Last Straw

And now for some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent, for those of you who like to listen to clas­sical music. I’ve been mean­ing to blog this for a while:

Passionato.com — this is how digital music dis­tri­bu­tion on the net should work: decent length pre­views, DRM-free (mean­ing no restric­tions on which devices you play your music) and avail­able in lossless file format (mean­ing the files are com­pressed without sac­ri­fi­cing the integ­rity of the audio, as hap­pens with lossy formats like MP3).

They could improve their search func­tion, but the show-stopper is price: if I find an album I like what’s to stop me from pur­chas­ing the CD for cheaper? I’m not a huge buyer of music but I would be if digital dis­tri­bu­tion com­peted with CDs.

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