Best site for DRM-free online music purchasing?

[d000hg]

I've used Amazon before, anywhere known for being cheap or having other benefits like ability to re-download freely, etc?

[NotAllThere]

iTunes?

[Jog On]

gomusic?

[Qdos Contractor]

iTunes?

That's not DRM free. I've had a right nightmare trying to get my stuff on iTunes onto a memory stick to use in my car. The car has a Windows Media Player thing and will only read the stuff I haven't bought. Apparently you can get converters (which are illegal) but it seemed like such a pain that I just bought the things I really wanted again off a potentially dodgy Russian site called Legal Sounds or something.

[Scrag Meister]

That's not DRM free. I've had a right nightmare trying to get my stuff on iTunes onto a memory stick to use in my car. The car has a Windows Media Player thing and will only read the stuff I haven't bought. Apparently you can get converters (which are illegal) but it seemed like such a pain that I just bought the things I really wanted again off a potentially dodgy Russian site called Legal Sounds or something.

I though iTunes was DRM free on 80% of their catalog?

Seems to be at a fee.

Apple iTunes Store goes '100% DRM-free' - allegedly

[Spacecadet]

I though iTunes was DRM free on 80% of their catalog?

Seems to be at a fee.

Apple iTunes Store goes '100% DRM-free' - allegedly

That still leaves you with the issue of getting tunes off itunes and on to non itunes compatible hardware.
For that reason, I avoid itunes

[NickFitz]

That still leaves you with the issue of getting tunes off itunes and on to non itunes compatible hardware.
For that reason, I avoid itunes

DRM-free tracks from iTunes use the industry standard AAC encoding, which replaced MP3 and is supported by just about everything made in the past five years (and a fair amount of older stuff too).

[SupremeSpod]

That still leaves you with the issue of getting tunes off itunes and on to non itunes compatible hardware.
For that reason, I avoid itunes

PodToPC - works for me.

[NickFitz]

PodToPC - works for me.

Ah, of course - AAC has only been an industry standard since 1997, so naturally Microsoft haven't yet added support for it

Yet, strangely, the Zune supports it - this implies that the Media Player in Windows CE is more capable than the one they ship with their desktop OS

[d000hg]

DRM-free tracks from iTunes use the industry standard AAC encoding, which replaced MP3 and is supported by just about everything made in the past five years (and a fair amount of older stuff too).

Hmm, apart from anything else iTunes (or maybe MacOSX) seems to put a load of other files in with the music, so copying files is a bit more involved than select, copy, paste.

Also, no way am I putting iTunes on my PC. And my Mac is used my my wife, don't want to risk screwing up her iPod-sync using it.