The Nokia X6 mobile phone I was given last year came with some complimentary credit to use at the Nokia Ovi Music store. After initially being impressed by the range of music available for purchase I have come to the conclusion that Nokia's expertise in designing phone hardware does not extend to building usable music websites.
I firstly installed the large and clunky Ovi Music application for Windows, and through that purchased one, forty track album. That part was fine, and I was happy to see that I was being given DRM-free MP3 files. However, the downloading of my purchased tracks was where the problems began. The application's estimate of the time to download the whole album was over five hours, and it wasn't kidding. It was as if Nokia was sending the music via a dialup modem. After two hours about 100 megabytes of data had been sent through my 10 megabit/second connection, with 200 megabytes remaining. As a bonus feature, if my PC went to sleep during the download then the track it was downloading at the time could not be resumed, ever. Asking Ovi Music to retry results, to this day, in a cryptic error message. Finally, I tried to stop the downloads as I wanted to go to bed, but I was informed that if I stopped then I'd have to contact Nokia support or purchase the tracks again, neither of which was an enticing prospect.
After some Googling I discovered that purchased music can be downloaded via the Ovi web site rather than through the Ovi Music application. The first time I tried this the download speeds were as poor as the app. However, the next time I tried, some hours later, the downloads happened in a flash. Even when the web downloads were fast the app downloads were grass-growingly slow.
Overall, I'm happy that I have the music that I want. It was just a more difficult process than expected.
P.S. Burning this music to CD I wanted to print jewel case inserts, as I did years ago with, I think, Adaptec Easy CD Creator. The only free product I could find to create the inserts, with album art and track listings, was Apple iTunes. I installed it in a VirtualBox virtual machine so as not to sully my main OS, and it worked perfectly well.