Music, DRM free, where to buy?

[brethren]

Where do you guys buy your digital music? I've always bought CDs or found "other" ways to grab my favorite songs. But now I'm looking for a place with good pricing and selection where I can buy new stuff digitally. DRM free of course.

 

[VanishedOne]

This comes up on the GOG forum from time to time: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drmfree_music_service_need_some_help

[SteveL]

I use Amazon. I've not tried any others, admittedly through laziness. But they've been DRM-free for a long time so it's all good.

[Destined]

Me too. I believe they tell you, that you can only download it on ten (IIRC) different devices, but this is reset once a year or every two years (in any case a time span, you usually not change your computer that often) and I also never had problems, playing the songs after copying them to another computer/smartphone etc. So their warning is most likely only for legal reasons or something...

[demagogue]

I hope it resets since I don't doubt I'll be on my 10th computer soon if not already since getting digital music from the 90s.

[Destined]

It's in the terms somewhere. Would have to look it up. But I am pretty sure it resets at some point.

[SteveL]

They are just plain unprotected MP3s aren't they? So you can copy them anywhere, anytime, irrespective of how many times you can download them.

[Destined]

Yes, as soon as you have them, you can do what you want.

[demagogue]

For the record I, at least, was talking about drm music (or whatever wmv is. It started when I ripped my cd collection, if you can imagine that far back) that requires me to get online and register a new device every time I get one. I want to be sure it lasts, although I know I responded as if talking about Amazon's music.

 

If it's just a plain mp3 then I think there's nothing to restrict it technically. I'm tempted to replace all the music I've bought with mp3s, given how many years I've jumped through their hoops, but even that would take a while and I don't even have a regular connection for my laptop.

[Destined]

I also remember the old wmv files. I think it is the common file type, when you used Windows Media Player to digitalize CDs. But if you do it with other programs (I am still currently using Winamp) you can get it as MP3. And if you bought some of your CDs at Amazon, you might wnat to check your account, because you get digital copies of all CDs you bought there, even older ones. It was a very pleasant surprise for me, when I discovered, that I got CDs, that I bought as presents for other people as MP3 there.