I was wondering if anyone knows of a *good* site to download mp3's from. I hope to find files that don't have any baggage or restrictions on them. You know, X many times burned on CD, or some other stupid thing. Anyone got a place?

Thanks.

If you want good, you're going to have pay.

Granted, I thought that was implied. I want legit files. so yes, I will to pay.

quote Originally posted by achawkins: Granted, I thought that was implied. I want legit files. so yes, I will to pay.

I didn't catch that! Sorry bro.

Several of my buddies, believe it or not, use Napster. Yeah! They're still around and legit.

http://www.napster.com/choose/index.html

Much cheaper than Itunes.

try the newsgroups. Fastest way that I can find to get.

Legit try napster like posted above


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I was reading napsters rules and they only allow you to copy their mp3's to 3 computers, hell I have more than that in my downstairs. Those are the kind of bugs I don't care for. I was hoping to find clean mp3's. I don't know if there are even any out there like that.

I think they're still considered in the gray area of legalities, but allofmp3.com is NICE.

quote Originally posted by cjgable: I think they're still considered in the gray area of legalities, but allofmp3.com is NICE.

Thats the Russian site isnt it? They got shut down by the KGB.

Torrents give me legit files all the time. Whether or not you consider it legal is up to interpretation of the law....

quote Originally posted by achawkins: I was reading napsters rules and they only allow you to copy their mp3's to 3 computers, hell I have more than that in my downstairs. Those are the kind of bugs I don't care for. I was hoping to find clean mp3's. I don't know if there are even any out there like that.

Burn the files to a CD then rip them off in mp3 format. Copy them all you want after that.

I haven't figured the torrent thing out yet.

quote Originally posted by achawkins: I haven't figured the torrent thing out yet.

Basically the .torrent file is a download script that tells your torrent downloader what files to download from what server. You open the torrent file with your torrent downloader; be it BitComet or Azureus (I prefer each respectively for Windows and Linux) or some other downloader.

Once you download your first full album with one download, you realize what you have been missing.

quote Originally posted by AP2k: Thats the Russian site isnt it? They got shut down by the KGB. Torrents give me legit files all the time. Whether or not you consider it legal is up to interpretation of the law....

I just d'l from there the other day. All the other sites have a lot to learn, as far as services to offer, from Allofmp3.

quote Originally posted by achawkins: I was reading napsters rules and they only allow you to copy their mp3's to 3 computers, hell I have more than that in my downstairs. Those are the kind of bugs I don't care for. I was hoping to find clean mp3's. I don't know if there are even any out there like that.

When you buy music from Napster, it is kept on their server for you to download. It's true that you can only download to three computers from their server. But there's no limit to the number of cd's you can burn from your computer, or put the music on a flash drive, or an iPod.

I've been using them for a couple of weeks, you can download the music and listen to it as much as you like for free (and listen to the whole song or album) if you try to load it into a device or try to burn a CD, you have to pay for the music-- 99 cents for a single song or 9.95 for many of the albums in their library. I am generally very pleased with their service--there are some holes in their collection, but lots of the old stuff that is never heard is available--and I suspect all of the new stuff that I would never listen to.

They don't have much Beatles, tho. I think Apple keeps a pretty tight rein on their property.

quote Originally posted by achawkins: I was wondering if anyone knows of a *good* site to download mp3's from. I hope to find files that don't have any baggage or restrictions on them. You know, X many times burned on CD, or some other stupid thing. Anyone got a place? Thanks.

Its all free as far as im concerned.

Even if allofmp3.com was going to be shut down by the Russian authorities, it wouldn't happen until June 1, 2007. With that said, you might want to read these two articles about the situation

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061129-8315.html
and the follow-up story
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061130-8330.html

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Thanks for the reads. I've been following it a bit, but I haven't been updated lately. I had actually expected them to be shut down last September. It'll be sad to see em go/or raise the prices. Their format is the best!

Lets say you allegedly used a P2P site like KaZzA, which now allegedly sucks, where would you hypothetically go now?

quote Originally posted by Falcon Fiero: Lets say you allegedly used a P2P site like KaZzA, which now allegedly sucks, where would you hypothetically go now?

try this http://www.shareaza.com its all i use.

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eMule for single songs - Kazaa is dirt dead, Shareaza is just another eDonkey2000 client (as eMule), WinMX is dead, LIMEWIRE IS DEAD (get the HELL over it, good god, it died 6+ years ago!!!)... the list of crappy "networks" goes on...
But on eMule there are several "poser" servers handing out bad files. Keep PeerGuardian on hand to avoid connecting to bad servers and getting bad files. Otherwise, there's hundreds of copies of every song known to man, and almost always decent quality.

But if you want albums, of truly decent quality... nothing better than torrents. AVOID the "BitTorrent" client like the plague - the "official" one that is. I despise BitComet (cheating piece of crap with a horrible interface), Azureus is a resource whore, ABC and the others... well, utter crap. µTorrent is the only decent client, but the coder just sold out to the creator of the original "BitTorrent", who has nasty ideas in mind for it. Grab it up while it's still clean - http://utorrent.com. As for sites to grab the stuff, I'll drop two words and leave it at that. Pirate Bay. Find that and you'll find God.

And if you like it, BUY IT. BMG is a decent service. Or just go by Best Buy or something. DO NOT support "online downloads" like iTunes, Napster, or the like. Don't let the industry think we're letting them get away with DRM-polluted BS that we can't use on the MP3 player of our choice. Maybe if they just sold good quality MP3 files, I'd be more willing to buy MP3s... but in the meantime, MP3s can't be bought. Napster uses DRM as well. *sigh*

My $0.02

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take ur drm files make a CD IMAGE mount it to a fake drive with alcohol 120% and then rip it and delite the cd image there u got freedom mp3s


and azereus uis my torrent prog of choice doesnt use alot of resources for me
it makes downloding multiple files easier

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quote Originally posted by Falcon4: eMule for single songs - Kazaa is dirt dead, Shareaza is just another eDonkey2000 client (as eMule), WinMX is dead, LIMEWIRE IS DEAD (get the HELL over it, good god, it died 6+ years ago!!!)... the list of crappy "networks" goes on... But on eMule there are several "poser" servers handing out bad files. Keep PeerGuardian on hand to avoid connecting to bad servers and getting bad files. Otherwise, there's hundreds of copies of every song known to man, and almost always decent quality. But if you want albums, of truly decent quality... nothing better than torrents. AVOID the "BitTorrent" client like the plague - the "official" one that is. I despise BitComet (cheating piece of crap with a horrible interface), Azureus is a resource whore, ABC and the others... well, utter crap. µTorrent is the only decent client, but the coder just sold out to the creator of the original "BitTorrent", who has nasty ideas in mind for it. Grab it up while it's still clean - http://utorrent.com. As for sites to grab the stuff, I'll drop two words and leave it at that. Pirate Bay. Find that and you'll find God. And if you like it, BUY IT. BMG is a decent service. Or just go by Best Buy or something. DO NOT support "online downloads" like iTunes, Napster, or the like. Don't let the industry think we're letting them get away with DRM-polluted BS that we can't use on the MP3 player of our choice. Maybe if they just sold good quality MP3 files, I'd be more willing to buy MP3s... but in the meantime, MP3s can't be bought. Napster uses DRM as well. *sigh* My $0.02

You heard uTorrent partnered with BitTorrent? Might wanna ditch that.

Honestly, BitComet isnt that bad. Fairly good customization and simple interface (who needs anything but downloading files, statistics, and file veiw?)

quote Originally posted by antinull.com: take ur drm files make a CD IMAGE mount it to a fake drive with alcohol 120% and then rip it and delite the cd image there u got freedom mp3s and azereus uis my torrent prog of choice doesnt use alot of resources for me it makes downloding multiple files easier

Spoken like a true intellectual. Re-encoding files (e.g. burning then ripping) is probably the worst possible thing you could do to audio quality. Maybe if you downloaded lossless files with DRM, then transcoded those, it'd be acceptable (since it'd be the same as ripping from the original CD). But you're talking about transcoding a lossy format. Screw that!

quote Originally posted by AP2k: You heard uTorrent partnered with BitTorrent? Might wanna ditch that. Honestly, BitComet isnt that bad. Fairly good customization and simple interface (who needs anything but downloading files, statistics, and file veiw?)

You do realize that he already said that in the previous post by saying that they were sold out to the owner of BitTorrent right? or are you just totally blind and make comments before reading the entire post?

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Ouch.

Anyway, yoink.

If you are willing to pay for your music, get a premium news service. Giganews is the one I use, it is amazing. I have messed with torrents before and I am unimpressed. When you can download an entire CD in VBR quality with PARs at 1600KBps then I might try them again. I can download music faster than I can que it.

If you are interested in me giving you a quick walkthrough let me know. I shoot you the software I use and a referal to giganews, also show you my favorite indexing site. Finding what you want is just a search and 3 click away with newsgroups.

Lonzo

Forgot to mention movies and games available too.

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News is JUNK!!!! News is designed for NEWS, not warez and music! I forgot to mention news in my bashing session...

Yes, torrents can be junk too. In the nature of torrents, where there is no one searchable source for files, you need to know where to find the best ones. There's a site for everything. If you use crap like isohunt and the various Suprnova spinoffs, you get bupkis. If you use quality sites like Demonoid and TPB, you get good stuff. And if you want to go further, the best sites are the ones that have logins and ratios. OiNK was the best place to get music, but they started sucking and I gave up on 'em. There are countless torrent sites. You just need to use what works. And you'll never be disappointed by a torrent again.

eMule and µTorrent get me everything I need.

quote Originally posted by Darth88Formula: or are you just totally blind and make comments before reading the entire post?

If you are going to flame someone, at least dont make it applicable to yourself...

quote Originally posted by Falcon4: eMule for single songs - Kazaa is dirt dead, Shareaza is just another eDonkey2000 client (as eMule), WinMX is dead, LIMEWIRE IS DEAD (get the HELL over it, good god, it died 6+ years ago!!!)... the list of crappy "networks" goes on... But on eMule there are several "poser" servers handing out bad files. Keep PeerGuardian on hand to avoid connecting to bad servers and getting bad files. Otherwise, there's hundreds of copies of every song known to man, and almost always decent quality.

WinMX is not dead. I can find more on WinMX than I've been able to find on torrents. I don't even bother looking at torrents any more. If you are using old WinMX then it will not work. You need the new peer cache 3.0.