Music fans, rejoice! Napster just dropped DRM from all its music files, letting purchased songs play on any device, including iPods, and without a monthly fee too!
The new offering comes alongside a streamlined interface for the music store, and means all six million tracks in its library are available in DRM-free MP3 format.
In comparison, Apple’s iTunes store has just two million tracks available without DRM, and encodes them as AAC files, which are less widely recognised by non-Apple MP3 players and Windows Media Player software.
Other improvements to Napster come with its new web interface, which will work just fine on Windows, Macs and Linux. Previously, users needed special windows-only software to download music, but that’s history now.
30 second previews are available for all tracks in Napster’s store, while monthly subscribers to its “all you can eat” packages can listen to full tracks direct from their web browser.
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