Double click the track, or hit the Play button on iTunes and you'll be treated to a 30 second preview of the song.Īdvantage: Amazon MP3. You're all familiar with how iTunes does this, I'm sure. You can click a play button next to a particular track to hear a sample, or hit the Preview All button and hear all the previews in the order they appear on the album. The same search run on the iTunes Store returns:Īs you can see, the first result is the song I was looking for.Īmazon MP3 has a very straight forward way of previewing tracks, and if you're familiar with the way Amazon handles previews of physical CDs you're familiar with what they are doing with the digital tracks. The song I was looking for came in at #17 on the 57 songs found (sorted by relevance). The results are presented in typical Amazon style: barebones but fairly easy to use. The term I entered was 'rehab,' and here are the results: I bought Rehab because it was featured on Amazon's front page, but to be fair I searched for it using the Amazon MP3 search. You can't buy something if you can't find it, right? That's why searching is so important for any online music seller.

What better way to compare and contrast the Amazon experience to the iTunes Store experience than purchasing the same song? The song in question is Rehab by Amy Winehouse (mostly because it was the first song that caught my eye on Amazon's page, and I enjoy it whenever I hear it).

Being the intrepid blogger that I am, I thought I would go ahead and give Amazon's new MP3 store a whirl, since it works with iTunes and offers up high quality DRM-free MP3 files.

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