MP3 Downloads
Amazon MP3's catalog is accessible from the Amazon.com web site by searching for an artist or title name. To download purchased music, Amazon.com offers the Amazon MP3 Downloader which is optional for individual tracks and required for album purchases. The Downloader is available for Windows (XP or Vista), Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, and Linux (packages are provided for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE). It saves purchased music into a particular folder and can, at the user's discretion, add purchased tracks to the library in Windows Media Player (Windows only) or iTunes (Windows and Mac OS X only) automatically after download. An Amazon MP3 application for the Android mobile device platform is preloaded on T-Mobile G1 smartphones. The application allows mobile phone users to download individual tracks and albums when on a Wi-Fi network. Amazon MP3 is a digital music store owned and operated by Amazon.com. Launched in public beta on September 25, 2007,[1] in January 2008 it became the first music store to sell music without digital rights management (DRM) from the four major music labels (EMI, Universal, Warner Music, and Sony BMG), as well as many independents.All tracks are sold in variable bitrate MP3 format without per-customer watermarking or DRM. Licensing agreements with recording companies restrict the countries in which music can be sold: Amazon.com only sells music to US customers while Amazon.co.uk only sells music to UK customers. On December 3, 2008, Amazon MP3 was launched in the United Kingdom, the first country outside the United States to receive Amazon MP3. ...just in case you wanted to know!
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