{"id":23227,"date":"2007-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/amazonmp3\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T06:00:00","slug":"amazonmp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/amazonmp3\/","title":{"rendered":"AmazonMP3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/163856011\/ref=topnav_storetab_dmusic\/102-8673848-3740964\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/blog_images\/20070927_amazonmp3.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"123\" ><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twit.tv\/mbw\">MacBreak Weekly<\/a> Ep. 59 this morning, and they were talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/163856011\/ref=topnav_storetab_dmusic\/102-8673848-3740964\">Amazon.com MP3 store<\/a>, so I decided to check it out. It&#8217;s pretty awesome. So simple to use, and songs are mostly 89 or 99 cents to download. They are DRM-free, and are encoded at 256kbps. It&#8217;s so nice to be able to just download an mp3, no strings attached, and then transfer it to any music  player or music library. This is a really great alternative to the iTunes Store, especially because the iTunes Store on a Windows machine is slow as a dog if you have a large library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was listening to MacBreak Weekly Ep. 59 this morning, and they were talking about the Amazon.com MP3 store, so I decided to check it out. It&#8217;s pretty awesome. So simple to use, and songs are mostly 89 or 99 cents to download. They are DRM-free, and are encoded at 256kbps. It&#8217;s so nice to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/amazonmp3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AmazonMP3<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-62D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}