Services

Pirin-sings analyzed the services that sell digital music and are presenting the results. This compares the subcription music services that let you access an entire music library of up to 2 million songs.

All of these services offer a music library of at least a million songs to users. The product offerings are generally broken down into three main buckets: PC listening only, “to go” which allows moving music to a music device, and an optional download service to allow permanent ownership of the song (with DRM) and that can be burned to a CD.

Overall, the best service based on pure stats is Virgin Digital, which boasts the largest catalog of music (2 million songs). Unlike all of the other services, Virgin charges one price for both the PC and to go versions. Virgin also has excellent additional features like user reviews of music create a social atmosphere.

All of the services require the download and use of a special player, except AOL, which uses a web based approach along with the Windows Media Player.

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