JetsMania Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 What are some good sites to download music to stock my ipod? I dont want to pay 99 cents a song. Are there any sites that let you pay a flat monthly fee and let you download what you want? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passion Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 Legally or illegally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsMania Posted May 23, 2007 Author Share Posted May 23, 2007 Legally or illegally? both would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonDigital Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 IRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucklin12 Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 http://www.gomusic.ru (which used to be mp3search.ru) It's perfectly legal, and you can dowload most music you are looking for, for anywhere between $.13 to $.19 a song. Since the site is based in Russia, you can get a lot of new releases about 2-3 weeks early, because of the earlier release dates over there. I got the new Wilco CD in March and it just released about a week ago here in the US, and it only cost me about $2.00. This is seriously the best secret out there for downloading music legally.  (It's legal because of loose copyright laws that apply in Russia and not the US. You basically are importing a product into the states, just the same as if you would have bought a DVD player in Russia and brought it back with you to the US) The downfalls are that you have to download each song one by one, rather than by album as with iTunes, and you might have to clear the first purchase with your bank first, since it is a Russian purchase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsMania Posted May 23, 2007 Author Share Posted May 23, 2007 that RU site is awesome. 12-19 cents for a song is much better than 99 cents like itunes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucklin12 Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 Yeah, there is some underground stuff that you won't find, but you can request it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish4Life Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 http://www.maxalbums.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarlinsMY Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 Let's keep this legal... I use Rhapsody, which lets you download songs for free with a monthly fee. You do have to pay $0.99 if you want to burn the tracks to a CD, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passion Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 Wait for Amazon's download service. Non-DRM tracks and they will be MP3. I don't know how anyone can download DRM music. emusic is a good site. A monthly fee for like up to 90 downloads a month and all of the tracks are high quality VBR with no DRM. You won't find 'popular' music on there though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDon Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 I use ITunes because .99 is ridiculously cheap in the year 2007. The only drawback is ITunes needs to get their sh*t together and expand their catalogue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passion Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 iTunes needs to offer DRM free music and not 128 kbps AAC encoded songs. I can't believe in 2007 people would settle for that garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FishFanInPA Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 I've had no problems with Morpheus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbob1313 Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 iTunes needs to offer DRM free music and not 128 kbps AAC encoded songs. I can't believe in 2007 people would settle for that garbage. I think they are stopping the DRM thing (at least for the Beatles Catalog at first) and I think from now on they are offering 192 kbps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louiecastillo1 Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 I use limewire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDon Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 iTunes needs to offer DRM free music and not 128 kbps AAC encoded songs. I can't believe in 2007 people would settle for that garbage.   Im pretty ignorant when it comes to compressed files. Could you go into more detail about this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rorod Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 iTunes needs to offer DRM free music and not 128 kbps AAC encoded songs. I can't believe in 2007 people would settle for that garbage.   Im pretty ignorant when it comes to compressed files. Could you go into more detail about this? i second that. i have no clue what youre saying Fox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDon Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Still need a more in depth answer on this Fox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzie Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 if the quality sounds fine to me, i couldn't care less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDon Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 if the quality sounds fine to me, i couldn't care less.    Thats pretty much my thoughts on this. I have a pretty particular ear when it comes to music and I dont have any issues with ITunes sound quality only their lack of selection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauer7 Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 limewire, but it comes with the virus risk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passion Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Sorry didn't see this until now. I'm not trying to be a snob but I personally like V0 encoded MP3s or lossless compression music files.  V0 being a CD that uses the lame codec to rip the data off the CD and usually has an audo bitrate of ~215+. The files you download on iTunes are 128 kbps AAC roughly 160 kbps if they were in MP3. The lower the quality of a music file the more you compromise cutting out the distinct sounds of a song.  I think anything less than 192 is a waste from an audio quality standpoint.  I can hear notable differences from an iTunes file to a CD I rip using the V0 standard. Anyone who cares about their music should want the best quality they can get for a reasonable price/file size. The masses don't care, so iTunes has no reason to change the far and away best digital downloading service (from a money making standpoint). I'm also against any files that have DRM (Digital Rights Management) endoded in to them. These files regulate what you can or can not do with music you paid for. You can't play iTunes bought tracks on non-iPod players and there are limits on how many computers can use the song. I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs is shying away from DRM but it still exists. Most of this is personal preference but its just 'sad' to me that the digital music standard is a file with sound quality as poor as 128 AAC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDon Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Sorry didn't see this until now. I'm not trying to be a snob but I personally like V0 encoded MP3s or lossless compression music files.  V0 being a CD that uses the lame codec to rip the data off the CD and usually has an audo bitrate of ~215+. The files you download on iTunes are 128 kbps AAC roughly 160 kbps if they were in MP3. The lower the quality of a music file the more you compromise cutting out the distinct sounds of a song.  I think anything less than 192 is a waste from an audio quality standpoint.  I can hear notable differences from an iTunes file to a CD I rip using the V0 standard. Anyone who cares about their music should want the best quality they can get for a reasonable price/file size. The masses don't care, so iTunes has no reason to change the far and away best digital downloading service (from a money making standpoint). I'm also against any files that have DRM (Digital Rights Management) endoded in to them. These files regulate what you can or can not do with music you paid for. You can't play iTunes bought tracks on non-iPod players and there are limits on how many computers can use the song. I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs is shying away from DRM but it still exists. Most of this is personal preference but its just 'sad' to me that the digital music standard is a file with sound quality as poor as 128 AAC.     Fair enough and a very good explanation.   I noticed a vast sound quality difference when I initially stopped buying CD's and began purchasing music from ITunes. The decrease in sound quality (mostly low end) was very evident on my ITunes purchases.  But I seem to have gotten used to it (which doesnt make it right).    Maybe I'll summons the ambition to seek out more high quality MP3's in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DolphinStadiumCrazie Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 albumbase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaq-Man Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 limewire, but it comes with the virus risk no it doesn't. unless you're mentally retarded and go around downloading and running programs instead of songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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