My Single Mom Life

Have any of you checked out Amazon MP3 downloads yet?

Our house drinks a ton of Pepsi products, (we do drink Coke too, it's really whatever is on sale) and so we've been getting the Pepsi codes, which you enter on your Amazon MP3 Pepsi page.
If you're logged into your Amazon account, it's automatically synced up, and you enter your codes.
The codes are basically 1 point each, it's 5 points per mp3 download.
They even have digital tv show downloads which are 12 Pepsi points each.

So anyway, I've been wracking up the points for weeks now, and I entered all the codes, and had enough for 10 mp3s.
Not bad.
So I go through and start picking out songs to download.
I find one I want, and click buy with my Pepsi points.
It has this Amazon downloader tool thing, and then it automatically opens itunes and deposits your songs in your itunes library, as well as a new folder in your my music folder, labeled Amazon mp3.

I really do not like that itunes automatically opens, and that's where it goes.
It would be a lot better if we could determine where the file goes.
I even tried saving to disk and then opening the Amazon downloader to unpack the file, and it still opens itunes.

Yo! Amazon!
Not everyone has an ipod, and not everyone uses itunes as their default music library.
Let the consumer decide where and how we open our music files we bought and paid for.
And yes, I did buy them.
I drink like gallons of Diet Pepsi.
I go through a 12 pack every 3 days for one lousy freaking point.
I'd say I earned the right to decide where I put my purchased music files, and how I open them.
Thanks.
Having to copy each and every file, and then paste it into my music folder on drive D, is a step that could totally be avoided if they just let us decide where we put them.
The only reason I even have itunes is so that Quicktime will work.
I have never shopped at itunes, and probably never will.
And ya know, itunes already has a music store, why do they need to have another one on Amazon?
Why couldn't Amazon just let people buy music without the extra crap of itunes?
Huh?
HUH!?!?

Oh, sorry, where was I?
Oh yeah, the actual mp3 files.
They are real, they are not protected, which means that they will play on every mp3 player, and not just ipods.

There's another thing that really annoys me about downloading music files.
The way they are labeled.
I hate the track number first, then the artist, then the song title.
They all look like this;
14- Janes Addiction & Ice_T- Dont call me nigger whitey
Oh, that may be a bad example. Sorry, I just chose at random from the mp3s I have.
Let's pick another one.
05-Tool-Forty Six & 2.
See that number in front?
Hate it.

Why?
Because I don't keep all my music in separate album folders, I keep all my mp3s in one huge folder, and I list it alphabetically.
So this number crap, makes every single download with a number, appear in the list by the songs with numbers first, and then alphabetically by band name.
Sooo, I have about 10 songs with 01, 10 songs with 02, 10 songs with 03 etc etc etc, and then, it goes into alphabetically by band name.
See, like this;
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I don't like that.
The OCD in me absolutely hates it!
It's not perfect alphabetical order, and I cannot stand it, so I have slowly been working on renaming every single one of those files, to remove the number and make sure the band name is first, then song title.
And can you see?
Some of the files don't even have the band's name in the file name!
I have to add those.
Talk about time consuming, but I have to do it.
I really cannot leave them as is, I get so annoyed looking at that list like that.

Ok, ran off on a tangent.
Sorry about that!
This is about Amazon's mp3 downloads.
They are decent priced, single songs range from .89 cents to .99 cents, and full cds range from $4.99 to $9.00 and up.
They download quickly, the quality of the files is really good.
My only issue is with itunes automatically opening. (itunes opens, and then pops up every single time the Amazon downloader finishes downloading and moves the file to your itunes library)
If Amazon would get rid of that, and just let us put the files where we want and open them with whatever player we want, I'd be totally 100% on board with it.

Will I use it again?
Probably, but it'd be a lot better if they got rid of the itunes library opening and popping up after every song finishes downloading.