What do you use to download music nowadays?

[Comp625]

I know...do a search....blah been there done that. The thing is, everyone's suggestions all have problems now.

Kazaa - Most music is encoded in 128kbps...you're lucky if you can find 192kbps
WinMX - Queue city! Out of say 15 people who have a certain song, you can only download from 1 or 2 of those 15 people due to long queue lines.
Blubster - I can't even connect to their servers now.
Direct Connect - this program is a pain for those who have smaller hard drives like myself (40gb)
IRC - Ok I wouldn't know where/how to get the music that *I* want...(which are more rare songs, not mainstream pop stuff)

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

 

[FrogDog]

I use Kazaa Lite and settle for 128kbps when I can't find a 192. It doesn't make much difference to me anyways.

 

[Atrail]

Kazaa or FTP...

 

[Lars]

I do not download a lot of music but if I do I get MP3s from newsgroups (quality is 128 to 320 kbps, depending on who posted them).

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

FTP

 

[klah]

trenchcoat

 

[BeauJangles]

I use blubster. It's definately the best of the file-sharing programs. I must say, with Kaaza lite, however, it seems i get much better search results then with the usual software... weird.

 

[NewSc2]

agreed that kazaa lite music quality sucks. i can tell the difference between 128 and 192, and especially if the 128 was a radio recording or something weird like that (which i've gotten a LOT)

 

[GTaudiophile]

Kazaa Lite. I tried Blubster. It's okay, but needs work.

 

[0roo0roo]

Kazaa - Most music is encoded in 128kbps...you're lucky if you can find 192kbps

even worse is they generally don't use eac/lame, probably audio catylst or something cruddy like it.

kazaa is only for when i'm desperate.

 

[smp]

Downloading MP3's is illegal and wrong. I buy all of my music because I think that the artists deserve to get paid too.

 

[Staples]

Quality sucks? Things are harder to get nowdays? Maybe the RIAA is succeeding in its fight, I am sure they will be happy. I don't download or listen to much music but when I do, I use Kazza. I have never analyzed the difference but I doubt I'd be able to hear it since both sound like CD quality to me.

 

[wellerdball]

someone already started the typical "oh its wrong to download mp3s""im better than you because i buy my cds" Am i just supposed to walk into the warehouse and puckup a wellerdball,blutengel,vnv nation,and other bands i would of never ever found out about if it werent for the net

 

[Staples]

Originally posted by: smp
Downloading MP3's is illegal and wrong. I buy all of my music because I think that the artists deserve to get paid too.

I don't know if that is supposed to be sarcastic but I will never complain about my brother downloading music from artists such as Eminem and other rap music that I don't think deserves to be bought. Anyway, the quoted pasage is my attitude towards software. I can't believe there are idiots who believe Windows should be free just because Microsoft has a lot of money.

 

[amnesiac]

USENET.

Best for new albums and full albums- Jurassic 5's new one was available a month ago, Xibit's came out 2 weeks ago, and the 8 Mile soundtrack got released this week as well.

Also people post full collections of artists as well as boatloads of bootlegs.
Best part is that you can tell instantly if they're full files, and most are in 192kbps.

 

[handoverfist]

Try this

Doesn't have much hard to find stuff, but hey the transfers are fast. I usally get a constant 350Kb/s and peak at about 500Kb/s

 

[Stifko]

Gnucleus

 

[GT1999]

Connection problems aside, once I got it working Blubster works great and I'll never use anything else.

I leave my 512kbps upload up and serve MP3s all night. Not much, but since I get great speeds with Blubster I figure I'll serve what I have

 

[Lars]

Originally posted by: wellerdball
someone already started the typical "oh its wrong to download mp3s""im better than you because i buy my cds" Am i just supposed to walk into the warehouse and puckup a wellerdball,blutengel,vnv nation,and other bands i would of never ever found out about if it werent for the net

Someone is actually listening to good music.

edit: check out "neuroticfish", "terminal choice", "apoptygma berzerk", "covenant", and "wumpscut"

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: smp
Downloading MP3's is illegal and wrong. I buy all of my music because I think that the artists deserve to get paid too.

I swear to God this dude has a macro button to inject that line into every music trading thread that comes up - annoying!

 

[Iron Woode]

Blubster and Audio Gnome.

 

[wfbberzerker]

kazaa lite
or mucman

 

[Aceshigh]

I thought Audiognome was no more? Or at least gutted like Napster was.

 

[Evadman]

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

 

[FrustratedUser]

Gnucleus works just fine.