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Thursday, March 30, 2006
Music: AllTunes
Allofmp3.com has released allTunes v1.0, a browser/interface to their ever-growing (and very CHEAP) music catalogue. I assume that allTunes will replace the AllOfMp3 Explorer. Apparently the service is available to Smartphones as well as a PC desktop.I have used allofmp3.com for quite a while now. It is a Russian site that offers music priced at 2 cents per MB downloaded. An album in mp3 format typically costs anywhere from $1 - $3+ depending on compression users choose. One might ask, "Why pay for music when you can download for free off of bittorrent?" The answer is simple - convenience. Users may choose file type (including FLAC) and compression setting for each song/album to download. The mp3s are tagged. Users know that what they are downloading is as advertised instead of the crapshoot of downloading from a file sharing program.
I tried allTunes out and it works well. I like that data results are updated as I type in the Search field. The results appear very quickly, which I assume is because the catalogue has been downloaded to the client. However, that catalogue download is much quicker than the download with the old Explorer for whatever reason. Performance of allTunes seems much better than the old Explorer as well. I occasionally get an error when trying to preview a song in the browser. What is bizarre is that I tried to play a downloaded song in the browser and winamp opened (my default mp3 player, even though I usually have iTunes open all the time). I would like to see a "Similar artists" section when I am viewing a particular artist or album (similar to the site structure).
One note on the actual site itself - An email subscription is offered, but an RSS feed of added albums would be much more useful.
allTunes:
http://www.alltunes.com/
AllOfMP3.com:
http://www.allofmp3.com/
Similar article on TechCrunch(includes numerous user comments):
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/29/allofmp3-launches-alltunes/
posted by Robert, 11:01 PM
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