Puretracks Reviewer's Comments

 

Puretracks is just your average, run-of-the-mill music download site. They have more than one million songs offered in WMA and MP3 format. Artists include Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Lopez, Jimmy Eat World and more. Originally a Canadian site, Puretracks now offers music downloads to the United States. They have 11 genres of music, each genre with several sub-genres to help you narrow your search. You can also search for songs using the search box and filter by artist, album and track.

Most of Puretrack’s music download selections are in WMA format, which means they are only compatible with Playsforsure devices like Creative Zen and ScanDisk. However, they also offer a selection of MP3 songs that do not include a DRM restriction and work with almost all portable players including iPod and Zune. The song is clearly listed if offered in both formats. All formats are $.99, unlike similar sites, like Walmart and BuyMusic.com, MP3’s are not more expensive.

We were equally impressed with the level of customer service we experienced. Although Puretracks only includes a user manual and email address for support we were pleasantly surprised when our email was answered in less than 15 minutes.

You can navigate each album’s page using the tabs. The most helpful tabs include “Albums by this Artist” and “Influences” to help you find similar music. The most disappointing aspect of Puretracks is they only have about 1.3 million songs and many of the albums did not include the biographies. 

In the future we’d like to see Puretracks step it up a notch and offer more music and more complete artist and album information.