I bought some DRM-free music this weekend on Amazon MP3. The experience was fantastic. Its obvious that they really put a lot of thought into the user experience when they built the site. I already have an amazon.com account, so once I decided to make a purchase, the first thing it did was ask me if I wanted to install the Amazon MP3 downloader. I installed it, provided my account information, and my download started instantly. The download was REALLY fast…I downloaded Pink Floyd’s The Wall - a 2 disc set with a total of 26 songs - for $8.99, and the download of all of the songs took maybe 5 minutes at the most (over my broadband cable connection). The really nice thing about it was not only did it download the music, but it also automatically added it to my iTunes library. Very nice. From there I was able to instantly load it onto my iPod (I don’t have mine setup to automatically sync).

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The iPod/iTunes experience just gets better all the time. I’m pretty excited about this.