By now, it's evident that the old model of music distribution is irredeemably broken. This has led to various attempts to offer download services, but most of them have been horribly half-hearted, with one or more fatal flaws (and that includes iTunes, whose use of DRM means that it just doesn't cut the mustard.)
Against that background, I can only wonder at
Passionato, a new online service for the world of classical music - it's gets just about everything
right: