Add the file(s) you wish to purchase to your Downloads shopping cart with the 'Buy' button on the product page. When you're ready to pay, click either the 'Go to payments' button in the Downloads cart, or the 'View My Downloads Order' link in the right hand menu... Eventually you will be transferred to PayPal, where you can pay using any of the credit cards they accept, or with a PayPal account.
Customers using an EEA billing address will see VAT added to their total downloads order at the current UK rate. Customers paying from outside the EEA are not taxed.
For accounting purposes, Downloads use a different shopping cart to the Mail Order. You can shop in both at the same time - the carts are separate - just remember that you will need to pay for each separately as well.
Paid download links are valid for 48 hours. After payment is accepted the links will be presented on a web page for immediate download, as well as sent to you via e-mail (be sure you give a valid address). Please allow sufficient time for the message to travel the globe and find you, and if necessary check your 'spam' or 'junk' mail box. E-mail is never 100 per cent reliable... If needs be, We'll chisel one out by hand.
All files arrive as ZIP archives, and must be extracted using utilities such as Stuffit for Mac OS X or 7-zip for Windows - both of which can be had for free.
Once the files are decompressed, you can use any capable software you like to open them. For audio files we recommend iTunes for Mac OS X, and iTunes, Winamp or Windows Media Player for Windows.
(Don't be surprised if the files you download are named 'linklokme.php' or the like. Simply rename them with the appropriate file name extension - typically .zip for archives, .mp3 or .flac for audio, .jpg or .pdf for images - and they will open properly. We're working on it...)
We sell most new music files in both of two very different formats: MP3 and FLAC.
MP3: LAME encoding at 190 Kbps VBR - nearly 'CD quality', yet small enough to fit on a modest MP3 player.
FLAC: a popular 'lossless' alternative, FLAC does not remove information from the audio stream, as do 'lossy' compression formats such as MP3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis. If you want the highest available quality, choose FLAC - however,
check that your portable music player supports FLAC format, or plan on converting copies of the files to a compatible format (MP3) yourself. In addition,
FLAC files must be converted to AIFF before burning to CD for play on a Hi-Fi stereo system.
DRM is one way some bands and online retailers attempt to protect their downloads from being illegally re-distributed. We do not apply any DRM or copy protection of any sort to our downloads, as it can cause problems playing the files on different computers or portable devices. However, just because our downloads are not 'protected' does not mean they should be shared. The files you purchase are yours, so it is your responsibility to see that they - and the artists who create them - are respected. What goes around, comes around.
