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Mar 09, 2006

Charlie Hunter DRM-Free Downloads

Charlie Hunter's rockin' new album Copperopolis [B000E1XO8A] came out a few weeks ago. We saw him perform the new stuff at his annual x-mas gig at Yoshi's, and it's a fun departure from his recent jazzy albums.

Hunter has a long history of offering free downloads of his live performances, and now he's selling DRM [WikiPedia] -free versions of his recent albums on his web site . Even better, he's got the pricing model just about right: Around 10 bucks for the album in MP3 or AAC format, and around 13 bucks for the album encoded in the lossless FLAC format.

Although I wish the MP3 version was a little cheaper, you've got to commend an artist for doing everything so right:

Sell music online in DRM-free, unencrypted formats that work on all systems and portable players
Don't charge full price for lossy compression schemes like MP3
Offer music in lossless encoding formats (it is the future of online music)

Charlie Hunter Trio - Copperopolis

(Some online music services also get it - take a peek at AllOfMP3.com and eMusic.com)

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