News More online Music Store commentry from PCMag

PCMag looks at the online stores in general in it's "Online Music Stores: Music to Your Ears?" article:

Early efforts to bring music online fell into two camps: illicit file-sharing setups such as Napster and Kazaa or industry-sanctioned subscription services such as Pressplay and hapsody. But as the tepid response to the latter showed, users didn't want to pay an ongoing monthly fee for service with strings attached-such as no transfers to a CD or portable player, having songs "expire" after a set time, and so on.

Instead, as Apple iTunes Music Store for the Mac showed, users wanted to download as much or as little as they liked and pay only for what they bought. Now that the winning formula has been hit upon, it's rapidly being improved."

Full article here. Then if you feel so inclined, you can check out their review of the iTunes Music store for Windows:

"If you're a Windows user with a new iPod, the iTunes Music Store should be your first destination. If you're more interested in acquiring music to play from your PC or burn to CD, it's also a fine choice. But if you already own another type of portable music player that doesn't support AAC files, one of the others here is a better choice."

Full review here