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French service offers DRM-free music

updated 03:40 pm EDT, Wed June 21, 2006

DRM-free music in France


Starzik -- a French digital music service -- is offering musical tracks without DRM copy protection, a restriction imposed by services such as iTunes. Offering 600,000 tracks from three major record labels and thousands of independent labels, the service circumvents platform differences between Microsoft Windows systems and Macs, whose incompatibilities arise from the Digital Rights Management (DRM) copy protection schemes imposed by digital music distributors to regulate how consumers use the music they purchase online, according to Macworld UK. Starzik's tracks will be offered in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, and WMA formats. Thus far the store only caters to French customers, selling individual tracks for €1 each and albums for €9.


by MacNN Staff

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  1. cvbcvb

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    eMusic

    The French equivalent of eMusic only with more (and better) format options then just mp3’s.

    CVB

  1. cvbcvb

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    one more thing...

    Another difference is that eMusic only has monthly plans that allow x amount of tracks downloaded per month.

    eMusic should wake up.

    CVB

  1. jchen

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    Joined: Jul 2002

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    eMusic

    I have no problems with eMusic - I really like their "indie" selection and the subscription plan is inexpensive (25 cents/track for the $9.99/month basic plan). Then again, I listen to my albums fairly thoroughly before I consider making new purchases so that the three or so albums I download every month are quite sufficient.

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