iTunes

I have recently joined iTunes, and I think it is a fantastic service - the best place to go to get legal music downloads, partly because there are many exclusives on the service, for example Madonna's new album is available for download complete with video for her new single, and a digital book, whereas on other download services you just get the songs. You can also download music videos, at twice the price of a song, and Podcasts for free.

If you have not got iTunes I recommend that you do. You can download it from http://www.itunes.co.uk. Not only is iTunes a good music store, but it is also a good media player for your PC, and uses Apple QuickTime to play videos. It also features a Party Shuffle mode, which plays your favourite songs in a party mix style, and can create a playlist based on what you want in it, such as 15 minutes of music by x artist

I have one gripe with this service though. I recently purchased Hung Up by Madonna, and decided that I would to have the song on my mobile phone's music player my Sony K750i can be used as an MP3 player, and take removable memory cards to boost the memory available to the phone. Unfortunately iTunes will only let you use music you have bought on an iPod, an iTunes phone or burn it to CD, which is no good for users of other digital music players or non iTunes mobile phones (many high end mobile models are coming with built in MP3 players). I think it is time that iTunes supported more digital MP3 players, as I think if they did that they could sew up the market for legal music downloads!