News - Amazon MP3 to bring DRM-free music to the UK in October?

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Speculation is rife and reports suggest that Amazon's long-awaited MP3 store will open its doors to UK customers as of next month.

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[Hicks12]

Am i right in thinking all online MP3's are ripped lower than 320kbp/s? its annoying because you should get top quality if you pay for it, atleast amazon are going to compete with play but i am yet to try online sales the good old album from family every year from the store is good enough for me .

[dangel]

http://www.7digital.com/ = MP3 320k

Apparently. Was looking at it yesterday.

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7digital.com has MP3 downloads at 320k

[Hicks12]

so why are amazon 1 step behind? cutting down on bandwidth and so they can provide that slightkly cheaper price? Should have 3 prices or something, 1 for high/medium/low bitrates because it would reduce bandwidth and so the pricing could be good.

[globalicon]

I sincerely doubt that Amazon are worried about bandwidth - they are supposed to be adding a CDN service to their web services toolset at the end of the year as they have servers all over the world.

I agree its better to have multiple encoding options that create different pricing levels - although i will always go for the highest bitrate available.