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Just checked out Amazon and bought some tunes.
--Ugly as sin interface
--Apparently no shopping cart, and once the purchase/download is over, you are returned to the HOME page! Not even to where you decided to buy the previous song.
--Only the "Top 100" songs are .89 cents. Most are .99 and up.
And what's all this about iTunes songs being locked into Apple players? Bull. As another reader commented, you can rip to a CD and re-encode. Your quibble about "re-compressing" is a distinction without a difference. Re-encode at a higher bit-rate if your ears are so sensitive to such tiny variations in sampling or compression. Or skip the CD step completely and use an audio capture program as you play back each tune and either compress on the fly or capture uncompressed and re-encode later.
Criminy, even an old geezer like me knows these things. Workarounds--without them IT would crash permanently.
