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Browse iTunes for music, then buy from Amazon

Mark Frauenfelder at 1:41 pm Tue, Nov 4, 2008

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Advantageous is a script that lets you search the iTunes store and then buy the MP3s on Amazon.

Browse through the iTunes Store, just as usual. Or use iTunes Genius feature to find new music.

When you find something you want, click on Get MP3 from Amazon in the iTunes Script Menu.

Advantageous mp3 takes you to the artist's or album's Amazon MP3 site. You can buy the music DRM-free and in better quality.

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  • BukaHobbit

    Steve Jobs says hipsters all like DRM. Why the need for this work-around?

  • jmcnichols

    I’m guessing this will be cratered by the next iTunes update.

  • maxximoo

    I….love this.

  • Bionicrat2

    Great find! I’ve got a couple of good scripts going in iTunes already for artwork stuff, so I’m happy to find more. This is something I already do (due to the pathetic amount of iTunes Plus songs)so it really will save some time. Thanks for posting!

  • ikelleigh

    Ha! I do this exact thing all the time. I also use Rhapsody if the music isn’t available on Amazon yet.

  • danbanana

    i know it’s not as guerilla, but mediamonkey added a similar feature in their last update. very handy for finding album art.

    guerilla. mediamonkey. see what i did there?

  • lotuseater

    iTunes actually has a pretty good amount of DRM-free music available now via iTunes Plus (under the quick links tab). Supposedly it’s higher bit rate, too.

  • JacobDavis

    Awesome. As long as iTunes keeps enforcing the policies that make me unable to move my music around on my computers, I’ll keep on buying from Amazon, and this makes it even easier.

  • Philipp Lenssen

    … except that Amazon MP3, as opposed to the iTunes Store, only works in the US (last time I checked)… which makes this solution worse for most parts of the world.

  • Jim O’Connell

    Why don’t they just make it “Download this song with LimeWire”?
    That way you get no DRM and no regional restrictions…

  • Kyle Armbruster

    If only I could use the Amazon MP3 store from outside the US…

    Actually, I used to be able to, and my friend still can, but for some reason they’ve gotten wise to my location and say no.

  • Hubert Figuiere

    As Jin said, “Download this song with LimeWire” would be more appropriate for the majority of the people as today Amazon MP3 service is not accessible outside the USofA.

  • Kyle Goetz

    I could have sworn iTunes offered DRM-free music now. Oh well. I hardly buy music (podcasts are sufficient) and when I do, I definitely don’t buy /heavily compressed/ music.