Mac Alternatives to the iTumes Music Store?

[Geoff Grace]

Where can we Mac users go to legally download a song when the iTunes Music Store doesn't have what we're looking for?

 

(Tower Records and Wal-Mart, for example, are PC only.)

 

Thanks.

 

Best,

 

Geoff

[blue2blue]

Hey, Geoff, not sure if this will do the whole trick, but the Windows Media Player is available for OS X. I glanced over the info sheet for it and it looks pretty complete -- so I imagine it supports the DRM management they use on WMAs purchased from the other major online stores.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/default.aspx

 

 

(Now, I've sort of imagined they all have more or less similar content, but I don't really know. I don't buy many files theses days, preferring to simply subscribe to MusicMatch On Demand for $5 a month and just stream them. Why store them if I don't have to? Unfortunately, MMOD definitely is Windows only, as far as I know, since it uses MusicMatch Jukebox 9 or 10 as its mandatory host.)

[Geoff Grace]

Thanks, Blue.

 

I already have Windows Media Player for OS X. I suppose I could gamble 99

[steadyb]

 

Originally posted by Geoff Grace Ideally though, I'd like to download files that will play in iTunes and in my iPod, since I'm pretty invested in those technologies. (6,000 songs and counting...)

 

 

There's more than 6000 songs???