Great. I'm still a great fan of the likes of radioblogclub and imeem. Streaming is where it's at. How's Puretrack for price/quality? <div>On 18/05/07, Laszlo Pandy <<a href="mailto:laszlok2@gmail.com">laszlok2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <a href="http://Puretrack.ca">Puretrack.ca</a> 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] <a href="http://www.puretracks.com/content/viewer.aspx?cid=GlobalNav_MP3"> http://www.puretracks.com/content/viewer.aspx?cid=GlobalNav_MP3</a> -- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </blockquote></div> -- Sanjay Sodhi kshcshbash formerly CNSW