Fed up with iTunes sound popping etc (fine in windows media player!) so was wondering what other on line store are good for downloads. I don't want the free sites as they are a pain but proper companies like HMV or Virgin that charge 79p per song...sort of thing. Who has the biggest catalogue?

allofmp3.com
supposedly legal, based in russia, paid for by paypal and has a huge catalogue.
You pay per bandwidth.

not what you're after but I use yamipod, its freeware, it has no store but is great as a standalone ipod client. you don't have to install any software it runs from an exe, so it can't take over your machine and fup it up. you can drag and drop music into your ipod and the id3 tag manager is great.

Id second allofmp3.com, use it regularly, love the fact you can chose the encoding you want.

napster went legit, think its funded by the record companies. Don't know what its like. In fact I went out and bought CD's the other day. First time in years. They have come down to about £7 in supermarkets.

Had a look at allofmp3.com and it does look good....and cheap!!!!!!!!!

Only thing is when i seached for artists it came up with "Error CheckCache" message!?!?!?! not sure if it's me or them?

My wife used napster before she bought an ipod, it was brilliant, same price as itunes, they had an amazing back catelogue of stuff. She would still use napster if she hadn't bought herself an apple G5, which won't work with the napster software.

It's firefox, works fine in internet exploder.
Damn Microsoft and their broken interpretation of standards and lazy developers.
Mind you, I can't be @rsed to make my site work in IE7, if M$ can't get CSS working then people can go use a proper browser

I don't have firefox!!

Then napster will work for you just fine! (It is a brill site, if your a pc user).

Trouble with some of these sites is that you need to pay a monthly fee which i don't. at least Napster is 79p a track.

[Edited on 13/10/06 by donut]