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With the most impressive website interface of any site reviewed to date, SoundsBox has a very competitive price of $0.14 per track (cheaper than many other sites) and VISA/Mastercard as payment options. With a 10-20% discount for entire album purchases, you get a top-of-the-line website and excellent prices, along with a good catalog that has most of the music you'll be looking for.

SoundsBox has song previews for each track, and offers between 10-20% discounts on each album when they are purchased whole (versus the $0.14 per individual track price). You can easily find the latest charts as they have the top 100 for the USA, Germany, the UK, Canada, France, Italy, and Europe as a whole (as well as MTV charts, singles, and digital downloads).

SoundsBox differs from other sites in a few ways. The biggest difference is that you have to use the provided downloader to download music - there isn't an option to click-and-download the tracks you want like usual on other sites. However, the downloader is very simple and works quite well for what it does. It is a Java based application that works on any Windows computer as well as Mac and Linux computers. We tried out the newest version on Windows and the older version that is compatible with Mac and Linux computers, and both worked fine (so it is also the first website reviewed with a multi-platform native downloader available). In order to use the downloader you type in your order number (which can be found on your 'Collection' page when you are logged in) and tell it where to download the files to; it takes care of the rest. For those of you that want to have the downloading process shown in more detail, there is a page with instructional videos that walk you through the signup process, ordering, and downloading music. (If anyone has any comments or issues with the downloader, feel free to post in the forums. We'd be glad to help out.)

Another difference at SoundsBox is that most albums there have cover art (whereas some other sites don't have much or any at all). If this is important to you, then this might the right site for you.

SoundsBox offers additional bonuses for large deposits: if you deposit an amount over $50 into your account, you get an additional 20% worth of credit. This brings the price of your downloads down to 11.2 cents per track, which is an even better bargain than the $0.14 normal price. Currently they accept VISA and Mastercard as payment options.

Features Matrix

This table illustrates the features offered by SoundsBox. Please make sure to check the comparison matrix for a side-by-side comparison of all of the sites reviewed at SongBoom.com!