs from $0.99
- Albums from $9.99
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Our number one choice! Real Rhapsody (from the makers of the hugely popular Real Player) has a huge database of popular songs available for immediate download. The downloads are guaranteed to be safe from spyware, adware and viruses and are 100% legal so you can download with confidence. With over 1.5 million songs to choose from in outstanding crystal-clear quality, it's no wonder that Rhapsody.com makes it to our No. 1 spot...
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Real Rhapsody
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iTunes |
Cost to Join/Download:
- No subscription service
- Songs from $0.99
- Albums from $9.99
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If you haven't been living under a rock for the past 5 years you will have heard of iTunes. It is currently the biggest online music store by far and claims to have sold over 5 billion songs. Some of you may wonder then why we didn't give iTunes the much sought after top place in our music service reviews. Read our full review of iTunes and all shall be revealed...
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iTunes
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Napster |
Cost to Join/Download:
- FREE 7-day trial
- Subscription service: varies from free to $14.95 per month
- Songs from $0.99
- Whole albums from $9.99
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The site that started the music on-line revolution is back! Napster started out as a free, P2P file-sharing community offering free downloads, but then it was forced to shut-down. Now Napster is back, with legally-available, subscription-based music downloads. The user interface is polished and intuitive and is one of the most impressive interfaces of our recommended sites. When your compatible MP3 is connected, you can see its icon in the bottom right of the Napster user interface screen - to copy songs to your MP3 player you simply drag and drop them onto the icon - it's that easy...
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Napster
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eMusic |
Cost to Join/Download:
- 25 FREE MP3's to keep
- Subscription service:
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$9.99 per month (40 downloads) to $19.99 per month (90 downloads)
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eMusic has a huge array of songs from well-known established bands as well as from emerging artists, and the on-line album and single reviews are an excellent way to guide you through the myriad of music on offer from this site. The site is one of the few major music subscriptions sites to offer you all its music in the unprotected MP3 format, so you can keep all the tracks you download forever and play them on all your digital music players...
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eMusic
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Amazon MP3 |
Cost to Join/Download:
- No subscription service
- Songs from $0.89 up to $0.99
- Full Albums from $4.99 up to $9.99
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Amazon MP3 is a relatively new player in the music download service market. It hasn't been around as long as some of the big boys, but still offers a huge library of music to download. Building on the Amazon brand name, and offering the high level of customer service we have come to expect, Amazon MP3 is a serious contender in our top ten list. Read our full review to find out why...
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Amazon MP3
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Walmart Music |
Cost to Join/Download:
- No subscription service
- Individual songs from $0.94
- Albums (mostly) $9.22
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The no-frills superstore giant Walmart now offers a music download service as an extension of its web presence. As you might expect, the service is certainly no frills, but does offer some of the cheapest prices around. However, for the most part it's a good service with only one or two points which let it down. Let's start with the good stuff though.
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Walmart Music
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Zune Marketplace |
Cost to Join/Download:
- Subscription Servcice: $14.99 / month
- Individual Songs from $0.99
- Full Album (mostly) $10.78
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Zune Marketplace is the online music service offering from Microsoft. As such it integrates fantastically with any other Microsoft products, but anyone using anything different might want to think twice. The service it provides is pretty good, especially if you own a Zune portable player, but its pricing complexities and compatibility issues let it down...
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Zune Marketplace
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Puretracks |
Cost to Join/Download:
- No subscription service
- Individual songs from $0.99
- Albums from $9.99
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Puretracks is about as average as it is possible to get. It doesn't particularly excel at anything, but doesn't really do anything that badly either. With an average sized music library, averagely designed website an average prices Puretracks will probably be happy that it's sitting somewhere around the middle of our top 10 list. However, happy would probably be too strong an emotion for Puretracks, lets just say it wouldn't be fussed either way...
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Puretracks
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Audio Lunchbox |
Cost to Join/Download:
- Subscription service: varies
- Individual Songs from $0.99
- Albums from $9.99
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Audio Lunchbox is a music download service for independent music lovers. It offers a good variety of payment plans and competitive prices, but a couple of slight annoyances in the web site mean that it comes in towards the bottom of our top ten list of music download services. The first thing we should point out is that Audio Lunchbox is only for people interested in indie music and discovering new artists. If you are looking for the latest Pussycat Dolls album stop reading now...
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Audio Lunchbox
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PayPlay.FM |
Cost to Join/Download:
- No subscription service
- Individual Songs from $0.77
- Albums from $7.77
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PayPlay.FM is a music download service for lovers of indie music. It doesn't carry the latest releases from major labels, but offers a huge selection of independent artists. Its novel music discovery features make it stand out from some of the other indie music download services we have seen, so let us tell you the highs and lows of PayPlay.FM...
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