One of the most interesting things about last nights show was the brief announcement that you can download your favorite Idol’s performance the next day.

All songs are $.99 which isn’t a bad price, but there is no real music store behind it. It seems to be an americanidol.com only thing which leaves me a little skeptical.

Will they work on my iPod? What’s the system requirements? After a little digging I found out that the songs are not Mac friendly and not iPod friendly even though it says at the top of the store that they are. So all my excitement over the downloads are gone and I’m left a bit confused. I guess I’ll have to find other alternative ways of listing to my favorite Blake Lewis songs.

I think for the store to be really successfully, they should have partnered up with iTunes and give everyone a chance to participate. What better way to reach Mac & PC customers, millions of registered users and all iPod owners?? Come on Idol, get with it.

So if you are on Windows and want to download last nights songs, head over to downloads.americanidol.com and shop away.