I’ve been keeping track of music download services and I just ran into a Gem. As a man who is building a multi-zone, hifi digital sound and data infrastructure through my entire home and yard, this stuff matters to me. I think it’s great that you will be able to download DRM free high quality music from iTunes and other services. But with the price of hard drives going down, it’s companies like MusicGiants that offer and will continue to offer a compelling music download service.
Music Giants currently offer remixed SACD’s and DVD-AUDIO files as Windows WMA 1100 kbps 5.1 and 2.0 Hidef Stereo versus the 128 to 192 kbps of other download services and at 1.29 per track or 15.29 and if you would take away the DRM, I think you would have a unstoppable value.
This–as far as I know–is the first online music service that is letting customers download DVD-AUDIO, SACD quality music directly into the computer, and you can only get it (5.1 2.0 hifi) on a Vista Media Center experience. That’s one thing you don’t have on the Apple ecosystem, and they have signed with each and every one of the major labels.
The quality of music you get from iTunes is sickening. Napster isn’t too much better and I think at Wal*Mart you can get a quarter meg per second encoding which is fine for most people but the future is digital, and it’s all hi-definition, a 128 or 192 kbps music file will sound like a cassette tape in 10 years.
Unfortunately, the store currently only works in IE.
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