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Sprint has joined up with Real Networks to offer a music service to customers where they can buy full tracks of music DRM-free (so you can play it in multiple places), ringback tones, ringtones or get a bundle of all three. You can also use the service to discover new music either from an artist you already like or find artists that inspired your favorite musician. Of course you can preview songs before you purchase. Songs range in price from $0.69 to $1.29 per song with albums also available for sale. Essentially, Sprint's Music Plus store has many of the features you'd expect to find in an online music store.

We just took it a for a test spin. First of all downloading the app is pretty easy: You can either go to the Sprint Zone app and launch it from there or click this link and use the camera on your Sprint smartphone to take a picture of the barcode. We did this and within a minute we got a prompt to launch the store to download the app, which it did easily. Once the Sprint Music Plus app was installed, we started searching for music. There seems to be a decent selection with many popular artists represented. We did find a song or two that we liked and it was easy enough to press purchase and the song automatically started to download it. A note on downloading the music, be sure to set your Sprint phone to 4G or WiFi - this will greatly speed up download time. If you buy a complete song it will appear both in the phone's music library (along with album art) as well as listed in the Music Plus application as a purchase.

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