Naked stripped away the studio chatter and Phil Spector post-production from The Beatles' swansong Let It Be, presenting a release closer to the group's original. Again, I say: How lucky are we to be living in the MP3/CD-R age, where we can all easily assemble our own ideal version of “Get Back”/”Let It Be” as we wish it. Download 4 Best Beatles Songs to Learn All about Beatles Members. Download the Beatles Let it Be in different resolution and format.

The last time I checked -- oh, about 20 seconds ago -- I have 1,981 songs stashed on iTunes in my MacBook Pro. Ah, the perks of being a former music critic; all the CDs I own fill five of those huge, tubs in my basement.

But can a music-mad journalist and studio musician ever have enough melody packed into his smartphone? And can you, for that matter, afford to be without affordable music you can download at a moment's notice? OK, so I can tell you all about the history of the MP3 file format.

(Once upon a time, a German scientist named Karlheinz Brandenburg helped develop it for motion pictures in the 1990s). But do I know much about the best MP3 bargains out there? Well, you might say on that score, I'm the pocketbook equivalent of tone deaf. That established, being a music junkie has its advantages -- mainly that I'm very, very motivated to learn all that I can about the ins and outs of music downloading on the cheap. Or, if you prefer, think of me as John Lennon singing, 'Gimme money! That's what I want!'

Download Sample Dae Files For Blender. Hey, I sure as hell would like to. Except you can't find The Beatles on any music download service. The legal ones, anyway.And with that musical intro, let's launch this latest installment of the Savings Experiment. By the way, I want to send a shout-out to some of my fave MP3 perks, right here on AOL:, and. While we're at it, let's not forgetthe,, and.

Awesomely tuneful! On the surface, Rhapsody offers what seems to be a sweet deal: Pay one flat monthly subscription fee, and listen to all the music you want on your laptop or mobile device, out of a catalog of some 9 million-plus songs. But when i did my digging, I found some flies in the Rhapsody ointment (more on that in a bit). Here's how it works: You get a free subscription for 14 days, and after that pay $9.99 a month (Rhapsody Premier) or $14.99 a month (Premier Plus).

The only difference is that the Plus version allows you access from 3 mobile devices or MP3 players instead of one. Otherwise, you get unlimited online listening in a library you set up on Rhapsody; 'subscription downloads' are also unlimited, but I had trouble identifying exactly what a 'subscription download' is. Otherwise, it appeared to me that most downloaded MP3s that you want to own still cost 99 cents (technically, 69 cents to $1.29). You can also stream music, too. My brief experience with Rhapsody made me feel like I'd just listened to one of those obnoxious Ting Tings songs about 100 times in a row. There's plenty not to like if you're a Mac user, as everything -- from the Rhapsody player itself to the visual interface for managing your music files -- is really made for PC users.

What's more, navigating the site for those 'unlimited subscription downloads' proved fruitless after an hour. From everything I could see, it still costs you money to download songs to own on Rhapsody. It's a great deal, admittedly, if you want to set up an online music library with gajillions of songs for one flat fee. But guess what? You don't own the songs.

Cancel your subscription, and that library becomes locked (though Rhapsody will offer you Premier Plus for just $9.99 if you try to go away). Car Mp5 Player Driver Download. So far as I could tell, this means you have to keep paying and paying monthly fees to hear your music. And like so many music fans, I just want to get my songs, move them around the way I like and be done with it; if I want 'free songs in a library,' I'll borrow CDs from the public library and burn them to iTunes. Speaking of which. I give the folks at Apple a lot of credit; in the days after the record industry shut down 'Napster 1.0' (remember when songs on Napster were free?), no one thought a paid download service for MP3s could work.