10 cents per song was a limited time offer. It's over apparently. Songs that were 10 cents yesterday are up to 90 cents today. Pricing is dynamic. For example, the no doubt album, when the 10 cent sale was in effect, had the It's My Life track at 19 cents. However the whole album was $1.50 (15 songs). Now it's $8.60 and all songs are 90cents each.
Only complaint is it is HELLA tedious to add buy 15 tracks.
Some albums you can buy the whole album at 1 time, others you can't. And of those that you can buy the whole album, it may or may not be offered as a single download. You might still have to download a list of individual songs.
Is everything offered as both mp3 and WMA, or does it just depend? So far, all I can see are WMA files.
Major label artists are WMA. Inde artists are MP3 for the most part.
How does the license file work? Does it limit the # of times you can play it or does it limit where the file can be transferred or what?
The license terms are specific to the track. Per their FAQ, you will always have at least 10 burns to CD, and unlimited non-expiring play. Most titles I saw had either unlimited or limited to 3 transfers to a portable device. Each listing shows 2 icons that show it can be burned and/or transferred (to the left of the price).
If I burn it to CD does it still have a license attached?
No. It's a straight audio CD at that point. BTW, you use Windows Media Player 9 w/Roxio applet to burn. (File -> Copy... -> to Audio CD). This applet had a problem on my computer a search at Roxio's site had me download a engine update. Still had problems. I found that 1) I MUST had a blank CD in the drive BEFORE you start even the "preparing" step (you hit burn after that) and 2) it may take 2 or 3 tries before it works. Don't know if the failed attempts are counting against me or not. It might be why they give you 10 burns.
128Kbps isn't THAT bad, is it?
It's 128K WMA in most files. That is a bit better than 128K MP3. A couple of us did this at work, and it seemed to sound fine to us. One of the programmers I work with is also a musician, and the sound quality was acceptable to him (3 of the album I bought were requests from him).
The price was great...now it's ok. For $10 via paypal, I got 7 complete albums ($1 - $1.50 each) plus a few individual tracks. Can't beat that (and not venture into legal gray areas anyway).