DRM-free digital downloads
Is DRM dead? As more and more music sites sell unrestricted tracks, PC Advisor investigates the best places to download your favourite tunes.
Audio Lunchbox
This easy-to-explore site offers a vast selection of indie-label albums from a variety of genres. Audio Lunchbox has everything from virtually unknown acts to big-name artists such as Tom Waits and The Game, all in MP3 format. You can either sign up for one of its month-to-month subscription plans (these start at £6.80) or buy tracks à la carte (about 65p per track). Audio Lunchbox offers 50 free downloads when you sign up for a subscription plan. Other bonuses include weekly editors' picks and top 10 lists.
More than two million tracks are available at a quality of 192Kbps Variable BitRate (VBR; this means the bitrate changes during the file in order to save space where the maximum encoding level isn't required). It's easy to find what you're looking for, too, with a search facility that specifies 32 genres and track and artist names.
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Music downloads index:
- DRM-free digital downloads
- Amazon MP3
- Amie Street
- Apple iTunes
- Audio Lunchbox
- Bleep
- CD Baby
- eMusic
- Jamendo
- LiveDownloads
- Napster
- 7Digital
- Limewire Store
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