Amazon Mp3 - Why It's Better Than iTunes For Buying Mp3 Downloads

 

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By Johnny Moon
A lot of people seem to think that the iTunes store is the only place where someone can purchase mp3 downloads but that's far from being true. There are actually many stores where mp3s are sold including the Amazon MP3 store which I believe to be a better option for most people.
There are a few things about the way the iTunes store is set up that really annoys me and it's those things that lead me to try out Amazon instead.
iTunes Store Negatives

• You must use the iTunes player in order to use the iTunes store easily. I don't like this player because it's a very bulky program. I prefer to use winamp.
• Their files are actually AAC files, not mp3 files. This can cause some compatibility issues.
• The pricing is not very good.

Amazon Store Positives

• You can use these mp3s with any type of player. There's no restrictions, no hoops to jump through. The system is very easy to use.
• The files are high quality mp3 files. While iTunes has recently been increasing the quality of the files available there, Amazon has always had high quality files available.
• The pricing is far superior. They have a huge selection of mp3 albums for just $5 a piece! And even beyond these specially priced albums, their usual prices are lower.
• They often run specials with absurdly low prices such as the recent "99 essential pieces by Chopin for just $1.99" promotion.

Sometimes iTunes Does Have Exclusives
The only real negative to using Amazon for all mp3 downloading is that iTunes does sometimes have exclusives such as the recent cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon by The Flaming Lips. This album was not available anywhere else.
On the other hand, sometimes Amazon has exclusives too. All things considered, I don't think it's a difficult choice.
Amazon MP3 has a large selection of $5 MP3 Albums.
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How to Buy MP3 Songs Online

Jekyll & Hyde (Original Broadway Cast Recording) 

By JJ Max

You've heard that many people buy MP3 songs online, and maybe you're now ready to give it a try. But how exactly do you buy MP3s online? There are several ways people get MP3 music online.

You can get MP3s online in a few different ways -- there are legal and illegal methods. Some people think that MP3 music is illegal, which is not true. MP3 is just a different format of music so the MP3 file type itself is not illegal. But the origin of MP3 music was through a controversial website, which was challenged in the courts for years before the courts deemed that particular website to be illegal. Since then, that original website, Napster, has changed its policies to adhere to the law.

Today there are many legal ways you can buy MP3 albums and songs online. By shopping at reputable sources, you can ensure that you are buying your music from a legitimate, legal website. You can buy licensed MP3 music buy paying for it through a legal website - either pay per song, album, or via a monthly membership fee. The legal MP3 websites have agreements in place to pay a portion of your money to the recording artists and companies.

It just makes sense to buy MP3 music legally. Those who try to download free music through clearly illegal websites, where you do not pay any fees to get music, are taking quite a few risks. Not only do they risk stiff fines for breaking the law, they also open up their computer to adware, spyware, and security issues by using these illegal and unsecured networks. You can buy MP3s online at legit websites for very reasonable prices, and for much less than cds - so in my opinion, it's well worth the small fee to do it legally and avoid the hassle and risks.

So where can you buy legal MP3 songs and albums online?

There are many legitimate websites where you can buy legal MP3 songs and albums. You can buy just one MP3 song or a full album at Amazon. And Yahoo Music Unlimited offers unlimited music for $6 a month. Other websites may offer a regular or one-time membership fee for unlimited MP3 music downloads.

Whichever website you use to buy MP3s -- you can be listening to your favorite music within a few minutes. If you're unsure, many of the sites offer a free trial, so consider testing it out over the free trial period. For more information on the free trials and the MP3 music websites featured in this article, please visit our website.

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How to Turn Vinyl Albums Into MP3 - What You Need to Begin

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By Timothy Arends
Whats the best way to convert LP music? Do you want to digitize your vinyl? That is, do you want to convert it into easy to store, easy to organize MP3 files? Maybe you want to add your music to iTunes or some other digital jukebox software. Maybe you want to use the genius feature, create playlists, play your song in any order, shuffle your music so you never have the same listening experience twice, play your music without fear of deterioration, fine songs instantly, burn them onto CDs and put them on your iPod for listening anywhere.


If so, you want to move your files from vinyl into the digital era. There are a number of ways to do this. You could repurchase all of your music -- if it's still available -- from the Amazon or the eye tunes music store, but at $.99 per song, this could get expensive. Or you could use a turntable that you may already own, plus the computer you already own, and some free audio recording software to convert the music you already own into digital format.


To digitize your music, you will need to have a little know-how, and that's what this article is all about. But it's not that hard; in fact, it's similar to making a tape recording.


Here's what you will need to get started:
* A turntable, phonograph, record player - whatever you want to call it - with a built-in preamp or a standalone preamp or receiver, if one isn't built-in
* A tape player (if you want to digitize tapes)
* Some LPs and 45s (or cassettes) to digitize
* Stereo RCA to 1/8 inch stereo mini plug cable (about 10 bucks at electronics stores)
* A computer with a sound input port, or a USB audio input device if your computer lacks one
* Audio recording software such as the open-source Audacity (free!)
* iTunes on your computer to play your music (also free!) or some other music player
Got what you need? Okay, let's get started.


Tim Arends covers all aspects of converting LPs into MP3s on his webpage at:


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How to Play Mary Had a Little Lamb on Piano

Irving Berlin: Songs in the Key of Black

By Bill Romer
In this article, you will not only learn how to play Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano, you will be able to play it in any key (if you want to). It's a very useful and fun exercise, if you let the concepts sink in a bit. On the other hand, if you just want to learn a quick and easy way to play the song, this article will also be for you.

OK, let's start with just the melody - we'll get to the chords in a minute. If you sing the tune to yourself - all the way through - you may notice that the very last line - "fleece was white as snow" - ends on a nice note - "snow" - that sounds very "final." That usually indicates the main key of the piece, and in this case that's true.

To simplify things, let's learn to play this song in the key of C first - that's usually going to be just the white keys. So, in the key of C, the word "snow" ends on C. Now, moving from "snow" to "Mary" of the first line of the song, you should be able to hear a jump - that's a major third. In this case, it's from C to E.
So, in the key of C, Mary Had A Little Lamb starts on E, which is the white key immediately to the right of the group of two black keys on the piano. It's best to start somewhere near the middle of the full piano keyboard - just above "middle C."
The entire song uses just 4 notes. In the key of C, those notes are C, D, E, and G. Starting on E, we have the melody:
E D C D E E E
D D D
E G G
E D C D E E E E
D D E D C
C, D and E are the white keys all next to each other, surrounding the group of two black keys. G is two white keys above E.

Now, simply play the notes above, with each note representing a syllable in the words of the song. So, "Ma - ry had" is played on E D C, and so on.

To make a nice left hand accompaniment to this song, we need just two chords: C major and G7. In the left hand, move down one octave from where you're playing the melody, and work on these chords:
C: C E G
G7: G B D F

We're going to break up these chords to play them in a rhythm for this song. We'll count the song as "one-and-two-and-three-and-four-and" to help us with the placement of the notes. In terms of the song, "Ma - ry had" lands on the "one-and-two," if you see what I mean.
So, the chords will be:
First measure (group of 4 beats):
Beat 1: C
"And" of beat 1: EG
Beat 2: G (below C)
"And" of beat 2: EG
(See how we've broken up the C major chord and simply alternate between the C and G in the bass?)
Beat 3: C
"And" of beat 3: EG
Beat 4: G
"And" of beat 4: EG
Next measure:
Beat 1: G
"And" of beat 1: DF
Beat 2: B
"And" of beat 2: DF
Beat 3: C
"And" of beat 3: EG
Beat 4: G
"And" of beat 4: EG
Next measure - repeat the first measure from above
Last measure:
Beat 1: G
"And" of beat 1: DF
Beat 2: B
"And" of beat 2: DF
Beat 3: C
"And" of beat 3: EG
Beat 4: EG (hold it)
Now, simply work on the left and right hands separately, then work on putting them together, matching up the beats that I've indicated.

If you really want to work on this, simply notice that, in terms of scale tones (numbered with 1 on the key of the scale, then 2, 3, 4...8 for the major scale), the melody can be thought of as:
3 2 1 2 3 3 3
2 2 2
3 5 5
3 2 1 2 3 3 3 3
2 2 3 2 1

And the chords used are simply the "I" chord (major chord corresponding to the key of the song) and the V7 chord (the dominant seven chord corresponding to the 5th above the key of the song). There's not enough room here to complete that part of the lesson, but it's a great place for you to start out on your own (if you like).

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Dancing on Broadway

In The Heights (Original Cast Recording)

By Jon E Jorgenson

I was having lunch with one of my best friends the other day and he said to me, "Jon, I wish I was more like you." This was not something that I was used to hearing so I asked him what he meant. He said, "I wish I took my dreams more seriously." This intrigued me so I asked him to elaborate, and he began to tell me that when he was little, he dreamed of dancing on Broadway. He was a dancer. And after going to school for dance and spending some time in New York, he wasn't getting any jobs, so he had stopped believing in his dream. He had stopped taking his desire seriously. He was now struggling with whether to give up his dream and find a nine to five, or to continue pursuing his passions and talents. In that moment, I had a clear answer for him.

Too many people in our society today die with their dreams and talents rotting away inside of them. It has risen to the point where one could call it an epidemic. We have lost our desire to live a life that believes in dreams and the possibility to make them reality. We have stopped taking our dreams seriously.

We live in a culture that is supposedly, 'Do it yourself'. Our country was founded on the idea of people who had a fantasy of a better life, so they would pick themselves up by their bootstraps and make that better life happen. But this so-called 'American dream' seems to have died away. So many people dream of greatness when they're younger, only to one day 'grow up' and realize that their dreams are foolish or unrealistic, so they commit themselves to the mindless low-level corporate scene for the rest of their lives in order to make ends meet. Why? Why do we do this?

Erwin McManus in his book Chasing Daylight says this about our dreams...

"There is a voice screaming inside my head, 'Don't sleep through your dreams!' Ever heard that voice? It calls you like a temptress to abandon the monotony of life and to begin an adventure. It threatens to leave you in the mundane if you refuse to risk all that you have for all that could be. If ignored, the voice dims to silent."

The seductive voice of dream led living is dimming so fast in our culture that most people can barely hear even a whisper anymore. Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes says that there is nothing new under the sun, and we are proving him right if we continue to allow our dreams to die instead of taking a risk to see them come true.

But now the question is, how? How do we fight this dream genocide? The answer is simple. Create. Create, create, create. In a culture where a multi-billion dollar corporation can be built and maintained off of a cellphone we have every facility we need in order to make any dream a reality. The question is, are you willing to take the risk?

Risk-takers are a dying breed in our culture. And by that I mean the good kind of risk taking, not the breaking the law and things of that nature. Those kinds of risk-takers are flourishing. The good kind of risk-takers who take their dreams by the horns and make them happen, these risk-takers are a dying breed. And once they become extinct, then the next step is for dreamers to become extinct. Do not let this happen. Create fellow dreamers, create. click to website >>>Broadway & Vocalists in MP3 Albums

Our society needs dreamers and risk-takers who desire to create a world where creativity flourishes and divine inspiration is morphed into earth-shaking vision. Let us begin to set our dreams free in creativity, so that one day, we can all dance on Broadway.

Jon Jorgenson

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