Hello

Me and my brother both want to start to legally download music, as downloading files illigally is increasingly worrying, I have been using itunes on and off for about a year now but I find it expensive,

I own a iPod 30GB Video and my brother owns a standard mp3/wma flash player, we was looking at http://www.virgin.net/music/digitaldownloads/ but it isnt compatble with ipod! and £9.99 a month for unlimited streaming and downloading of albums and music sounded like a good deal

Does anyone recommmend a unlimited service which downloads tracks into mp3 format or a format that works with my iPod and my brothers flashplayer

www.allofmp3.com do really cheap downloads, but their legal standpoint is illegal in the UK, legal in russia, and a nuclear threat in the US i think

thanks but I would rather have a legal unlimited service!

This may be lame, but doesn't napster do this? I don't know if they support iPod's though. I also heard amazon was coming out with something, so maybe they'll have some support for iPod in there.

amazon released their movie and tv show service today, not sure about a music service though...just did a search on google for music downloads and found so many: tesco, woolworths, walmart, napster, mtv, hmv, amazon (for free - though mostly unsigned artists)...tis ridiculous, talk about a flooded market.

The cheapest downloads are here.

www.allofmp3.com is definatly on shaky ground as far as legallity. You could always download your music from iTunes then rip out the nasty DRM so you can play it on your other media player.

iTunes is too expensive there is cheaper alternative thing I will take a look napster and probably remove DRM

ads will soon pay for all music downloads dont worry the day of free downloads legally is coming

yeah, there was a site being launched in the US with ad payed for music soon, can't remember the name though

If that site comes out with iPod support, and cheap movie downloads they're gonna stomp apple.

I think paying for music is a good thing but 79p for a track is a rip off a standard CD consists of 12 tracks which is £9.48 a album... you can just use Napster for £9.99 a month unlimited downloads then just remove the DRM ... and you can have 100's a tracks a month for less then £10 bargain! people say the DRM stripper is piracy but tbh it isn't... you pay for the music and you want the freedom to use it on any media device why use apple monopolistic ACC format? or be forced to use expensive services of iTunes if you are a iPod user? when you can simply go for a cheaper legal method like Virgin Digital or Napster and strip music, in the end the artists still get their money. Its not like you are sharing the stripped media... I use it for just my personal use

Personally, I would use Napster's service. It's the best I've seen.

Unfortunately the ipod is locked into itunes for drm music, completely. Check for playforsure compat. with your brother's player though, he may have some hope yet! Emusic downloads are drm free, and thus playable on your ipod, but their selection is pretty obscure for the most part. Lots of smaller/emerging artists/grps.
I think the BEST service I have come across is Virgin Digital, if for the simple fact that you get music insurance - ie: if you lose your entire collection in a hard drive crash etc, you can re-download it again at no cost at all to you. It keeps a track of everything you've downloaded to own forever.
However, this is playforsure drm, and again, won't work on your ipod.
Depending on how much you love your ipod, I'd suggest you exchange it or sell it and get either a playforsure compatible mp3 player, such as a creative labs zen vision or something OR get the zune - MS has it's own subscription download service with about the same number of tracks as most of the other services and it'slike 14 or 15 a month. If you really want to stick with the ipod, then you'll have to go with a service that doesn't drm tag their music, like emusic and, well, allofmp3 which is unfortunately quite illegal according to just about everybody but them.

Here's the site that gives you most if not all playsforsure devices available. You should be careful when buying new devices however, as we don't quite know what the future holds for this drm technology, as MS has both dropped the tech, as well as closed its own service that used it.

http://www.playsforsure.com/

Good Luck.