Streaming services are really moving toward smartphones, which are destroying the market for standalone mp3 players. It’s annoying–designed to push you toward buying an Apple player with a higher price and fewer features, but “it just works” with iTunes. m4a versions, and send them over to the Clip. And then, because iTunes doesn’t like to tell you where the music is on your computer, you have to find the files, make sure you have the. You can do the conversion in iTunes (highlight the file or files, right-click, Create mp3 version) but it’s an extra step. Amazon also runs weekly specials where you can get an album for a very low price–that’s how Lady GaGa had huge first-week sales.įor iTunes, you have to download the song in Apple’s own m4a format and convert to mp3. Amazon and iTunes both have most of the musical universe, though there are a few exclusives on iTunes. Amazon and eMusic are already in mp3 format ready for the Sansa. If you do choose to do that, you have better alternatives than iTunes. You can buy individual songs from other services like iTunes, Amazon and eMusic but that gets expensive at $.99 or $1.29 per song, or $9.99 per most albums. I hope you can make Rhapsody work on the new player.Īs for iTunes, your informant wasn’t quite right. The streaming service also allows you to check out things you’re curious about, and find new stuff without committing to buying it. The good thing about a subscription streaming service is that you pay one fee and get to sample all you want, and usually you would listen to more songs than the subscription fee would buy individually.

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