Amazon or iTunes

[admin_exported]

Discounting price, which is better Amazon mp3 or iTunes?

I found that the former is in general 256 vbr, but couldn't see anything on itunes regarding bit rates.

 

[idc]

Original itunes was 128kbps and you could get plus tracks at 256(or thereabouts)Kbps. Now I am sure more or less everything is at the plus rate. Soundwise, I cannot tell the difference between my Amazon and itunes downloads.

 

[John Duncan]

Spotify

 

[idc]

JD is right. Spotify is 320kbps, but more than that I am sure the Ogg Vorbis compression is better than that used by itunes and Amazon. In my experience there is far more life in tracks streamed from Spotify.

 

[Anonymous]

good call on spotify, but I'm thinking of buying a couple of tracks I know I wont want the albums they belong to (or more accurately i don't want to pay the money to find out)

 

[John Duncan]

Then listen to the album on The Big S first!

 

[John Duncan]

But other than that, I'd go by price - they're both 256k, and the amazon file thingie (I'm guessing they're cheaper) loads it into iTunes for you if I remember...