Online Music Encyclopedia

Those are so many great online music stores where you can buy audio files. These stores generally sell music one song at a time or by subscription. The online music encyclopedia is developed to help you find the right place for file sharing and purchasing your favorite music.

The online music encyclopedia is not associated with Napster, iTunes, or any other major online music store. The online music encyclopedia is an informative service to help you learn about online music and to aid in making choices based on your needs.

Many boutique music stores cater to specific audiences. iTunes Store is the largest online music service with 61% of the market at last report. The second largest online music service is eMusic which maintains a 12% ownership of the market. The balance of the online music service industry is comprised of an array of smaller businesses.

The following is pulled from Wikipedia online Encyclopedia regarding Online Music as compared file swapping. This information is not intended to sway your choice in online music. Rather it is part of the goal of online music encyclopedia to help the reader make an informed decision.

Download Online Music vs. File Sharing

Advantages

• Follows copyright laws.
• More consistent and higher quality meta-data, because the entering of the meta-data is more centralized and done by groups with financial interests.
• Music download companies are more accountable to users than creators of file-sharing programs
• Centralized repository of music makes it easier to find the songs you want.
• Notably, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs claimed in his introduction of the iTunes Music Store that file swappers get paid less than minimum wage for the work required to download audio.

Disadvantages

• Many major online music stores only offer music in one audio format.
• Geographical restrictions rule most of the stores at the request of record labels.
• Many online music stores sell music encoded in a lossy format, compared to an audio CD.
• Users do not have a "hard copy" of purchased music, such as a CD, for archiving although music can usually be backed up to a CD or portable music player.
• Some stores do not provide artwork or liner notes.
• Stores have limited catalogs, because of copyright concerns. Most labels will not allow their music to be sold in the common MP3 format that music players use. For the most part music that is sold in MP3 format is not sold at higher bit rate encoding.
• Most stores use Digital Rights Management, which limits use of music on certain devices. The restrictions vary between different services, and sometimes even between different songs from the same service.
• Some stores are not platform independent and usually require the use of windows software.

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