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Archive for April 28th, 2006

SharpMusique has been around for a while, but I just got around to posting about it. It’s a very light-weight, cross-platform alternate front-end to the iTunes Music Store! It’s surprisingly full-featured:

Features:

• Preview songs
• Signup for an account
• Buy songs and albums
• Redownload songs that you bought with SharpMusique
• Redeem Pepsi caps
• Redeem gift certificates

Of course, this is more useful under Windows, where one could actually llisten to the music that you purchased. But this does make it easy for Linux users to search the iTMS and buy the music they want. Then it’s just a matter of firing up iTunes under either WINE or vmplayer to listen to the music, burn it to CD, and then rip it to a more-friendly format.