I guess the majority of the CD Freaks visitors has done it, download MP3 files and decode them and burn them to a CD. If you have downloaded copyrighted music from major record labels this is however illegal.
Several companies are currently in the market to offer you these songs for a fee, allowing you to legally burn them to a CD.
A new player in the market is Full Audio, that is currently offering internet radio:
Operated by start-up Full Audio, the long-promised service joins an increasingly crowded field of hopefuls trying to temp Net music fans to trade in their post-Napster file-swapping services for legal music downloads. |
The small company is betting that distributing alongside the biggest radio corporation in the business will give it enough clout with consumers to compete with major label-backed rivals Pressplay and MusicNet.
Analysts say the Clear Channel radio sites could indeed be a valuable home for music subscription services. But they're not ready to give FullAudio and its giant partner the green light yet.
"It will be interesting to see how the Clear Channel audience reacts to this," said P.J. McNealy, research director with GartnerG2, a division of the Gartner research firm. "Radio has traditionally been free."
FullAudio's Clear Channel sites will offer 50 songs download per month for $7.49, or 100 downloaded songs for $14.99. Those songs can't be burned to CD or transferred to an MP3 player, however.
Source: Cnet.com
