any free mp3 websites for music left?

[hconnorjr]

just noticed that bearshare is gone. any filesharing sites left?

 

[Shockwave]

PM me, for some reaosn I cant PM you

 

[PliotronX]

May I present to you, the Swiss Army Knife of filesharing.

 

[hconnorjr]

thanks guys. just what i was looking for. by the way, found the new bearshare on the site, but couldn't get the downloads i was looking for. wish that kazaa was still in business.

 

[4824guy]

Audiogalaxy still seems to work.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I personally like Best Buy's selection 😉

 

[Jonnybaby]

The local Best Buy has some sort of policy against file sharing. Not that they carry much.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< The local Best Buy has some sort of policy against file sharing. Not that they carry much. >>



You should share your money for files. It works much better than trying to walk out with cds under your jacket.

 

[Sunner]

I like Audiogalaxy best.

AFAIK there's no spyware included, and there's lots of "obscure" music available, which is a huge plus for someone with my taste, considdering I can usually find lots of music there that I cant find at stores around here.

 

[Speedo]

Here's a site where you can download music for free: http://www.upsweden.com, allthough only from bands in their community. Very cool and different kinds of electronic music. I suggest you take a look!

 

[breathe]

<< thanks guys. just what i was looking for. by the way, found the new bearshare on the site, but couldn't get the downloads i was looking for. wish that kazaa was still in business. >>



Kazaa is still in buisness....ive been downloading stuff, so it must be working...

 

[Muse]

Do you need to download and install file sharing applications for these sites? I went to Audiogalaxy and that seems to be what's up there. What are the tradeoffs here? Are there security considerations? I'm running a firewall, Zonealarm. Thanks.

 

[CrimsonKing]

Just got broadband a few weeks ago and Kazaa Lite was my first install. The quality out there seems to beat the pants off the gnuetella network. Very nice. No spyware. I highly recommend. Search the hotdeals forum for Kazaa lite. Someone posted a link a few weeks ago.

That being said, I'm not a fan of copyright piracy, so I'm only recommending this for downloading media in the public domain. . .

 

[hconnorjr]

i'm not a fan of piracy myself. but i do demand convenience. if the darn music industry could get their act together and make all songs available on a subscription basis i'd sign on and pay the monthly fee. the industry would be better off (much cheaper distribution) the artist would be better off (can you say higher royalties) and the customer would be better off. until then i use the filesharing stuff.

 

[CrimsonKing]

Too bad it won't happen for the last reason you mentioned. I'll use the systems to figure out what I want, but in the end, I'm slapping my ten bucks down for a CD if I like the music for several reasons: one, I feel the need to support the artist making the music. Two, I hate the idea of poor quality MP3s. As a bonus, I love the packaging and reading material (most of my new purchases have gone toward establishing a jazz collection and they prove very valuable to me education-wise).

If they distributed online, it would have to be in the form of .wav files. And most people can't accomodate that. So for now, I treat it like a library. I listen and I get rid of it if I don't like it (just wasting space). What I do like, I try to buy.

If you're interested in getting good-quality music for free, check out FurthurNet, a client for sharing lossless music from bands that have tolerant live-taping policies. It's legal, and they use a compressed format that doesn't sacrifice any sound quality (called .shn, or shorten). Pretty neat stuff. I've found lots of interesting music so far. The majority of the collections are Greatful Dead and other jam bands, since that's where the taping trend took off, but there's a wide range of artists and genres. A lot of the recordings are direct to digital off the soundboards, so they sound great. [I am in no way affiliated. Just happy.]

I also try to support artist-friendly labels like Robert Fripp's DGM, but they're in somewhat of a reconfiguration right now, so I'm not sure what's going on there.

Anyhow, just thought I'd throw two more cents out there.