Phil Cook v2 wrote:

> You have to use their download app for buying albums, and possibly 
> multiple tracks in one go. It is lightweight sits in the system tray and 
> open and closes by itself, course whether it works on anything but 
> Windows is a different question.
> 
> In Vista files go into an Amazon MP3 folder under Music and, depending 
> on the download manager settings, update the iTunes library too. 
> According to the properties they're 320kbps no DRM.

Mmm, interesting.

I can probably install the download manager in a VM to avoid screwing up 
my actual PC. Hopefully once I have the files I can then get rid of the 
VM. (I'm only planning on ever doing this once.)

320 kbit/sec is the maximum bitrate that the MP3 standard supports, 
AFAIK. Frankly, at that rate, you'd be hard-pressed to tell the 
difference between fully uncompressed audio.

Once I get the files, I can decode them back into PCM, put them on a CD 
and pretend that this whole sorry episode never happened. ;-)

(Since Amazone are giving me the credit for free, I thought I'd go 
download the album I *thought* I was buying the first time around...)

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