How is everybody downloading music these days?

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ace_

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Minus buying it- im a cheap ass i know.

I have frostwire, just downloaded it, and itunes. problem is, i tryed to do the sync of the library's and saving and whatnot and its not working for me. And i really just want to download individual songs and not torrent a whole album.

What is everybody doing, and if they have a suggestion to fix my problem then please tell me, i need music on my pod.
 
frostwire = bad choice. only p2p stuff you should be doing is through torrents (utorrent etc)

use direct dl sites. much safer, much faster. and you dont need to worry about seeders etc. mediafire, rghost etc
 
k. whats p2p?

and direct sites, how to i search for music? must i sign up then be able to search? or do i have to ask all the time to get what im looking for?
 
peer to peer. summed up, it means downloading off other people. direct downloading is downloading things off file hosting websites (mediafire etc..) where people have uploaded files. peer to peer is dangerous because you never know if the file is legit or whether it has been tampered with since the file can be hosted by random people (not safe sites).

just search the name of the song (sometimes the artist as well if the track is less known) and a file hosting website name after that in google.

for example: lady gaga disco stick mediafire

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lady+gaga+disco+stick+mediafire

and the first link is what a correct mediafire link should look like. after you get familiar with using direct dl sites, music downloading is much easier
 
lately ive been going heavily on the torrents, things like complete artist discography and stuff. no intention of switching any time soon.
 
can someone explain the whole torrent deal? I may be a noob but it sounds like this is the best route. Oh and i use a mac
 
honestly, this is the easiest way:

google the artist name, album name or song name, depending on what you're

looking for, then follow that by site:mediafire.com

so it should be like this: The Ladykiller site:mediafire.com

by the way, it'll make your life easier if you have winrar, but there are zip

files too.

anyway, click on the links that show up, and download. way easier then torrents

or frostwire, and it's virus free
 
I just rip music off other peoples ipods. If i want a song that no one has i just use windows movie maker and i record them of line. Put it on stereo mix and it sounds as good as itunes
 
Torrenting:

You don't need to know how it works, just how to use it.

The easiest way is to download utorrent, here:http://www.utorrent.com/.

Then, if you need anything, go to thepiratebay.org and search for it. Usually it will be there. If you're sketched out about something, check the comments. There's one catch, that's seeding. The up arrows next to the thing you want to download is how many people are seeding it. The more seeding, the more trustworthy it is and the faster it will DL.

Direct download:

To directly download a specific song, I use beemp3.com. For whole albums, I go to google.com and search site:mediafire.com (artist name here) (album name here). To find trustworthy links, look at the sizes of all the downloads, the most common size is most likely the safest.

More sites to use the direct download method with, megaupload, hotfile, 4shared, and netload.

Enjoy getting shit for free.

 
type in "site:mediafire" after the artist or album, so google searches only mediafire. works soooo well.

e.g.:

Goillaz plastic beach site:mediafire.com

enjoy!
 
pandorajam

auto downloads music from pandora

sometimes youtube to mp3 in HQ mode, doesnt sound that shitty yet

sometimes its just free, and other than that mediafire
 
Mostly legal, every now and then youtube when I don't feel like paying. The way I see it, a lot of the music I buy comes from small guys so mine as well help them out a little, small artists don't make bank anymore.
 
ive had similar experiences in the wsu dorms. almost weekly we'll have meetings where they threaten us and say they're monitoring our bandwidth and will expel us if we download any music illegally. its pretty funny actually, mostly because kids dont realize you have to download albums upon albums at a time to change the bandwidth in a dorm that has hundreds of kids online at a time.
 
archive.org has just about every jambands shows uploaded to it from most nights up there. and it's all free and legal, and its good music. def worth checking out
 
70 to 90 cent for a single song @ amazon or itunes do seem good value to me. If you're unable to buy songs, it's probably due to the fact that you are not satisfied with 20 or 30 new songs each month, but need to download every discography of every artist you come across. That's not listening to music imo, that's silly consumerist impulse.

There might be a point about not supporting certain major labels (WMG for example, because of their muting of youtube videos), but concerning any other artist/label: for god's sake, BUY IT!
 
I use zamzar, mainly because I don't have my own computer at the moment and it's the only thing that allows me to download at the library/college

if you can find it on youtube you can download in on there, you can also download videos to avi and dvd and stuff like that.

http://zamzar.com/url

 
Hey, for cheap quality tunes:

1. Sign up for Napster ($10/month). The quality is great, no viruses, huge library.

2. Then buy Protected Music Converter ($20).http://www.wma-mp3.com/protected-music-converter.html

When you download songs from Napster they are protected. If you want to burn a protected song to ipod or CD you'll need to pay for it unless you run it through the converter. So basically for $20 up front and $10 a month you have unlimited full album downloads. Download tracks from Napster, then batch convert the folder through PM Converter.

Heads up, this worked fine on my old computer, but now with Windows 7 the final mp3 sometimes is sped up and skippy in sections. Not sure why, usually just run the track through again and it's fine.

Cheers.
 
Speaking of torrents, does anyone have an alternative to what.cd they use? What.cd was a great invite only torrent site years ago that had literally everything but it got shut down.
 
14242833:.nasty said:
Speaking of torrents, does anyone have an alternative to what.cd they use? What.cd was a great invite only torrent site years ago that had literally everything but it got shut down.
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Agreed.

The new one is called redacted.ch - I don't have any invites at the moment but if I do I'll let you know!
 
14244699:P3t3r said:
Agreed.

The new one is called redacted.ch - I don't have any invites at the moment but if I do I'll let you know!
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Ah man if you ever do or know anyone that does, that'd be rad. Sick of thepiratebay and it's inconsistency.
 
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