Napster's DRM-free MP3 music store launches

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Napster's DRM-free MP3 music store launches

by Brad Linder May 20th 2008

Napster has launched its anticipated MP3 music store, bringing the service a bit closer to its roots. But you know, without the piracy.

Now Napster customers have two options. You can sign up for a subscription based service that lets you listen to any of 6 million songs for a monthly fee. But if you stop paying, your music disappears. Thanks DRM. Or you can individually purchase any of those 6 million songs in the DRM-free MP3 format.

Napster's content partners include all four major music labels and a huge library of tracks from independent artists and labels. Each song carries a 99 cent price tag, comes with album art, and a relatively high bitrate. Most songs are encoded at 256kbps or higher.

[via Crave]

Tags: drm, mp3, music, napster

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

robert said 12:15PM on 5-21-2008

thx for da free music

mp3lover said 2:47PM on 7-28-2008

+1 thanks for free mp3

mp3lover said 2:48PM on 7-28-2008

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