Downloading Music from walmart.com

L

ll

Win XP Home + SP2
When I click "Buy" on a walmart.com song, I get a pop-up that says:

"We need to update your computer. ... Here's what we need to
install on your computer: Download Manager. ... Our download
manager makes getting our song files easy -- once you buy a song
it is automatically downloaded, ready to play, and easy to find
in your Windows Media Player media library."

This is _mandatory_ before you can buy and download a song.
The parts about doing this makes it "easy to download",
"ready to play", and "easy to find" sound like BS.
It can't be _technically necessary_ to install that
in order to do those things.

With the recent Sony root kit debacle, I'm reluctant to do this.
But I can't buy a song unless I do.
Any advice?
 
G

Galen

In ll <[email protected]> had this to say:

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Win XP Home + SP2
When I click "Buy" on a walmart.com song, I get a pop-up that says:

"We need to update your computer. ... Here's what we need to
install on your computer: Download Manager. ... Our download
manager makes getting our song files easy -- once you buy a song
it is automatically downloaded, ready to play, and easy to find
in your Windows Media Player media library."

This is _mandatory_ before you can buy and download a song.
The parts about doing this makes it "easy to download",
"ready to play", and "easy to find" sound like BS.
It can't be _technically necessary_ to install that
in order to do those things.

With the recent Sony root kit debacle, I'm reluctant to do this.
But I can't buy a song unless I do.
Any advice?
Click to expand...

Don't use Wal-Mart's site? Consider an alternative, there's a great number
of them. One such example is: http://music.msn.com/ which I've personally
used and enjoyed. I did recently trial one other one but I'm reluctant to
recommend them because even though I canceled they still insisted on trying
to bill my for two months after the trial had ended. In this case I'm
personally sticking with well known sites and I tend to avoid any site that
forces me to download anything. While I doubt Wal-Mart is installing
anything as evil as a rootkit - I'd certainly not put it past any large
business who's main profits come actually from information to do more than
just install a simple download manager. I commend your choice to ask and to
be skeptical. I'd highly recommend avoiding any site that forces you to
download something just to download music. It just seems, well, a bit much
if you ask me. Even if they don't install anything bad the very idea that
they feel that they can force you/me/us to install software for the simple
act of downloading a paid for bit of ones and zeros is just a bit
presumptuous on their part.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes
 
M

musicfanatic

Irrespective of any music download service, either it is msn music,
yahoo music, apple itunes. you need to install their client component
in your pc to manage downloads. So I would say installing wal-mart
music install does not harm your PC. i have used it without any
problem.
 

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