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MP3 players forum: I want to buy MP3s, how can I do it?

by: SherryB November 30, 2005 10:01 AM PST

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I want to buy MP3s, how can I do it?

by SherryB - 11/30/05 10:01 AM

I am so frustrated with the world of digital music.

I do not listen to music on my computer, and I do not WANT to listen to it on my computer. I listen to music in 2 places: in my car, which has a Ford factory MP3 CD player, and on my portable Sony MP3 CD player jambox. Both of those ONLY play MP3 CDs. Not WMAs, not anything else.

I do not want to subscribe to anything. Period. I only have a few favorite bands, I don't care about trying new music, and up to now I buy the CD and have to pay for shipping because that's the only way I know of to get music into my 2 methods of listening to it.

Is there a way to buy music online and transfer it to an MP3 CD? Everything I have looked at only handles WMAs or wants me to subscribe to an unlimited MP3 service. ~:-(


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iTunes

by yangman88 - 11/30/05 2:33 PM

In Reply to: I want to buy MP3s, how can I do it? by SherryB

Well, i guess u could buy songs off the itunes music store and then burn the songs onto a cd. You can also set it to an mp3 cd if you want.


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Sorry I was mad when I wrote that

by SherryB - 12/1/05 7:11 AM

In Reply to: iTunes by yangman88

I haven't tried iTunes, but every other online music service sells WMA files, which can't be converted in one easy step to MP3 files. It just bothers me that all the new cars are coming out with MP3 CD-capable stereos, and there's no music being sold for them. Everyone has to waste a CD-R, then rip it back off the CD to the computer. That degrades the sound quality and takes a lot of time too. Also when I do that, I have two copies of the album in my Musicmatch Jukebox software, and I can't tell which one is which. If I delete the WMA version, then I'm deleting my license, which I paid for. There just needs to be a better way.

Those of you who regularly use this "burn to CD" method, what do you do with the WMA files? Keep them in addition to the MP3s? Or just keep your audio CD?

Thanks!


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