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NWR: Music downloads
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 5:18 pm
by TORB
Hi Good Peoples,
Does anyone here download music to their computer? If so which site or sites do you recommend and why?
Many thanks in advance.
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:24 pm
by Gary W
www.allofmp3.com - The have a good selection of Bert Bacharach and Andy Williams for you.
You just pay for bandwidth and download a client (optional).
Is about $1 per CD... the free peer to peer is a bit risky IMO
GW
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 9:07 pm
by cranky
I joined up with the one offered through
ninemsn, back before iTunes arrived and they put up their prices to match
The site is run from a UK based provider, loads pages as fast as continental drift, and I have had a couple of dud downloads (ie: corrupted and unplayable). The content is largely Top 40, without a lot of depth, and they have listings for songs that they don't have licences for (which means you can't actually buy those songs from them).
I did get a refund on a dodgy download after I raised the issue, but the best advice they could offer was "Don't try to download that particular song again."
Not recommended.
The cheapest
commercial site I have seen is
http://www.emusic.com, but it is based in the USA and is subscription only (ie: you pay a set minimum per month which allows a certain amount of songs per month)
Check out
http://www.destramusic.com.au to see if it suits your needs.
http://www.mp3.com.au has a bunch of free downloads, but you will have to sort a lot of chaff to get to what you might like.
Or there are the P2P file sharing programs, but I have not tried them out (and probably never will - I don't trust 'em!)
Good luck!
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:01 pm
by tex0403
torb go to limewire.com download the program (its free) and then you can download as much music as you want free of charge, not that i condone such actions.
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 1:34 am
by beef
If you're not interested in legality, and you're willing to apply some effort to setting it up correctly, and you've a decent (>= 512kb/s) connection, and you leave your computer on 24/7, then you can't go past eMule.
http://www.emule-project.net/
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:19 am
by Muscat Mike
tex0403 wrote:torb go to limewire.com download the program (its free) and then you can download as much music as you want free of charge, not that i condone such actions.
I would second Limewire. Has a huge variety and downloads are quite quick.
Everything from Jazz to Classics.
MM.
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 10:36 am
by Baby Chickpea
I use several: eMule, limewire, bittorrent, kazaa K-Lite (only now for old stuff as too much junk for new releases) - I also dont condone illegal sites
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 7:30 pm
by rednut
Sent you a PM Torb..