Music gift card for MP3 Players?

[poohs_hunny]

I bought an SanDisk MP3 player for a Christmas gift, and I want to buy a music gift card to go along with it. Which companies are the best/cheapest for downloading songs, but also offer a gift card? Does iTunes work with all MP3 players or just iPods? Thanks for any help you can give me!

 

[shoegirl1020]

bbump

 

[CourtasanSatine]

Wal-Mart's site is 88 cents a song for downloads

 

[mom2minniemouse]

ITA w/the PP, but I'll add that Walmart also lets you download an entire "cd" for about $9.99.... so that would be less than 88 cents in most cases... Also, from what I've read on here, there are no annual fees on Walmart.com rather than how some other download sites are run. I got my nieces and DD MP3s this Christmas and each is also getting a WM gift card.

 

[poohs_hunny]

Thanks! Wal-Mart was what I was going to go with, since I've used them before for myself. I just wanted to be sure there wasn't something better out there.

 

[theblondebee]

I bought an SanDisk MP3 player for a Christmas gift, and I want to buy a music gift card to go along with it. Which companies are the best/cheapest for downloading songs, but also offer a gift card? Does iTunes work with all MP3 players or just iPods? Thanks for any help you can give me!

I won a SanDisk MP3 as a door prize this week and gave it to DS who's IPOD

broke. Well, at first he didn't like it because he only knew how to use ITunes

and it was not compatible. But it came with one month of FREE Rhapsody

music service. We couldn't believe it. We have always paid 99 cents per

song from ITunes but with Rhapsody, you get unlimited downloads for$14.99

per month, but we are still on our free trial and have already gotten about

300 songs. I have been putting songs on my laptop just to listen to or burn

CDs for the car and have found everything I was looking for!

 

[mom2dea0813]

Wait I asked this qustion a few days ago here .... I was told I-tunes work with MP3players ???? Is this NOT right ???

Sarah M

 

[kellia]

Itunes only works with Ipod mp3 players. I think there is software to convert from Itunes to regular mp3 format, but my dd doesn't want any songs I download, anyway! LOL! My dd has Sandisk, too, and we've had no problems using Walmart! And only .88!

DO NOT use Yahoo! We had so many problems with that, and even after we bought songs, we can no longer use them on her player or our computer.

Just remember, with the subscribtions, that have unlimited downloads, but you don't own the songs, so they will expire at the end of the month and you can't listen to them anymore if you cancel.

 

[tiki23]

Just remember, with the subscribtions, that have unlimited downloads, but you don't own the songs, so they will expire at the end of the month and you can't listen to them anymore if you cancel.

I don't understand how that works? If you cancel the subscriptions do the songs just go "poof" from your hard drive? What about the songs that are already loaded on your MP3 player and you cancel - how can they disappear?

I've been going through subscription sites for both music and cell phone downloads for half the day; I'm more confused then when I started!

TIA for your help.

 

[musicmama]

While Walmart downloads are occasionally problematic (might have to re-download) you do own the songs you pay 88cents for. The same is not true of Rhapsody, which a co-worker found out by accident after she cancelled her account.

Plus, the Walmart card is reloadable - DD has asked for this for Christmas.

 

[irishbosoxfan]

Itunes only works with Ipods. I have no clue about the subscription services but I know DH and I were looking at one site the other night where you have to pay a monthly subscription fee in addition to a per song fee.

I found out about this site from someone here!

http://www.allofmp3.com/

Downloads are about .17 cents each.

 

[kellia]

I don't understand how that works? If you cancel the subscriptions do the songs just go "poof" from your hard drive? What about the songs that are already loaded on your MP3 player and you cancel - how can they disappear?

I've been going through subscription sites for both music and cell phone downloads for half the day; I'm more confused then when I started!

TIA for your help.

There is a time stamp on the files, so it doesn't work when the month is up if you haven't renewed your subscribtion. If you do renew it, then the subscription service will update the stamp with another month. The songs don't 'disappear' as in delete themselves, but they are unplayable. There is illegal software you can get to copy them into regular mp3 song files, but that isn't something I want to do or teach my dd that is okay to do.

 

[JeffM]

I found out about this site from someone here!

http://www.allofmp3.com/

Downloads are about .17 cents each.

Love this site. If you go with the lower quality downloads (I listen to them through my headphones only) then they are around $0.08 a song. I really don't think Wal-Mart can compete with that.


Now, that being said, I'm still not sure it's 100% legal in the US. This is a Russian site. Not sure how the DMCA works with songs downloaded from overseas, but paid for in the US.

 

[Deesknee]

Wal-Mart's site is 88 cents a song for downloads

I bought my teens the Sandisk mp3 players last year the ones with the memory card option. The Walmart cards didn't work for us. I don't know if it ws because of our computer or the mp3 players. Just an FYI, you might want to check with the Sandisk company.

 

[Tamis3girls]

My daughter always uses Walmart.com, they are $0.88 and she has received gift cards and used them also, she just uses the numbers from the back of the gift cards, works great.

She downloads them onto our computer and then to her MP3 player.

 

[SueM in MN]

Itunes only works with Ipods. I have no clue about the subscription services but I know DH and I were looking at one site the other night where you have to pay a monthly subscription fee in addition to a per song fee.

I found out about this site from someone here!

http://www.allofmp3.com/

Downloads are about .17 cents each.

It's not something I know how to do, but I know friends of my oldest DD have made non-ipod MP3 players work with itunes. It involves re-programming the MP3 players, so it isn't something just anyone can do, but it can be done.