Save money and be environmentally friendly download your music at play.com

February 28, 2008 – 8:17 pm

Downloading music from the internet is becoming more common these days, and one very reliable source for this is play.com who have recently introduced a section where you can choose to buy by downloading.

Downloading is good for many reasons, firstly you can pick and choose individual songs if you wish to, rather than spending money buying the whole album if you only want 3 or 4 songs, then that’s what you can opt for.

Another very good advantage to downloading music rather than buying it on CD is that it is often cheaper this way, and saving money is always a good thing.

One further very good reason for choosing to buy downloads rather than CD’s is that the environmental cost is much less. Transferring the data from the Play.com site to your PC, and from there to an mp3 player, or a phone, or any other device uses a lot less energy than manufacturing a CD, and a CD Case, a slip cover for it, and then the packaging needed to send it from the Factory to the Store, and from there to your home.

Play.com is a site which is known for it’s good quality, reliability and good prices. Introducing the option for their customers to download music is an environmentally sound choice and one which should be applauded. Tracks cost from just 65p each, and all tracks are in mp3 format.

Visit Play.com digital download centre

A lot of people who’ve never downloaded music before may be wondering if the quality will be as good, well all the music files at playdigital (play.com’s download centre) are recorded at either 192Kbit or 320Kbit. The 192Kbit tracks deliver sound quality that is almost indistinguishable from CD quality, and the 320Kbit tracks are of much higher quality, so in fact what you’ll be getting will be either as good as, or better than what you’d get if you bought a CD. How long downloading the tracks takes will depend on the size of the file which is dependant on the length of the song and the bit rate (320Kbit recorded songs are slightly larger than 192Kbit ones), and on the speed of your internet connection, but if you’re on broadband then it’s not likely to take more than a minute or so per song, unless your broadband is very slow.

Although downloading from some sources on the internet is not legal, buying material from a registered dealer like play.com is fine, as all downloads available at PlayDigital are fully licensed by the copyright holders so making downloading from them is 100% legal. Downloading from play.com is only available at the moment to people who have a UK billing address. Once you have downloaded a file from PlayDigital it is yours to keep. If you lose it, or delete it by mistake from your hard drive, then you can log back on to Play.com and re-download it from the ‘my downloads’ section of your account, which is of course something you couldn’t do if you lost a CD, or it got scratched or broken.

Visit Play.com digital download centre 

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