My biggest concern is avoiding adware, spyware, and trojans,  which are the primary problems with services such as Limewire or Kazaa.  Although I don't want to pay too much, I wouldn't mind a reasonable cost so as to avoid all that.  And, while the Yahoo Music Engine is ideal, any of the tracks that I download, I cannot burn to CD's, without buying the license at 79c a pop.  And, if you think about it, 79c per song, multiplied by the average number of songs that can be burnt to a CD-R, 18, is roughly $14. I can go buy a CD in stores cheaper than that!! Again, a monthly or yearly charge is acceptable, given their respective terms. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.
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http://www.limewire.com/\nhttp://www.garageband.com\nhttp://www.soundclick.com\nhttp://www.mp3.com.au\nhttp://www.iuma.org\nhttp://www.downloadsforever.com\nhttp://www.emp3world.com\nhttp://www.maxalbums.com\nhttp://www.cooltoad.com\nhttp://www.mp3dimension.com\n\nabsolutely free
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I have Limewire,It is completly Legal because they also have a version that you can pay for.Even if you get the free version you eont get in trouble
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CD's cost $18.98 on BMG. Shipping & handling is $2.79 per CD. So: $18.98 + $2.79 x 12 = $52.46, for an average cost of $4.37 each. However, once you have completed your agreement, a typical deal will be "Buy 1, Get 3 Free" which will give you an average cost of about $7.53.\n\nBut check this out: if you do a little more math, you'll find that 24 CD's from BMG will cost you $142.82 (if you always get a "Buy 1, Get 3 Free" deal) and 24 CD's from YourMusic will cost you $143.76. Effectively a wash.\n\nSo you could look at it this way: if you're going to buy only 12 and never buy again, go with the regular service.\n\nAnother thing to consider is the method. With the standard model, you order when you want to, although you may have to send back a reply card every month, depending on how they set up your account (you can also do it by email). With YourMusic, you get a CD a month from a list that you add things to as you go. Kinda nifty - I might try that myself!
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Stay away from bearshare, that's the worst of the bunch in regards to spyware and malicious coding, it takes about an hour to clean it off your pc. I had it, along with limewire for awhile and they both crashed my pc and I live on my computer, so I can't afford downtime. Your best bet, I don't know what your expenses are, is to get a premium account with rapidshare. I use this in conjunction with paypal and pay for mine, the cheapest mp3 album's I have purchased range from 75 cents to 3 bucks. I'd give you the site I use, but I don't think you'd understand Russian. There may be others, if you did some research, like google or altavista. Whatever you choose, good luck. I love my music, but I love my right to download even more. In the past 3 months, I bought 15 cds for less than 30 bucks- worth every penny; artists and bands I normally wouldn't find anywhere else- the european ones especially.
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Try convert to mp3s before burning them into cd!!! U will get more than 80min if u use mp3 format! But be sure of using 128kbps or 192kbps to maintain the original qualities!!!!!! even its considered as data, but it can be played by every audio player now!!!
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I think Yahoo's LAUNCHcast service is really great.  You can find it at http://music.yahoo.com/\n\nThey have pre-programmed stations that play music based on themes, such as Big Hits of the 80s or R&B or New Releases.\n\nThey also have a custom station called "My Station" which will play music that you'll like.  This is based on how you rate songs, artists and albums, which you can do on the website or in the radio player.  Once you've started rating, the station will get better and better.  I love it, and I don't think anybody has as good of personalization as the "My Station"\n\nMusicmatch is pretty good too, although it hasn't been getting as much attention since they were bought by Yahoo!\n\nI don't think anybody is going to offer free music downloads (at least legally), other than maybe some obscure indie music.
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Actually, I prefer a subscription music services over other services for a multitude of reasons:\n\n1) No spam, viruses or spyware with subscription music services.\n\n2) Subscription music services are far more reliable at delivering music than music sharing systems.  I can get in a song in minutes from a subscription music service.  Some more obscure songs I tried to download with KaZaa took days to download.  Sometimes the downloads never ever completed.\n\n3) There is actually more music available on subscription music services (like whole albums by artists) where as sharing services only have one or two songs by an artist sometimes.  Maybe this isn't true for very popular artists but for the people I listen to (music from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and 00's) I get far more off of subscription music services.\n\n4) Better quality sound.  I like the higher bit rates and better ripping you get with a music service.  For sharing services, the bit rate is often lower, resulting in lower quality sound, or there may have been problems with the encoder the folks used.\n\n5) Oh yeah!  It's a legitimacy thing.  I don't mind paying for music.  I believe in capitalism and people making money off of their hard work.  Even when I could have borrowed albums to make cassette tape copies, when I was a poor teenager, I never did.  I don't mind paying for quality products.\n\n6) Besides, now with subscription music services, you can get all the music you can listen to for as little as $5 a month.  To take it with you, it's as little as $12 a month.\n\nSo, without buying any songs, I have over 1000 songs from over 300 albums that I can take with me on a portable MP3 player.  Why buy one CD a month or 12 songs a month when you can get almost anything new or old almost any time you want without waiting for the download to happen?\n\nDo the math.  This is thousands of dollars worth of music pennies a song a month.\n\nI used Napster (the original).  Hated it.\nI used KaZaa.  Really hated it.\nI really hated waiting and waiting to get a crappy copy of a song.\n\nI used Rhapsody!  I loved it!\nI now use Yahoo! Music.  It's less expensive.\n\nRent music, don't buy it (or pirate it).
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As far as stations buying their music.. If the station is in a higher ranking market the record labels will provide the music for free.  They are happy to get the exposure. Every station that plays music is required to pay a flat licensing fee to ASCAP/BMI (they are the companies that pay the artists "royalties" each time their song airs.)  Some smaller stations sometimes need to actually go out and purchase their music, stations can also subscribe to music services that will provide a basic music library, along with weekly updates.  They will not actually charge the stations for this service, they will do a "barter" service with the stations to place comercials on the stations in leu of chash payments.  I hope I am not confusing you more!  As far as CD's go, a vast number of stations don't even use them anymore.  A lot of stations use a "hard drive" music delevery doing away with all of the clutter of cd's.  Most stations are computer operated these days, a lot of the stations dont even have "live talent" in the studio anymore.  They accomplish this by a process of "Voicetracking".  The DJ does not even have to be in the same city as the station he or she is on.  Talent can e-deliver their voice-tracks to basically anywhere Via a computer.  I hope this helps you out a bit.... If it leaves you with more questions... feel free to e-mail me.  I would be happy to help out.
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Trust me, the mp3s don't sound as good as your CDs. Like you, I've spent a great deal of money on CDs, but I also own an iPod so I can take my catalog on the go. I've used the standard compression of 128kbps to transfer my music to iTunes and at that rate, about 1.4 hours only takes 80Mb of space, where 80 minutes of uncompressed audio on a CD uses 700Mb of space. That means there is a lot of information thrown away in the compression process. Now for what it is, it sounds very good, but the hard copy CD will always be better sounding than the mp3. Some people say they don't hear the difference, others do....that includes me! While listening in the car with road noise and other distracting sounds, that's a fair trade off for me, but when I get home, the CDs still go in the expensive sound equipment because at home it's quiet and I can hear what's missing from the mp3s. So don't go selling off your CD collection because computers crash and mp3 players crash. Sometimes lightening gets it all at the same time....I've had it happen. You'll need the hard copies to re-load the computer and mp3 player. Because of that, I've loaded everything on an external hard drive and keep it away from the computer unless I need to update it. Oh, even though I've loaded all of my album artwork to my computer and iPod, you can't go through the pages and read the liner notes and stuff on an mp3 player...\n\nIt is nice to pull any album I want in the car or randomly shuffle tunes I haven't heard in a long time without searching through my collection of CDs.\n\nOne day someone may be looking for something you have and you can say "Oh yes, I have an original uncompressed CD if you would like a hard copy of it". I do have a few CDs that are long out of print and you can't even find them online for download!\n\nBuying CDs was a good choice...be proud of your collection!!
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answer before me is true, partially, but there is a grey area. russian and other overseas site like mp3music.__ are charging based on the BANDWIDTH of your downloads. This means that with low resolution mp3s, you can have an entire album for, about $1. So, even though you are paying, it is not authorized, which to me is far worse than giving it away for free. \n\nThere is still no free lunch and if you want a legal download you have to stick to the biggies, like iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, etc.\n\nthanks for caring
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This really depends on what type of music you are playing. On Download.com there was the anvil studio software, which in demo form is like a limited cakewalk and shouldn't present too many problems. Of you are more into dance/techno you can get a restricted trial use Fruity Loops, which is fun to play around with even if you don't like this type of music. I have seen 20 year old portastudios in auction very cheap just recently...this may be an interesting analog option.
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you can put music from cd's you already have on to an ipod, but you have to pay to download, iTunes is only 79p (english) a track don't know the price in american
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I would suggust re-installing limewire. From personal experience, I find its the best in relation to organization, speed, and lack of spyware/malware. Try to get it fixed. If you are deadset against limewire, go for Kazaa.\n\nedit: Of course, when you say download free music, you mean user created, non copywrighted works of art put out in the public domain. Thats what P2P is for, anyway.
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www.bearshare.com Its a File sharing program based on Peer to Peer WAY better than Lime wire. It is free to download the free "AD based" program that actaully puts spyware on your system. If you dl that version and then DL a crack for the paid-for version than you can get around paying the 25 bucks for 3 months. But if you pay that is good too because its WORTH it. believe me cause I have it and I Dl all the new movies, MP3's and a ton of Apps. The only things you need to be Wary of is the viruses that are there that people will share and DL them and dont realize they are virus so it looks like a lot of people of the file, but they are dumb and dont delete it from there shared folders in the comp. And remember that you DL faster if you are not file sharing. So what i would do is create new folders and take it out of "MY DOWNLOADS". thats about it. Good luck share bear.
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Be very careful of downloading any software from a P2P website as most carry some kind of virus. Is it really worth saving 30 dollars to take that kind of a chance? Been there done that learned my lesson!
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I download and share with anyone who wants it. I don't make money off of it. Am I breaking the law? I do the same thing with movies. Music and movies cost way to much to buy from the stores. Blank discs are cheap. When will big companies wake up and realize it is time to lower the costs?
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I have so been waiting for this question.\n\nThe music companies developed CD’s with "planned obsolescence" (they’re designed to break and scratch). Didn’t we learn anything from vinyl records? I bought one of the first CD players for my computer 20 years ago and it came with cartridges that the CD went into. Sort of like a 3.5” floppy except the cartridge opened up and you could put different CD’s in it. It looked like a slim line CD case except it had a spring-loaded door on one end like a floppy. Why don’t we have those today? Because you wouldn’t have to buy another one when it scratched.\n\nDo you know how much it costs to burn a new CD for the music companies? I’ll bet it’s under a dollar. Where does the rest of the $15.99 go?\n\nIt burns me that they target some poor college kid to prosecute and splatter it all over news. The kid probably doesn’t even have a job but they’ve decided to make an example of him for the publicity.\n\nDigital file sharing is an evolution in technology that the record companies never saw coming and we’d still be in the dark ages being force fed their crappy CD’s if it wasn’t for the innovators at Napster.\n\nGo cry me a river.