What do you use to download music nowadays?

[BW86]

I was very confused reading this until I looked at the date.

 

[zinfamous]

I was very confused reading this until I looked at the date.

lol @Kazaa with second post.

 

[IronWing]

Bandcamp mostly

 

[lxskllr]

Love Bandcamp. If it isn't on there, I probably won't buy it.

 

[rh71]

I like Clipgrab for laptop. You can DL YouTube videos. Don't know if you can DL in MP3 format.

On the phone I was using TubeMate. Can't DL straight to phone anymore, so that sucks. Besides that, I just use Spotify. It's free. Gotta put up with ads, but it's still good.

Great tip for dl'ing YT videos (for audio too) - just delete the "ube" from the youtube.com URL.

Try it now... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ seriously.

 

[Muse]

So what do you guys use to get 192kbps or higher mp3s?

I don't. I'm OK with 128kbps.

 

[Muse]

Grab-it + newsgroups = gigs of MP3's a day.

Newsgroups still exist? Man, I used to hang out in those all the time. Still have a zillion posts saved in my email/newsgroup client. But the newsgroup I liked the most got super fucked up by spammers.

 

[nakedfrog]

I don't. I'm OK with 128kbps.

Gross.

 

[Muse]

Gross.

Bad hearing. I just can't hear the difference. Maybe I would, but when I listen to 128k it does not sound gross to me.

 

[nakedfrog]

At 128k the impact is most noticeable on cymbals and guitar solos higher on the neck, I'd say.

 

[NutBucket]

It's either bad hearing or a crappy stereo.

 

[sdifox]

Well, Amazon when I do download. But I mostly stream or listen to mp3s.
I signed up for HD Tracks but haven't seen much that I would listen too.

Roll your windows down and stream Carmina Burana to your car speakers?

 

[BUTCH1]

Great tip for dl'ing YT videos (for audio too) - just delete the "ube" from the youtube.com URL.

Try it now... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ seriously.

Ba-hahahah!, you got me dude!

 

[13Gigatons]

misty mountain memories of the way we were...

FLAC

 

[DominionSeraph]

I just realized I actually still have some exe installers for various p2p programs.

ares p2p.exe          kazaalite243e.exe           winmx331.exe
bitcomet_setup.exe    Shareaza_2.4.0.0.exe        winmx353.exe
BitTorrent-3.4.1.exe  Shareaza_2.5.2.0_Win32.exe
DCSetup-220.exe       utorrent.exe

I don't know the exact year those files would have been downloaded but it's probably safe enough to say that someone born then is probably in high school now. I feel old.

I'm kinda curious to load them up in a Windows VM to see if it will actually connect. Would take a while but maybe it will actually eventually go through. If enough people are by chance still using it, it will work. The neat thing with these protocols unlike torrents is that they were decentralized.

Bittorrent 3.4.1 came out in 2004, which means that uTorrent is probably from before it could be said to have worked. (1.6 in 2006)

 

[FeuerFrei]

Mostly AMazon with occasional forays into CDBaby. CDBaby offers 320 kbps.

Back when this thread started it was all off WinMX.

 

[Iron Woode]

I just realized I actually still have some exe installers for various p2p programs.

ares p2p.exe          kazaalite243e.exe           winmx331.exe
bitcomet_setup.exe    Shareaza_2.4.0.0.exe        winmx353.exe
BitTorrent-3.4.1.exe  Shareaza_2.5.2.0_Win32.exe
DCSetup-220.exe       utorrent.exe

I don't know the exact year those files would have been downloaded but it's probably safe enough to say that someone born then is probably in high school now. I feel old.

I'm kinda curious to load them up in a Windows VM to see if it will actually connect. Would take a while but maybe it will actually eventually go through. If enough people are by chance still using it, it will work. The neat thing with these protocols unlike torrents is that they were decentralized.

I hated shareaza and winmx. I hated ares, too.

I posted in this thread back in 02. LOL

 

[Carson Dyle]

BitTorrent. I'm still using uTorrent 2.2.1 (build 25302), which was the last version before the developers went stupid and started monetizing it. Works fine, although it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of newer clients.

I finally gave up my paid newsgroup server subscription last year because I just wasn't using it enough. I have about 4000 albums in my collection, all FLAC, some hi-res, but I've only been adding three or four new albums a month in recent years. I still haven't ripped my classical collection of CDs, because it drives me crazy. My music server doesn't handle classical music very well, so it takes a lot of fiddling with tagging to make things half-way organized and I lose my mind every time I try. So I just spin the CDs.

 

[snoopy7548]

Another BitTorrent user here with a little over 2000 albums. My seedbox has r/rutorrent. I only download FLAC rips, sometimes SACD or higher-quality 24/192 stuff. I'll occasionally grab high-quality vinyl rips of albums that I think deserve it.

 

[DigDog]

Youtube.

Yes youtube.

 

[BUTCH1]

Mostly AMazon with occasional forays into CDBaby. CDBaby offers 320 kbps.

Back when this thread started it was all off WinMX.

Shoot, I remember the days when Napster first came out, most of the rips were of the 128Kb varity and very lossy but it was so cool to see people posting good old music. Digital anarchy had arrived..

 

[Red Squirrel]

Youtube.

Yes youtube.

What I find weird about youtube is how you can find all sorts of music and sometimes even movies on there uploaded by 3rd parties, yet if you happen to use it as background music or even use a partial movie clip in your own video you immediately get nailed with a copyright strike. Seems youtube plays favourites. They'll allow it on a bigger channel because they have ads but they won't let it on a small channel.

 

[paperfist]

I stopped messing around with mp3s, CDs, and mix tapes. I now lease my music and throw my money out the window with amazon music, Apple Music and Tidal.

Would still like to know how these artists end up with McMansions, Lambos and bleep when no one pays for their music. And what ever happened to the RIAA?!?

 

[IronWing]

I stopped messing around with mp3s, CDs, and mix tapes. I now lease my music and throw my money out the window with amazon music, Apple Music and Tidal.

Would still like to know how these artists end up with McMansions, Lambos and bleep when no one pays for their music. And what ever happened to the RIAA?!?

That's why I like bandcamp. Artists actually get paid for their work.

 

[paperfist]

That's why I like bandcamp. Artists actually get paid for their work.

lol I actually thought that was some kind of American Pie joke. Will check out.