Many CD Freaks asked for it, many, many times. And it seems slowly companies are listening to us. Reuters reports that Walmart is now selling DRM free music trough their online store. The company sells thousands of albums and songs from major record labels like Vivendi's , Universal Music Group and EMI Group with no copy protection on it.
According to the article Walmart said it would sell the "DRM-free" MP3 downloads of music by artists like the Rolling Stones, Amy Winehouse and Maroon 5 for 94 cents per track or $9.22 per album. The record labels of Sony and Warner are currently investigating if they will also release songs DRM free.
Of course the true pirates are still not satisfied, they will only buy the music if it's also in a decent format and bitrate, right?
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Guest (guest),
Thu 23 Aug 2007 21:40
Let me guess.... They are going to use 128kbps for mp3, right? Just like they did WMA. They actually thought 128k wma was good quality.
Any bets on whether it'll be CBR or dual-stereo (which effectively halves the bitrate)?
Not too likely they'll actually do a reasonable bit-rate (say 256k bps) and joint stereo.
Let's be honest, if it's just 128kbps, then you'll be better off recording it directly off the radio.
I've seen lots of reports on Walmart's (and others) new DRM free mp3 music, but not one report has bothered to say what bitrate it'll be.
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ShadowGod (guest),
Mon 27 Aug 2007 10:43
I just bought a song, it's DRM-free and bitrate is 256k.
