music / mp3 download / file sharing site ?

[daddysbike]

I have a bunch of songs downloaded from kaza ("free" "file sharing" "illegal"). My kaza won't work anymore and I'm willing to spend $1/song. It seems hard to find out the actual cost on napster etc and seems like you have to pay a monthly fee and a per song charge? Also seems extra to transfer to mp3 player and/or burn onto cd's, limited play etc. If I can't download a song for ~$1/song and play it on my mp3 player or burn to cd and listen to as many times as I want then I'll find another "illegal" "file sharing " site. Any tips/info/prices on good sites?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[evil_henchman]

Be aware that this thread belongs in completely off topic discussions and it will probably get moved. That being said, I use limewire. Works great and never had a problem. Limewire I also use a special firewall that's designed to guard against the usual stuff plus known recording industry bots and government, ect. It's called PeerGuardian2 P2P. Only run P2P when you're downloading cuz it blocks everything. One thing you should know about limewire. When you close the program it doesn't really close. It's still running and the icon is on your bottom tool bar. You have to right click that icon and exit to actually shut it down. The less time the whole world has access to your stuff the better even with firewalls....

 

[jwilly]

Also use limewire, what I did was loaded an old desktop with xp and just use it for downloading from limewire. When I'm done I shut it down so you don't have to worry about hackers and such....

Now when I download a song, I just do it to see if I ilke it. Once I have confirmed that it's a good song I delete it and go directly to the store and buy the album. I would never consider listening to stolen property?

 

[daddysbike]

Be aware that this thread belongs in completely off topic discussions and it will probably get moved. That being said, I use limewire. Works great and never had a problem. Limewire I also use a special firewall that's designed to guard against the usual stuff plus known recording industry bots and government, ect. It's called PeerGuardian2 P2P. Only run P2P when you're downloading cuz it blocks everything. One thing you should know about limewire. When you close the program it doesn't really close. It's still running and the icon is on your bottom tool bar. You have to right click that icon and exit to actually shut it down. The less time the whole world has access to your stuff the better even with firewalls....

Thanks!!

Limewire I knew I was forgetting a good one. Thanks also for the P2P link, I'll get that too.

Keep suggestions coming

Steve

 

[quicksilver]

Similar to Limewire.

Another place to look if limewire does not have a particular song:

Ares.com

I've had their software on my computer for about 6 months with no issues.

There are a couple versions of software floating around,

One wants money the other is free.

The free one works fine.

 

[evil_henchman]

Thanks!!Limewire I knew I was forgetting a good one. Thanks also for the P2P link, I'll get that too.

Keep suggestions coming

Steve

Regarding P2P. When you download it you'll have the chance to do some configuration. First, it will ask if you want to start P2P when the computer starts. You don't want that. Only run it when you're downloading because of my next suggestion: you want to block HTTP. They typically have nothing to do with peer files anyway and if you're blocking HTTP you'll never get anywhere on the internet.

 

[Charlie Hoss]

Steve,

I'm very new to MP3s and all this music download stuff, but a friend turned me on to this site...says its legal and after a bit of playing around there, seems easy to use. An excellent selection of music, super low prices, etc. I think you join for about $10 and add money to your acct to purchase. Check it out:

clicky here

 

[John_Dumke]

Being Somewhat of a music Junkie with over 48 speakers in my house and 27,000 songs digitally recorded in wav format on 2 Terabytes of storage. I have a few suggestions.

1) The new Windows Media Player 11 does a great job of ripping cd's to your computer. Comes with Vista or can be downloaded if you have XP

2) Borrow cd's from your friends and rip them to your computer.

3) Buffalo Terastation's (www.newegg.com) make a great storage solution. They are arrays of 4 hard drives with up to 2 Terabytes, in a Raid 5 (self backing up) configuration. You don't want to loose the data after all the effort.

4) www.Pandora.com is a Great website for finding more music that you like.

5) www.LaLa.com trade CD's with other people throughout the US for only 1.75 (which includes shipping)

6) Now to play your digital music collection through your home stereo, use a Squeezebox made by Slimdevices recently bought out by Logitech.

7) And of course, the defacto standard for portable playback is the Ipod. It usually wins for ease of use and sound quality.

 

[kulwen]

legalsounds.com

This is the only site I use. .09 cents a song. or about $1 per album .They do not have a lot of the old music, but I find most of what I am after here. If I can't find it here I go into my part time job at a local radio station and pull what I want.

 

[twowheelnut]

FREEZE! THIS IS THE FBI!

:****:

I used to use Limewire, now I pay through I tunes if I can't scarf up a CD to rip. But for 9 cents, I'm gonna check out that legalsounds.com... thanks!

 

[kulwen]

legasounds.com does not have any DRM and it is a higher quality then itunes and most of the other sites.

 

[jwilly]

legalsounds.com is great. I downloaded 15 albums last night with no problems. Perfect timing because the site I was using disappeared a few weeks ago. Personally I hate iTunes, My children got about $100 worth of iTunes gift cards for Christmas and we had tons of issues.

I'm an MP3 junkie!! :dribble: I now have 140GB of music on my home server.

-jwilly

 

[trinibob]

ok one question with legalsounds.com and all the other pay for sites like musicmach thats the one that i used untle i realised i could not use the music for movie edeting copy protected listen and copy 7 times then its done cant cut the tracks for edeting so it blows pretty much :glare:

 

[slapnpop]

ok one question with legalsounds.com and all the other pay for sites like musicmach thats the one that i used untle i realised i could not use the music for movie edeting copy protected listen and copy 7 times then its done cant cut the tracks for edeting so it blows pretty much :glare:

:blink:

Was that English?

 

[FJRocket]

ok one question with legalsounds.com and all the other pay for sites like musicmach thats the one that i used untle i realised i could not use the music for movie edeting copy protected listen and copy 7 times then its done cant cut the tracks for edeting so it blows pretty much :glare:

Ok, Trini, step away from the Johnny Black! :lol:

So is there any better deal than Legalsound.com?

I hope the downloads from Legalsound.com are faster than their page loads. Sheesh, it seems to take forever for those pages to load, even on DSL. Like being back to dial up.... :bad:

 

[kulwen]

Yes, there web site can be slow.

I downloaded their downloader program and do not deal with the website often. The downloads are pretty quick most of the time. Even when the site is slow it seems the downloads go pretty quick. If you have high speed go into the settings and change the number of files to doenload at a single time form 2 to 3.

There is no DRM on the files, so there is not a 3 or 7 counter for the number of burns you can make.

I have not found any site better then legalsound. No DRM to mess with and $25 equals 250 soungs.

 

[jwilly]

The website is slow but the downloads are very fast. I was downloading songs in 3-5 seconds each. I'm going to check out thier downloader program and see how it works.

-jwilly

 

[Bananas!]

Go to eMule.com. Put the name of the artist that you are looking to download in the search box. Open the drop box that says "any". Click on archive, this will give you complete albums. "Discography" will give you every album that that artist ever made. The cool thing is that all the albums will open up into individual tracks. eMule is the bomb!

Bananas!

 

[jwilly]

Go to eMule.com. Put the name of the artist that you are looking to download in the search box. Open the drop box that says "any". Click on archive, this will give you complete albums. "Discography" will give you every album that that artist ever made. The cool thing is that all the albums will open up into individual tracks. eMule is the bomb!
Bananas!

I think you mean www.emule.org ???