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Thursday, December 18, 2003

Wal-Mart launches online music store - 88 cents a song

Wal-Mart has launched its own online music store, the cunningly named Wal-Mart Music Downloads, and is undercutting Apple iTunes and the rest of the competition by offering tracks for just 88 cents apiece (albums are typically $9.44). Like all non-Apple stores, Wal-Mart Music Downloads requires Windows Media Player 9 Series and its superior WMA 9 audio format. Wal-Mart's songs are encoded at 128-bits, which is good (not as good as MusicMatch, though) and can be played on only one PC but can be burned on to up 10 CDs, and copied to any WMA-compliant portable player that supports DRM (that is, virtually every player but the iPod).

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