I started this post on Sunday but I am only now getting a chance to finish it…

I know the whole world is excited about Amazon’s new MP3 download service and that I’m going to be in the minority expressing my displeasure about it but I feel I have to share my feelings, after all this is my blog :).

Now let’s be fair, I’m hardly a big buyer of music in any form at this point. Those days seem to be behind me, that’s not to say I don’t love music, I do. It’s also not to say that I don’t have a lot of music, I do. It’s also not to say that I don’t listen to music often, I do, I just seem to have MOST of the music I want already.

I’ll admit, I took the bait… MP3s with NO DRM vs AAC with Fairplay, $0.89 vs $0.99… it all seemed so good until I went to download the song. I bought two songs, singles, not from the same album and although everyone has told me there was no Amazon downloader needed for a single, it does not seem to be the case on the Mac.

To be truthful, tho i had problems with the downloader, it was hardly the most disappointing part of my experience. I bought a song, I won’t say which song or what artist, but it was a song I knew and I knew I wanted, so there was no need to preview it. However while buying that song, Pinoyboy recommended another song by the artist. I did a search on Amazon and found the song. I clicked the preview button and nothing happened I was quite disappointed, but since it was a song recommended by a trusted source, I bought it. The songs downloaded, they did not add to iTunes… I had to do that manually, but the real disappointment came when I tried to listen to the song. Sure it was the song, but it was an instrumental piano version. Amazon had in no way labeled the song as such, so I headed over to iTunes and sure enuff the song was marked as clear as day as a instrumental piano only version. They also had several versions of the song not just one. I was disappointed in Amazon and bought the song from iTunes.

They needs some more work!