LimeWire has followed BitTorrent’s lead to open up an online music store. LimeWire music store’s catalogue currently features about half million DRM-free tracks from a range of independent and small labels. The store is currently in beta, but not fully loaded. LimeWire team promises to add thousands of new tracks on a daily basis.
All DRM-free tracks are encoded at 256kbps MP3 and sells at $.99 per track. The store also offers an attractive subscription-like model which starts at $9.99 per month of 25 downloads, 50 downloads for $14.99 or 75 downloads for $19.99. 75 tracks for $19.99 translate to $.27 per track, which seems pretty incredible.
LimeWire Store is presently available for US only; international version is expected to arrive sometime later. The store offers no integration with LimeWire client at the moment, but they do have plans to do it later. Maybe, they’ll integrate context based links into the client. I’d really like to see how this works out for LimeWire, once the integration is done. Perhaps, they’ll get the taste of their own medicine, if people start sharing songs illegally.
Link: LimeWire Music Store [via: P2P Blog]
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