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What do you use to download music nowadays?

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i've been using blubster and it seems ok. there will never be another napster though.

comp625, don't forget you need to set your router up to work with blubster, it won't work right out of the "box."
 
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.
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Actually your wrong. Downloading MP3's is not illegal. Downloading copyrighted music is illegal, in any format. That?s like saying divx videos are illegal. Just being picky. 😛🙂
 
ive been pretty good about buying my cds now. half.com is awesome. bmgmusic is good too ... except i keep having to send back their monthly cds
 
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.
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I had to do some research on Copyright Laws in my E-Commerce class, and I found that it is legal to download copyrighted MP3's as long as you delete them within 24 hours of the time you downloaded it. Anyways, most people want to know what they are buying before they buy a cd. Who wants to waste money on junk?
 
I don't download music anymore, but if I did, I'd probably do it through USENET. I tried installing Kazaa and it installed that Gator thing. That was enough for me to not use it again.
 
If you are so particular about 192 kbps, download from anywhere decode it and encode it again to bit rate of your choice. Personally I use Kazaa lite and WinMX to download and lame for the encoding and decoding.
 
Originally posted by: MaTTCNA
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.
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I had to do some research on Copyright Laws in my E-Commerce class, and I found that it is legal to download copyrighted MP3's as long as you delete them within 24 hours of the time you downloaded it. Anyways, most people want to know what they are buying before they buy a cd. Who wants to waste money on junk?
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i remember seeing that in the ghetto old school days of dialup on those mp3 websites. delete after 24 hours. =)
 
Originally posted by: GoodToGo
If you are so particular about 192 kbps, download from anywhere decode it and encode it again to bit rate of your choice. Personally I use Kazaa lite and WinMX to download and lame for the encoding and decoding.
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You can't replace quality that is lost by recording at 128.
 
Originally posted by: GoodToGo
If you are so particular about 192 kbps, download from anywhere decode it and encode it again to bit rate of your choice. Personally I use Kazaa lite and WinMX to download and lame for the encoding and decoding.
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ummmm WRONG !
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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.
 
I just realized I actually still have some exe installers for various p2p programs.

Code: 
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.
 
Red Squirrel said:
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.
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Heh - you totally should
 
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.
 
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