Browse iTunes for music, then buy from Amazon

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, November 4, 2008 1:39 PM | permalink

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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#1 posted by jmcnichols

, November 4, 2008 1:46 PM

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

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#2 posted by maxximoo , November 4, 2008 1:54 PM

I....love this.

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#3 posted by ikelleigh , November 4, 2008 2:23 PM

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

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#4 posted by danbanana , November 4, 2008 2:29 PM

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?

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#5 posted by lotuseater , November 4, 2008 2:40 PM

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.

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#6 posted by Philipp Lenssen

, November 4, 2008 3:13 PM

... 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.

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#7 posted by Jim O'Connell

, November 4, 2008 4:45 PM

Why don't they just make it "Download this song with LimeWire"?
That way you get no DRM and no regional restrictions...

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#8 posted by Hubert Figuiere

, November 4, 2008 6:24 PM

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.

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#9 posted by Bionicrat2 , November 4, 2008 11:32 PM

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!

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#10 posted by BukaHobbit , November 5, 2008 8:40 AM

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

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#11 posted by JacobDavis

, November 5, 2008 9:37 AM

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.

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#12 posted by Kyle Armbruster , November 5, 2008 2:50 PM

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.

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#13 posted by Kyle Goetz

, November 5, 2008 3:52 PM

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.