The songs sound great and come with high-resolution album art. Sync your iPods, and the new music shows up there, too. When you download music with Amazon MP3 Downloader, it simply shows up in iTunes, as you’d expect, with no manual importing or additional action required on the user’s part. Music is easy to find, easy to buy, and easy to download once you have the Amazon MP3 Downloader installed. There’s a very high “it just works” factor here. This means, assuming you have iTunes configured to copy files when importing (which is the default), that you get two copies of the songs: one in the ~/Music/Amazon MP3/ folder, and one inside your iTunes library folder, which, by default, is ~/Music/iTunes/. Amazon MP3 Downloader also opens the files in iTunes, importing them into your iTunes library. Amazon MP3 Downloader then begins downloading the tracks from the album.īy default, tracks are stored in a new “Amazon MP3” sub-folder inside the Music folder in your home folder. amz file, which opens in Amazon MP3 Downloader. When you purchase albums from Amazon, your browser downloads a. As far as I can tell, though, the only thing it installs is an application called Amazon MP3 Downloader in your top-level Applications folder. Reminiscent of Google’s installer for Google Desktop for Mac, unfortunately, there’s no indication of what the installer is going to install. When you download it, you get a disk image containing an installer. When purchasing entire albums, however, Amazon requires the use of a helper application called Amazon MP3 Downloader. When you purchase singles, you can download them directly via your web browser. The music is completely DRM-free, encoded at a very respectable 256 kbps, includes a ton of songs from major record labels, and offers terrific software support for Mac OS X. The new Amazon MP3 Store looks like no previous iTunes Store rival. The Amazon MP3 Store and Amazon MP3 Downloader Tuesday, 25 September 2007

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