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After originally expecting 1 million daily song downloads, BuyMusic now says that it isn’t close to that of Apple’s figures. “We’re not achieving that at all,” says BuyMusic CEO Scott Blum. “I’ve spoken with my competitors, and we’re nowhere near [Apple’s] numbers.”

USA Today reports that early BuyMusic.com customers have found they can’t transfer purchased tracks to their portable digital music players. “The Mac-only iTunes has won raves for ease of use, both in burning CDs and transferring songs to Apple’s iPod players. But BuyMusic’s tracks have started out as unplayable, even on portables lent to the press in a promotional blitz,” notes the publication.

Interestingly, the recently launched online music store BuyMusic.com has now blocked access to the site for Macintosh users (it was available to everyone when it launched). Upon entering the site with any Mac Web browser, users are presented with the following message: “Thank you for visiting BuyMusic.com.

Buy.com today will launch BuyMusic, a new online music service aimed at the PC market with the cheapest per-song rates yet — but with “many of the same restrictions on copying that have stymied wider use of other music services,” reports AP.