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Music Store Basics
Looking and Buying Music
About Soundbuzz Music Store

Now you can legally download and buy music online with Soundbuzz Digital Music Store! Select music from a huge catalogue and purchase your selection as a 'digital music download' to store and play on your computer. You can then transfer the download (or 'song file') to a compatible portable playing device and burn it to CD to play the music elsewhere. The number of times you can do this depends on the track's license restrictions. You will be advised of this in the License Agreement when you register for this service.

A 'digital music download' is a music file you can store and play on your computer (or portable player) and plays at CD quality sound.

Most of the time albums on this site are the same as the albums in store. Albums on this site contain tracks that have been cleared for digital distribution. Occasionally certain tracks off an album may not have been cleared and/or for other reasons they cannot be sold. When you are selecting your music, check what is listed on your screen and remember you can buy any track individually.

This store offers music files in protected Windows Media Audio (.WMA) files which play on Windows Media Player.

Windows Media Player Version 9 or above can be download from:
Windows Media Player
Shop With Confidence

We want you to feel completely comfortable when shopping with us, and we go to great lengths to protect your security and privacy. We use a technology called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which creates a secure shopping environment which authenticates your connection and encrypts sensitive information before it is sent over the Internet.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

When you enter a secured portion of our web site, an image of a closed lock or a solid key should appear in the bottom bar of your browser window. If you click on this image, a small popup window displaying site-security information will appear. This digital certificate, obtained from VeriSign, Inc. - a leading provider of Internet trust services - guarantees that your personal information is being transmitted in secure (encrypted) form to Soundbuzz's server, not to some unknown or unauthorized server. Ultimately, your personal information is protected by the password that you created when you registered for an account at our store. Please keep this password confidential. No representative of Soundbuzz will ever ask you for your password. The confidentiality of your password is yours to protect. If you are a registered customer and you want to change, modify, or delete any of your personal information - including your name, e-mail address, password and billing information -- you can do so at anytime by going to Update Profile after you have logged in.
System Requirements

To purchase and play downloads from this site, your computer will need:

    - Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP
    - Microsoft Windows Media Player Version 7.1 or above
    - Web browser - Internet Explorer 6+
    - Sound Blaster or compatible sound card
    - Speakers or headphones connected to your PC
Please note that this site currently does not support the Mac platform.
Account Set Up
Step 1 - Select
Step 2 - Select
Step 3 - Agree to the End User License Agreement
Step 4 - Provide information for all the fields in the profile information screen
Login to Buy Music
You do not need to have an account to browse or sample music. However if you'd like to purchase music, you'll need to first create an account. If you have an existing Creative store account, you may use the username and password to login.

Step 1 - Select
Step 2 - Provide information for the fields in the highlighted area

Update Profile
Keeping your information current and up to date is easy. Use this feature to change information that was previously provided.

Step 1 - Select
Step 2 - Provide information for the fields in the highlighted area
Step 3 - Select
Step 4 - Update the respective fields in profile information screen

Finding Music
Search Module
Find your music by artist, album or song title with this powerful tool. Simply enter the artist, album or song title where it says Search Music and cllick on Go.
Browse by Artist
You can preview artists by the selecting the first letter of the artist's name. Click on browse by artist and then select the letter of the alphabet that begins the artist's name.
Artist Image or Artist Name
Click on an artist's image or name in the featured list to view more of the artist music list.
Buying Music
Step 1 - Select the item you want to purchase and then select
Step 2 - Select to review items you have selected to purchase
Step 3 - Select to purchase items
Step 4 - Select your payment method by clicking on the image of your choice of payment method.
Step 5 - Enter the details of your credit card and click on the 'Make Payment' image. Please note that ONLY credit cards issued in Hong Kong can be used to purchase music from the music store.
Downloading Music
You can download music from AWAITING DOWNLOAD or PURCHASE HISTORY Menu.

AWAITING DOWNLOAD contains Albums/Songs that you have purchased but have yet downloaded to your computer.

PURCHASE HISTORY contains Albums/Songs that you have previously downloaded and may wish to re-download to the same PC.

Once an option have been selected, click to begin downloading

Copying Music to a Portable Device

Before transferring music to a portable digital audio player, insure that it support the WMA format and DRM (Digital Rights Management) secured music standards. Players must have security settings at the 1000 level. Make sure your portable player is connected to your PC and in a few simple steps, you can transfer your music to your player.

  1. Ensure Creative MP3 player is connected to the computer
  2. Download music within the Creative MediaSource
  3. Select Automatically transfer to device after Download

Porting music in PC Music Library using Windows Media Player 9

  1. Open Windows Media Player
  2. Click file/copy and select portable device
  3. Select the tracks from your Music Library that you wish to transfer by clicking the appropriate boxes next to the tracks
  4. Finally click the copy button and your files will transfer
Porting music in PC Music Library using Windows Media Player 10
  1. Open Windows Media Player 10
  2. Click the "Library" button and select the tracks that you wish to transfer to your portable WMA player.
  3. When you have selcted the tracks, right click on your selection and choose "add to Sync List"
  4. When you have added all tracks you want to transfer, then click the "Sync" button and under there choose to "Start Sync".
    You can transfer your downloads to a CD or a compatible portable device. The number of times you can do this is depended on the on that tracks restrictions. You will be advised of this in the License Agreement each time you purchase
Burning Music to CD

To create your audio CD make sure you have the correct CD-writing hardware and a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc. Tracks must be in your Media Library before you can copy them to a CD. Data CDs may only play on computers and in some portable CD or DVD players. In a few simple steps you will have you own audio CD of your downloads.

  Windows Media Player 9

  1. Open Windows Media Player
  2. Click 'Copy To Audio CD'
  3. Select or deselect the tracks from your Music Library that you wish to transfer to your audio CD. You can also create a mix of songs see below.
  4. Insert your blank recordable CD-R disc into your CD-writer and click the 'Copy To CD' button and you will have a new CD of your music.
Windows Media Player 10
  1. Open Windows Media Player 10
  2. Click the "Library" button and select the tracks that you wish to burn to your CD.
  3. When you have selcted the tracks, right click on your selection and choose "add to Burn List".
  4. When you have added all tracks you want to transfer, then click the "Sync" or "Burn" button and under there choose to "Start Burn"