See also: Map of iTunes availability Pricingīetween the two services, pricing is more or less the same. ITunes is available in France, Germany, UK, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Canada, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. Any music player will play these files.Īs of 2011, The Amazon MP3 service is available for consumers in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, and Japan.

īoth Apple and Amazon sell songs without DRM and in open formats, AAC and MP3 respectively.

It achieves better sound quality than the MP3 format when compared at the same bit-rate. m4a extension.ĪAC was devised as the successor to the MP3 standard. While Amazon sells songs in the MP3 format with a 256 kbit/s variable bit-rate, iTunes songs are encoded 256 kbit/s AAC streams in an mp4 wrapper, using the. In comparison, Apple says the iTunes Store now contains over 6 million songs. Amazon MP3 offers DRM-free downloads of over 2 million songs from 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels.

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