Downloading MP3 songs from sites such as Amazon.

www.Amazon.com is a great site to download MP3 songs from and their new MP3 music downloads store has millions of songs and they are adding thousands more every day. Amazon MP3 has millions of songs from your favourite artists and you can shop for their top downloads or new and future releases; browse by genre or by album price; or search by song, album or artist name.

Downloading songs is easy when you use the Amazon MP3 Downloader, which is a tiny helper application that adds your music downloads to your iTunes or Windows Media Player. All their songs are in MP3 format and are free from digital rights management, so you can play them in any music program and on any MP3 device including the iPod. You can browse by price or genre from the MP3 homepage and check out the top downloads or new and future releases; or search for songs, albums or artists using the search box at the top of any Amazon MP3 page. You can also listen to 30 second samples of songs by clicking the "play" button next to a song title, or hear all samples from a song list by clicking the "Preview All" button.
 
To buy and download, Amazon MP3 uses the same shopping basket functionality as the rest of their site and so you click "Buy" and your downloads will be added to your shopping basket. Then click on the basket icon at the top right of any Amazon page to see the contents of your basket or to buy your MP3s. You can also buy with 1-Click®.

The best way to download music from Amazon MP3 is with the Amazon MP3 Downloader, which is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux; and the tiny helper application allows you to download entire albums with one click and automatically adds your music to iTunes or the Windows Media Player. Once you have downloaded your music, you can use whichever media player application you prefer to manage it, such as iTunes or Windows Media Player.

Songs from Amazon MP3 can be played on any MP3 capable device, including iPods, Zunes, Zens, iPhones, RAZRs, BlackBerrys, and most media-enabled mobile phones. As the files are free of digital rights management software, you can burn your songs to CDs, play them on all your computers, and transfer them to all your devices. Songs are encoded at 256 kbps, which means you get high audio quality at a manageable file size.

The MP3 files that you purchase from Amazon.co.uk, come in an industry standard format that is widely compatible with most media player applications, hand-held music devices, and some CD and DVD players. You will need a media player installed on your computer or a hand-held MP3 player to enjoy your Amazon MP3 Music purchases and to add your purchased songs to the media libraries associated with those applications. If you haven’t got a media player, you can easily download Windows Media Player or Apple iTunes.