AllTunes

While the rest of the world enjoys the ability to purchase and download individual songs legally via the iTunes Store, we Kiwis are stuck with the choice of either downloading tracks illegally, or buying CDs and ripping them onto our computers (which is a legal grey area). AllOfMP3 (http://www.allofmp3.com) has released a beta of its latest desktop music library and download tool allTunes. Although the name is an obvious play on iTunes, those familiar with AlloFMP3 will know that they are infamous for extremely cheap, high quality and quasi-legal music downloads on the web. allTunes is a windows interface to the AllOFMP3 library, allowing users to find and download high quality music easily. It looks and acts a lot like iTunes. The model is simple, download the application, signup for an account, find music (amongst the 40,000 albums they have) click and download. The price is US2c per megabyte downloaded, which works out to be around $1-1.50USD per album. The reason the prices are so low is because AllOFMP3 and allTunes operate in Russia, where they claim they are complying with local copyright law and paying royalties back to artists and labels. The legality of the service is questionable, but they have been in operation for years now with no seeming threat to their existence. Check out allTunes at http://www.alltunes.com/

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