A legal music downloading service that works on Linux

[Illusha Nokhrin]

I believe that eMusic offers DRM-free downloads, and does not require you to
install anything on your computer. They do have a download manager, but as
far as I know, that is an optional download.

On 5/18/07, Scott Blayney <scottblayney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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