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Tim 45 - 19/7/04 at 07:27 PM

I TUNES
cheap legal music from the good people of apple.....only 79p a track.....thats cheaper than my coke music (unless you win from the bottles)!!
I think its a new scheme to try and stop illegal downloads
and NO VIRUSES

Chris_R - 19/7/04 at 07:44 PM

Yeah, good idea, but eMule is still 79p less than that.

Peteff - 19/7/04 at 07:50 PM

They are still ripping the U.K. off. It's .99euro to buy them on continent which is 65 pence. They never quite get it right do they.

Tim 45 - 19/7/04 at 07:59 PM

CHRIS_R
yeah but is emule legal?

no never get the price right

Chris_R - 19/7/04 at 08:09 PM

Technically yes, but most of the traffic's not.

gjn200 - 19/7/04 at 09:02 PM

Is this itunes etc mp3? If so what a con paying for crap quality.

Tim 45 - 19/7/04 at 09:06 PM

Not so gjn200 coz itunes is in fact lostless therefore you get CD quality music at a smaller price than a CD

Viper - 19/7/04 at 09:07 PM

Graham
wtf is your avatar all about?????????

tom_loughlin - 19/7/04 at 09:10 PM

i dont think there will ever be an end to illegal downloading of music.
personally, i think it is a good thing for a few reasons:
it gets unsigned and unheard of bands much needed publicity, anf gives them a chance to get their records heard
if i like a song by a particular band, i will download a few more tracks of theirs, and if i like them, ill go out and buy the album to support the band. otherwise, it saves £10 if you go buy an album cuz you like one song, and the rest of the album turns out to be crap.

millenniumtree - 19/7/04 at 10:06 PM

I agree. It will never stop.

But besides that, there are many ways to get music legally, I think 10 bucks a month will get you UNLIMITED downloads of entire albums from eMusic.com, There is also, of course, iTunes.

There are plenty of free alternatives as well, and as long as there are, trading music will never stop. Personally, I like to check out the free MP3 sites (the legally free MP3s) because you get lots of new music that no one really knows about yet. It's stuff that's not on the radio every 5 minutes.

A lot of the music that I download (illegally), is stuff you pretty much can't get in the states (JPop, Asian techno, etc.) Or by artists that died decades ago. Should I feel guilty for downloading music by the Inkspots?

I mainly download music because I'm poor. I can barely pay my phone and electricity bill every month, but I LOVE music. Should I go without, or get my fix any way I can? My decision is a pretty obvious one to me.
I have bought my fare share of CDs as well, but right now, buying food and paying the rent is more important than paying for CDs that I'll realistically only listen to 2 tracks on anyway.

That's the way I see things anyway, feel free to disagree.

Staple balls - 19/7/04 at 11:01 PM

i use www.allofmp3.com

totally legal, dead cheap

phelpsa - 20/7/04 at 09:51 AM

I use altavista mp3 search. Completely free and legal.

Adam

mackie - 20/7/04 at 11:54 AM

quote:
Originally posted by phelpsa
I use altavista mp3 search. Completely free and legal.

Adam


I very much doubt it's legal unless the site you are downloading the tracks from has the rights to let you do so and I doubt any do.

mackie - 20/7/04 at 12:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Tim 45
Not so gjn200 coz itunes is in fact lostless therefore you get CD quality music at a smaller price than a CD


Untrue, it uses AAC, but it is better than MP3. There are some lossless codecs available but the best they usually manage is about 50% compression.
MP3 can be excellent if encoded correctly (I use LAME with max quality settings at 192kbps vbr and it's very hard to tell the difference on my decent hifi (comparing original ripped wav to encoded mp3 played through an terratec aureon space soundcard).
I think MP3's days are numbered. I think from now on I shall use OGG for stuff I encode myself, being royalty free and open and all that nice stuff (oh, and better than MP3 )

Tim 45 - 20/7/04 at 03:36 PM

Mackie....i have been misinformed then, i was under the impression that apple have a new lossless downloading....
I quote
"and now iTunes can give you that quality with the new Apple Lossless encoder. You’ll get the full quality of uncompressed CD audio using about half the storage space. You can copy music in this format onto your iPod or iPod mini, to take perfect audio wherever you go."

This was taken from the section WEAPON OF CHOICE from HERE

mackie - 20/7/04 at 05:08 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Tim 45
Mackie....i have been misinformed then, i was under the impression that apple have a new lossless downloading....
I quote
"and now iTunes can give you that quality with the new Apple Lossless encoder. You’ll get the full quality of uncompressed CD audio using about half the storage space. You can copy music in this format onto your iPod or iPod mini, to take perfect audio wherever you go."

This was taken from the section WEAPON OF CHOICE from HERE


Ah, in that case I'm wrong, didn't know about that. Still it's a trade off isn't it, size v quality, complete losslessness is probably overkill but it's nice to have the option.

ceebmoj - 20/7/04 at 08:58 PM

personaly I like OGG free and great results playing them through my h-120 I get lots of musik and a quality that you can not tell the difrence from a cd or other source recording when out and about for a nice encoding tool check out audio graber also free.