Music price comparison website unveiled, iTunes whistles nervously

MoneySavingExpert.com has introduced a new weapon in its budget friendly arsenal, a music price comparison service.

TuneChecker.com lets you compare the cost of downloading MP3 singles and albums from various different sources.

All you do is type in the title of the track you want, wait a few seconds, and the results are returned in price order.

For example, Snow Patrol’s latest album comes out cheapest at £6.97 at Tesco, with Amazon and iTunes at £7.99 behind that. Play.com charges £8.99.

With Susan Boyle’s latest album, the price differences are even more pronounced, running from £3.97 at its cheapest (still £3.97 more than we’d pay for it, mind), to £7.99.

Predictably enough, iTunes doesn’t generally work out to be the cheapest; it certainly didn’t on the test searches we ran. Thus some folks are saying this site will be knocking chunks out of Apple’s profits.

We have to admit, it’s certainly very handy to be able to quickly find and compare prices on music, and a far more immediate experience than the usual more lengthy price comparison sites such as car insurance.

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