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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
The blog post goes on to say that approximately 90% of the 4 million tracks in the Zune Marketplace are available in MP3 format. I don't know if that's something that has just changed tonight though, because the last time I checked I had a really hard time finding MP3s in the songs that I wanted - and that's why I purchase most of my digital music from Amazon's MP3 store. Still, I'm all for DRM-free music, so it's great to see them focusing hard on getting more MP3s into their catalog.
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To my understanding, this is new. There's a rumour that Apple is now engaged in discussions with the same distributors in hopes of having DRM-free versions of their tunes on the iTunes Store. Yep, the store wars are on.
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
So what do you think? Is this enough to make you want to sign up for a Zune Pass if you've been resisting up until now?
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My guess is whatever format they're available in on the Marketplace is the format you get to keep. It would seem odd for Microsoft to have a separate library of DRM-laden WMAs just for this purpose, although I've seen stranger things before.
If signing up for a Zune Pass wasn't such an arduous task outside North America, I'd be all over it.