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What do you guys use for legal mp3s and mp3 players?

JohnCU

JohnCU

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My cousin bought an iRiver Friday night, and uses MSN to buy music, but she said it wouldn't work on her player. I would assume that iTunes or something should work, otherwise what's the point of buying the mp3 player if you can't buy legal music for it?
 
for legal music, I go to a record store and buy a couple CD's.

I used iTunes after getting some free codes from Pepsi, but quickly burned the files to a cd and ripped them as MP3's.
 
Yeah, I told her she could burn the music, then rip it back to mp3, and put it on her player but didn't wanna make it that complicated for her.
 
MSN puts that protection on the fles so you cant transfer them around

I use winamp to play stuff on the comp
I either Rip my own CDs or Download them from AllofMP3.com
play on my Zen Xtra
 
For legal music, the best quality can still only be had through buying the CD and ripping it. I've heard that some recent CDs have ripping protections, but I haven't run into one yet myself. Even my St. Anger CD ripped fine with iTunes, and I would think that if you can make MP3s out of that, you can do it with anything... 😉
 
Legal MP3s: used CDs + EAC + LAME 3.96.1 --preset extreme (I know, I know, but I can ABX two songs from standard, so there!). $6-$10 per CD, so very cost-effective, though it requires time. Really, I just try to make 2/3 of them used, because some you don't find used, and must give $ straight to the RIAA for (I realize it is just shifting, but I like that the RIAA money came from someone else's pocket, not mine 🙂), such as Pink Floyd albums in general.

For MP3 players...none yet (DJC01, RIP), but I may have to give in and get a iAudio G3.
 
Originally posted by: JohnCU
Yeah, I told her she could burn the music, then rip it back to mp3, and put it on her player but didn't wanna make it that complicated for her.
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It ain't brain surgery.
Give a man a fish...
 
*waits for Gurck to come in and crap on thread*
i use the iTMS and, it works great for me. im pretty picky about sound quality and most of the songs i've downloaded sounded pretty damn nice. there were only a few that i wish were higher quality.
 
Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
For legal music, the best quality can still only be had through buying the CD and ripping it. I've heard that some recent CDs have ripping protections, but I haven't run into one yet myself. Even my St. Anger CD ripped fine with iTunes, and I would think that if you can make MP3s out of that, you can do it with anything... 😉
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Yeah, I heard about that. But most of them have had to be changed because they would only play in a certain player or not on a coputer at all. The government got in a stink about that and had it changed. But I've heard of an Idea of bundling software with the CD that autoruns and plays the disc. Seems pointless, because it would have to run on all OSes. Not to mention, aren't we entitled to a backup copy of our discs?
 
iTunes and iPod Shuffle (mostly for working out)

Looking at doing some used CD buying to get better quality for playing on my stereo (maybe using FLAC or higher quality AAC).
 
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