Best MP3 Download site?

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a.k.a. Patrick

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Well I bough myself a little Christmas gift this year. (Like I dont all year long anyway)

Its a Sansa E130 MP3 Player/FM tuner thingy thing with headphones (plugs).

Its a long way from an ipod like my kids have, but I cant justify spending $400.00 on one when I can get something adequate for me for under $100.00. The question posed here, is for those of you who dont own iPods (You obviously use iTunes). What do you find to be the most economical and quality site to download music from (and easiest)? Im currently signed with Rhapsody, for $.89 per d/load, and 10 free for the first month. CD's are $7.99 also....
 
You might want to consider "Torrent" downloads, a litlle more complicated but virus-free, complete cd's with covers and all and for free...

Ok, It's not very 100% legel but what is in these days, I remember, here in Belgium, when the video-recorder came out 25 years ago, that wanted a law to prevent recording !

Now you can buy video players for 30 $...

If you want links, PM me...
 
Patrick...I am also getting an MP3 player for Xmas. I got the 1 gig Cowon Audio (black). It has an FM transmitter and voice recorder and can be used as a flash drive. My sister got the 512 meg version for my Mom for Xmas and she said the audio quality is amazing.



I have been using Limewire for downloads for like the last year with great results.
 
Keep it legal. People have been getting served and having to PAY! It's a LOT cheaper to pay for them up front than after they catch you.
 
Limewire is very similar to the original version of Napster (which no longer exists), they are both P2P sources. DON'T USE LIMEWIRE--there are sooo many viruses, even on what seems to be the most legit songs. I like chimp3.com, it takes awhile and it's kinka convoluted to download them, but it's worth it to get virus-free, organized albums of music at only 20 cents/song.



Chimp3.com might be illegal, but since it's not P2P they would be the ones who pay, not us.
 
You don't have to know. It's the same as some guy on the street selling you a VCR that he no longer needs for $10 bucks. It's up to YOU to be on the defense. You have to ask yourself why this site can sell a song for .50 or more cents less than the other reputable sites and be legal. Apple make a few cents on each song at .99 cents and they have the best selling site on the planet. You think the record guys are giving that tiny site a better deal?
 
Ok guys, not to dispute ethics, but I need help with establishing a site for my needs.

You have to be curius as to about 90% of the stuff offered at swap meets these days. What happens to those offering products on Ebay?? Would that be considered a 496 as well? Why am i debating this when i dont want to ??!!
 
Make sure to get a receipt. ;) I stay away from swap meets after seeing some "real" stuff next to some "fake" stuff. You just don't know what you're getting from those places and why you can get it for such a good price. Bottom line is you need to be able to prove where you got it from to keep you're freedom and having a receipt surely helps that.



Back to your question. Napster, really.
 
SpoiledMan said:
You don't have to know. It's the same as some guy on the street selling you a VCR that he no longer needs for $10 bucks. It's up to YOU to be on the defense. You have to ask yourself why this site can sell a song for .50 or more cents less than the other reputable sites and be legal. Apple make a few cents on each song at .99 cents and they have the best selling site on the planet. You think the record guys are giving that tiny site a better deal?
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That's a good point. But I don't believe the BS that Apple only makes a few cents on each song...that's just what they feed the public to justify [eventually] charging more.
 
Exactly !!!



Like how Home Depot came in with low prices, drove everyone outta business, now they are sometimes more expensive than most places.



Or when self serve gas was cheaper than full serve, now its all one price, the full serve price, but i have to pump my own friggen gas !
 
Check out free downloads with Binary Newsgroups. Most ISP's offer newsgroups with regular internet srvice. Some ISP's have good news services, some not. A good explanation of it all is Slyck's Guide to The Newsgroups The nice thing about newsgroups is there's new stuff posted every day by people all around the globe. And the quality of MP3's is generally good as newsgroup posters are usually computer savvy.



To see what's available check out alt.binaries.nl (Click on a group to see the lastest postings.)



Full list of MP3 groups available at Astraweb



Some of my favorites:

alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1970s

alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1980s

alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.classic-rock

alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.prog (progressive rock)



You'll need a binary news program to DL and decode the postings. There's many to choose from but I use Grabit. It's free, does a good job and is fairly simple to setup and use. Probably the best is Newsleecher. It's $30 but has alot of features and a smooth interface. If your ISP doesn't have a good news service (good retention and completeness of postings) you'll need to find a paid news service. The Slyck guide has a good listing of paid news services with user reviews.
 
Well, after reading the posts, I decided that Limewire and other P2P's have the legal right to operate the site but that users can still be held possibly liable for downloading and then burning the tracks, so I bailed on those type of "free and legal" sites and settled on MusicMatch for now. The full access download fee is 5 bucks a month and purchase for burning 99 cents each or 6.99-9.99 an album. Upgrading to the Jukebox Plus certainly gives better download and burner features. The burner will convert MP3 to .wav or .wav to MP3 easily. My daughter's CD deck in her car is MP3 capable and burning in this format lets you put about 10 albums on a 700MB CD. The downloads are very clear and crisp and there is an option to buy DFX for 19.99 (one time fee) for sound enhancement. You can try it out for free, which I did, and what a difference in sound! It is capable of enhancement to tracks that you can then burn to CD. I'm not all that savvy with these music sites and have been spending a chunk of time learning all this from scratch, but I was totally blown away by that DFX sound enhancement and I already have JBL speakers on my computer and a Bose system for music and home theater. It also has the option of ordering monthly allowances in ten dollar increments, so I gave my daughter a 10 dollar a month allowance along with this MP3 player for Christmas (MusicMatch allows up to 5 computers to use one account) and she promptly downloaded and album by a band called Death Cab for Cutie, of all things! I couldn't help but remark on the name of the band and she promptly pointed to my downloads of Led Zepplin, that sounded just as bizarre to her. The generation gap has now come full circle in my life!
 
Just wanted to add the Newsleecher program I mentioned above is actually $30 per year(!)....forget that. (unless you can afford it of course) The binary newsgroups are a good way to go. Fairly simple to setup, free and no one is tracking your DL's. A couple programs; Binary News Reaper (free) has alot of fans, but I found it complex to use. Xnews is another good free one many people like, a bit more difficult to setup than Grabit



To see what's available music-wise go to http://audiofind.com/ and search for a group/artist or click on one of the featured newsgroups.
 
Allofmp3.com : It's a Russian based site that allows you to choose the type of encoding and bitrate. The cost is based on Mb downloaded .02 (USD)/Mb (although I think they mean MB). A typical cd encoded in mp3 format at 192 Kbps is about $2.00.



You download a piece of software to automate the download process. The website can be accessed from anywhere to search music. They will save any selections you make until you turn the download manager on the next time.



I know several people who have used this system over the last couple of years and have been pleased with service and ease of the system.
 
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