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From: | J.B. Nicholson |
Subject: | Re: [libreplanet-discuss] buying CDs VS Digital Downloads |
Date: | Fri, 19 Feb 2016 19:25:38 -0600 |
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Cardoza, Michael wrote:
Where as digital downloads almost always come in a format that is non-free, if they come in a format that is free you either need non-free software to download them, or at the least non-free java script to download them. In the case of amazon if something happens to your files you need to download the songs individually as there is no Software for GNU/Linux (that I am aware of) that can download a whole album.
There are sources that distribute DRM-free recordings that work excellently with free software. Magnatune.com, for instance, will sell you unlimited access to their library in a variety of formats (including FLAC) for a one-time fee and they offer an SQLite database which catalogs all of their current recordings at http://he3.magnatune.com/info/sqlite_magnatune.db.gz. It's not hard to write a program to download the latest database, figure out which recordings are new to you, and download them all with free software. As far as I know there are no region restrictions used to prohibit downloading from magnatune.com. There is a note about sharing the recordings as well (see http://blog.magnatune.com/2004/04/peertopeer_netw.html although the complete terms are not entirely clear to me).
I imagine there are other comparable sources of media out there that work similarly.
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