Which sites do you lot consider is best for music downloads..pref free?
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Originally posted by Lightning
Which sites do you lot consider is best for music downloads..pref free?
alright mate id deffinaltley download a product called limewire (free version) i have tried many diffrent things eg kazaa imesh winmx and limewire is
by far the best
not that im downloading free music or anything
tom:
Corse not, perrish the thought
A lot (not all) of the software like Kazza etc has spyware/adware embedded in it...so be warned. Its also a sure way of getting viruses through
supposed music tracks... Make sure everything is up to date first 
I am glad to say all my mp3s are legal...all from my own cds...arent i good 
David
Easy news - 10 dollar a month - anything and everything.
shareaza
enough said - no spyware, free, but of course i dont endorse file sharing.
Tom
limewire - full of dataminers/spyware.
Most are... that's why they are free...
I'd use napster as it is now legal and not worth the risk.
Emule
If you are not after specific tracks but happy to dowload and sift through what you want. Then you can't go wrong with RipCast streaming audio
ripper. Costs a measly 12 pounds to get it. Free to try!
Then you tune in to the radio streams from Shoutcast. There are over 500 stations playing all types of music.
Ripcast will save the track complete with title in MP3 format. On broadband it can do up to 8 stations at approx. 1 track per station per 3 minutes.
That's 160 tracks an hour !!
My son tunes into a couple of US stations that play Hip Hop, RnB and he says the tracks are not available here for at least a month !
I tune into Virgin Rock and download an hour or two's worth, then sort through them.
Beware though, if you leave it on, like I did overnight, I just caught it with 2Mb left on my hard drive ! Took 5 CDs worth of tracks even after
weeding out the ones I didn't want.
Try here http://www.xoteck.com/ripcast
Try it, you won't be dissappointed. Check the lists of stations and their music content. i.e. Rock, RnB, Classic Rock, Drum n Bass, Classical
even !
Apart from RipCast software it's all FREE.
[Edited on 9/3/05 by Rob Lane]
Be warned, the likes of emule and almost all peer to peer filesharing programs are monitored these days, by the likes of companies like BayTSP, http://www.technewsworld.com/story/40247.html who are basically a security company, with a lot of very clever hackers/progrmmers who have the ability to use what is known as internet spiders to monitor what people are downloading, by ip address. It doesnt matter what the filename is even if its been renamed, they can still see. It also has been known for them to place dummy downloads as traps. If you receive a warning from on of these companies you could be facing $50000 fine minimum. My advice is if you want to download anything that maybe you shouldnt be, dont do it unless you know how to prevent you IP address from being detected. Try using "The Blocklist Manager" with "Protowall" and also a well configured firewall.
i use AllofMP3.com russian site that is exploiting a loophole in rusian copyright law and legaly offering music downloads by the MB. so if you choose
high compression you get loads of tracks at very low prices. also
Flak Monkey if you have taken your MP3's from CD's they are all illegal. in the UK you are not allowed to copy any protected data (ie music
or books or magasines) even for personal use. so it has always been illegal to tape your cd fro in the car or burn your cd to mp3 or photocopy a whole
book
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Originally posted by simonH
i use AllofMP3.com russian site that is exploiting a loophole in rusian copyright law and legaly offering music downloads by the MB. so if you choose high compression you get loads of tracks at very low prices. also
Flak Monkey if you have taken your MP3's from CD's they are all illegal. in the UK you are not allowed to copy any protected data (ie music or books or magasines) even for personal use. so it has always been illegal to tape your cd fro in the car or burn your cd to mp3 or photocopy a whole book
If you just want background music not specific get winamp and streamripper. In the file section under streaming media the internet radio section has hundreds of channels. I'm listening to Dragnet at the moment, nice.
[rant] Just a small hi-jack... I have a Sony Minidisc Player in the Car and Personal Portable jobbie. All highly LEGAL and above board. A few years
ago I had a CD stack in the boot of my car... the car got stolen I lost all of my "irreplacable" CD's. I would never condone illegal
music recording BUT I will never fall into this same situation again - those CD's as it turned out are priceless and cannot be replaced. Now I
copy 2 or 3 CD's onto a Minidisc and play them wherever I want. As far as I am concerned (lawful or not), if you own the original CD/Recording
you have paid for the right to copy it for your personal use. Any more than that and you are in breach of the law.
That's my 2p anyway.... [rant over]
Copyright laws are confusing...
If you tape something off the tv you can watch it once...legally.
I agree with Hellfire about copying your own music. I am away at uni, and there is no way i am carting 200 odd cds with me, and risking having them
nicked (thats about £3k worth of cds!) No one else listens to them at home anyway.
I also have a portable minidisc player, which i use when i am wandering backwards and forwards to and from uni.
I dont share my music with anyone else, i only listen to it myself, so I have paid for the recording, and i will use it to make copies so i can listen
to it!
The American laws came about due to Napster and people copying DVD's (IIRC WB was the one that complained). The way i understand it (american law
being even more confusing and undefined than ours) you can copy DVD's/CD's for your own use, provided you own the original. Same as the law
is over here.... could be wrong tho!
I have never downloaded music using any of the file sharing stuff...i know a lot of people that download a lot more than music, and i dont agree with
it (all my pc software is legal). But i see nothing wrong with making copies of your own stuff (either for backup or for use).
Rant over
David
[Edited on 9/3/05 by flak monkey]