Puretracks

Puretracks

Infobox Online music service
service_name = Puretracks
service_logo =
service_

opened = October 14, 2003 (Canada)
October 13, 2004 (USA)
platforms = Microsoft Windows
format = WMAs and MP3s
restrictions =
catalogue = 1,300,000+
preview = 30 seconds
streaming =
protocol = Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http://)
availability = Canada, USA
features =
support =
homepage = [http://www.puretracks.com www.puretracks.com]
footnotes =

Puretracks is a Canadian online music store, which launched officially on October 14, 2003. Owned by Moontaxi Inc., the service currently offers over 1,300,000 songs mainly from Canadian music distributors and others, as well. The store is also customized to various retail outlet's needs, and re-branded, though with the same selection. One such re-brand was Future Shop's (Best Buy Inc) Bonfire service, though Best Buy Inc shut down their Bonfire service on May 14, 2008. It is available to Canadians and Americans (as of October 13, 2004) The music in the store is sold at 192 kbit/s WMA and MP3 files. [ [http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/21/tech-puretracksdrmfreemp3-20070221.html Puretracks offers unlocked music ] ]

Puretracks offers a service similar to Apple's iTunes Music Store.

As of February 20, 2007, Puretracks is offering some portions of its collection in MP3 format without DRM.

DRM

Puretracks offers the majority of its music in the WMA protected audio format. Puretracks has started to offer a selected portion of its collection in the unprotected MP3 for the same price as protected tracks. [ [http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/21/tech-puretracksdrmfreemp3-20070221.html Puretracks offers unlocked music ] ]

Mac compatibility

For Canadian users there is now a [http://mp3.puretracks.com website] dedicated to Mac users.

References

External links

* [http://www.puretracks.com/ Puretracks Canada]
* [http://us.puretracks.com/ Puretracks USA]
* [http://corporate.puretracks.com/ Puretracks Corporate site]


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