A legal music downloading service that works on Linux

[Scott Blayney]

Why not try AnywhereCD?  They offer DRM-free mp3s.

http://www.anywherecd.com/mp3/home1

"AnywhereCD is a music store where for the first time you'll find
thousands of CD & MP3s from popular artists you know and love. All
albums you buy you can listen to immediately, download MP3 files, plus
you get the physical CD. With your support we hope to convince everyone
to offer CDs with MP3s so please browse a chart or genre and buy some
music." ~ Michael Robertson

On Fri, 2007-18-05 at 07:26 -0400, Laszlo Pandy wrote:
> Puretrack.ca announced back in February that is was going to start 
> selling MP3 on their site as well as the usual DRM crippled WMA tracks 
> that they had before. However on FAQ on their MP3 page[1], it says:
> 
> Q: 	Does this mean I can buy songs from Puretracks on a Mac?
> A: 	Not yet. But we are definitely working on it.
> 
> Since they say it doesn't work on the Mac I was disappointed and assumed 
> it wouldn't work on Linux, but today I decided I would give it a try 
> anyway and if it didn't work after I paid my money I would use my 
> friend's computer to download it.
> 
> Once I went through checkout and paid with my credit card, it takes you 
> to a page with an ActiveX control to allow you to download your songs. 
> Obviously that didn't work on Firefox, but I clicked on the link for the 
> "alternate download" method and it took me to another page which let me 
> download their downloadmanager.exe program. Then I simply ran the 
> program with wine on the command line and everything started downloading:
> 
> sudo apt-get install wine
> wine downloadmanager.exe
> 
> Usually for me wine only works partially and crashes a lot, but this 
> program worked flawlessly. I tried to crash it but I could not.
> 
> All this means that for those willing, there is now a legal music 
> downloading service that work on Linux. As far as I am aware (correct me 
> if I'm wrong) this is a first in Canada (and probably further than that) 
> for Linux. I just wanted to let everyone know, and I hope this info helps.
> 
> Of course their selection of MP3's isn't that great because most labels 
> still insist on DRM, however some of my favorite Canadian bands are 
> already on that page such as Barenaked Ladies, Stars, The Arcade Fire, 
> and Broken Social Scene. Hopefully EMI's music will be available without 
> DRM soon too.
> 
> Laszlo
> 
> [1] http://www.puretracks.com/content/viewer.aspx?cid=GlobalNav_MP3
> 
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