There's a new Russian file service called AllOFMP3.com apparently owned by a company called MediaServices.

As 11:30 am Pacific it was offering 1 mb of traffic for between one and two cents (Yep. .01 or .02 $US) a pop, depending on download type, with Diana Krall's Girl In The Other Room, Prince's Musicology and the Kill Bill, Vol 2 Soundtrack as the top three possibilities.

The catalogue contains thousands "of the best and rare musical albums of the last and current centuries," promises the site, with "hundreds soundtracks to the most known films and computer games, a plenty of audiobooks, set of video clips. Every day on our site appear about 10 new albums of popular musicians and groups of various genres."

And it's all legal according to, "license # LS-3?-03-79 of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society," say AllOFMP3.com's owners.

"Under the license terms, MediaServices pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of the Russian Federation 'On Copyright and Related Rights'. All the materials are available solely for personal use and must not be used for further distribution, resale or broadcasting."

That's them

But then there's you and as far as that goes, "Users are held liable for the use and distribution of the MediaServices site information materials according to local legislation."

hmmmmm

Anyway, back to the service, you can preview of tracks/albums as downloadable files and/or online streaming audio and AllOFMP3.com also has 'Online Encoding' which allows users to get their music fixes whatever formats - MPEG-1 Layer 3 (mp3), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis (OGG), MusePack (MPC) MPEG-4 (AAC) - they like.

And, promises AllOFMP3.com, users can also regulate quality through Online Encoding's advanced sub-service called 'Online Encoding EXclusive' (OEEX) which alets people to encode lossless files in Monkey's Audio, WMA 9 Lossless, FLAC and OptimFrog.

"Online Encoding Exclusive enables you also to encode music in formats MP3, WMA, OGG, etc, using the data of an original source - a compact disc," it states

So why not offer pre-ripped mp3s a 192 kbps, say?

"Because we think that it is better to wait several minutes and get audio files of the quality you prefer, than to download files (already prepared by someone) with standard quality."

And the Big Five recording labels say there's no way to make downloading work for anyone - except them?