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Well, if you want me to refer you I'll have to do it before I cancel my account, which at this rate will probably be before the end of the free trial period.

Have I missed that yet? I started filling in the application form at the time you made your original posting, then saw your comment about referral, so did not complete the application, and they still sent me emails, including one "Only 7 Days Left To Get 25 Downloads on eMusic", which, I've just realised, was six days ago now. <rolls eyes>

I know what you mean about paying more for CD quality. I resent paying 99p for an mp3 when it's relatively possible to buy a CD for about that much per track.

Only for new CDs; once CDs get deleted from the catalogue, you can only get them secondhand, and their price then depends on their rarity, which is the problem I'm having to deal with on eBay atm.

Plus, these are really high bitrate mp3s, generally about 192k. I don't know whether that's still not good enough for you though. Me, I can't hear the loss the way I used to be able to with the old 50-80k mp3s that predominated when few people had broadband.

I don't know; I have no experience of MP3s so can't tell. The thing is, I didn't think my little speakers were too bad (with bass boosted) until I got my big speakers down here and wired them up so the big ones were in the lounge and the little ones in the kitchen. Then I really notice the difference! It's possible that the same would apply for MP3s—I might not notice the difference now, but would in the future.

OTOH it would only be for a maximum of <checks>16.74% of my singles collection...