BuyMusic.com

Well, the first serious PC-based contender for Apples iTunes system has arrived, with the launch of BuyMusic.com. Any good? The folks over at MeFi seem pretty nonplussed (emusic seems to be the choice of download music site for that mob -- I must give it a go), having discovered a bunch of limitations, quirks, and outright bugs in the way the site operates.

One thing I found instantly was that it's pretty Opera-unfriendly. The search engine refuses to work with my browser of choice -- a backwards slash '\' instead of a '/' in the search engines form URL confusing the browser to jump to a non-existent server. And, this is quite odd, when I did manage to find some NZ-based tunes (Pacifier's debut album), clicking through to the album details gets me a 'No results found for your search' page in Opera, but does work in IE. Go figure.

General consenus seems to be that when the PC-version of iTunes rolls out, it's going to be a winner. Time will tell, but I suspect once Microsoft sort out their notoriously bad rights management and interface issues, they may be able to swamp iTunes with sheer weight of numbers.
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