Puretracks

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Puretracks is Canada's first online music store, which launched officially on October 14 2003. Owned by Moontaxi Inc., the service currently offers 700,000 songs mainly from Canadian music distributors and others, as well. The store is also customized to various retail outlet's needs, and re-branded, though with the same selection. One such re-brand is Future Shop's (Best Buy Inc) Bonfire service. Most whole albums cost between $7.99 and $9.99 CAD and single songs are $ .79 CAD and up (typically around 99 cents each). It is available to Canadians and Americans (as of October 13, 2004) The music in the store is sold at 192 kbit/s WMA.

Puretracks offers a service similar to Apple's iTunes Music Store.

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