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www.freeamp.org. From EMusic Help:
"The EMusic Player (Windows/UNIX). The EMusic Player is a full-featured MP3 player designed by EMusic.com to foster the growth of digital music. It is based on the FreeAmp Player, which is an open-source MP3 player, also sponsored by EMusic.
The EMusic Player currently features the Xing MPEG Decoder, giving it the ability to handle Layer 1, 2, and 3 MPEG audio streams. Its modular application architecture allows for future extensions to its supported audio formats and output devices, and even allows for entirely new user interface plugins. The EMusic Player also supports one-click album downloads at EMusic. Once you've purchased an album at EMusic, there will be an icon on your download page that will allow you to download all the tracks from that album at one time."
EMusic files are natively mp3 format/128 kbps. To facilitate album downloads (vs. single files), you need either FreeAmp or Real. If you use Real, the little devil apparently converts the files to Realmedia format. FreeAmp doesn't screw around with it. Haven't had any problems playing or burning mp3 files downloaded with FreeAmp.
Like to see MJ added for album downloads.
HTH