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Yeah that bites... I really hate having to install special software to access a service. (That's one of the reasons I steer people who ask me to recommend an ISP away from AOL and MSN--because of the extensive and hard-to-remove collections of software they insist on installing.) But most of the music services are doing it. Even emusic.com, which started out as just plain MP3 downloads via HTTP, ended up requiring a separate downloader app, allegedly to get better control over the amount of music being downloaded. (I say allegedly because I don't see why they couldn't have enforced their limits just as well with the plain downloads.)
Although I'm lured by the technological capabilities of the new services, they all have issues (like the itunes software, or the buymusic.com lack-of-privacy policy) that make me queasy, and more important, with the possible exception of emusic.com, they all have classical music selections that bite. So it's still off to CDs for me for a while longer.
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