help finding mp3s

[rydia57]

Hi,


I'm having to resort to getting an mp3 player due to all my cassette players dying on me. Where's a good site to download mp3s hopefully for free...or at least a good price? Thanx!

 

[Noira]

Downloading .mp3s for free is illegal if you're looking for 'published artist' MP3s... iTunes and Amazon are pretty good for buying mp3s.

If you like video game music/techno, www.ocremix.org for free video game remixes--this is legal, of course, it's fan made music. I'm quite a fan of the stuff, a lot of variety and by your signature--looks like you're into Final Fantasy, and they have a lot of Final Fantasy remixes. A lot of Chrono Trigger and everything else too... but yeah, geeky music and it's free. =D

 

[Xander06]

But those nasty world hating people who rip off musicians usually do it through peer to peer file sharing programs like limewire. You can download the program for free and all you have to do is search and click and your there

 

[rydia57]

Downloading .mp3s for free is illegal if you're looking for 'published artist' MP3s... iTunes and Amazon are pretty good for buying mp3s.

If you like video game music/techno, www.ocremix.org for free video game remixes--this is legal, of course, it's fan made music. I'm quite a fan of the stuff, a lot of variety and by your signature--looks like you're into Final Fantasy, and they have a lot of Final Fantasy remixes. A lot of Chrono Trigger and everything else too... but yeah, geeky music and it's free. =D

Yeah, the geeky music I have plenty of. I collect midis and wavs of them on my computer. But for my rock and alternative collection, the player will only play mp3s... and wavs Maybe Amazon is th only one for now. I just went to mp3.com, can't find anything there. Plenty of reviews to read tho...

 

[Noira]

OCRemix is MP3s.

Otherwise, Limewire does have people who OH THE HORROR put music on there for DOWNLOADING...

What, oh, fine....

Also, if you're looking to get entire CDs or albums, www.thepiratebay.org, it contains .torrent files. Including MP3s for video games, rather than wavs and midis... and rock groups... But frequently in CD sets. Torrents are pretty useful if you want to download a lot but don't want to do it all in one shot.

And if you use Limewire, those files labled things like TOP 40 TRACK! or AWESOME HIPHOP or the exact name of your search and a very small file size are spam files, don't download them. They're bots/viruses that recognize your searches, change their name to suit and then just give you a spam message about a site to visit or whatever. Also, no .zip files.

And Amazon works pretty well and if you drink a ton of Pepsi you can collect Pepsi points to buy MP3s. I've seen people trade items in MMORPGs for people's codes. Something to consider as well.

I hear rave reviews about people who use iTunes to buy single tracks. Personally, I'm a fan of a hard collection of CDs so I buy whenever I can directly from concerts... and Amazon occasionally, it seems to work fairly well. And the price for buying just the MP3s like that... it's usually a dollar per song, so it's cheaper than the CD. I just like the hard copies.

Consider checking out your local library for the CD versions of the cassettes you own, too.

Just saying.

 

[SweetErika]

I think last I checked, Walmart had the best price on mp3's. I'm not sure if they have them in a proprietary format or not (which is the problem with iTunes; IIRC, you can't, say, buy a song and put it on your PC, mp3 player AND burn it to CD because of their file protection shit).

It goes against copyright protction, but if you're ooking for free, check out torrents. I often download for free to figure out if I like something enough to buy it or not, since it can be hard to determine that with a clip. The better torrent sites (IMO) like Mininova have a lot of users giving feedback on the files so one is more likely to get a good copy, avoiding the fakes and poor quality files. However, torrent files can easily be found wherever they exist by googling the name of the song/movie/artist/whatever along with "torrent" (e.g. google Aerosmith torrent or Aerosmith Crazy torrent). And because you're usually downloading little bits of the file from many different sources, you're less likely to have security problems than if you were getting it from one or a few random sources.

 

[Noira]

It goes against copyright protction, but if you're ooking for free, check out torrents. I often download for free to figure out if I like something enough to buy it or not, since it can be hard to determine that with a clip.

Yeah, agreed. That's the only reason I download... try before you buy... heh. And then obsessively buy! WHEE!

With torrents, I stand by my recommendation. I don't like googling randomly... I'd rather get things from a site where people can affirm there's no virus.

I didn't know WalMart sold MP3s, though. I'll have to check that one out...

 

[Quoll]

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[Paxter]

Ok. So I am going to show my ignorance here i have used sites such as Limewire before but I have never used a torrent site. Do you need any special programmes to download/play the files you receive. Also do they come in mp3 format?

 

[Noira]

A .torrent file is sort of like a zip file. To download them, you need a program like BitTorrent or BitTornado. The download opens in there and it's peer-to-peer sharing, so you're downloading off other people while they download off you if you have more of the file than they do. The people who have the entire file are called seeds. It can take a while and often files aren't always seeded, but PirateBay shows which are seeded at the moment, and how many 'leeches' there are.

The files you receive are occasionally zipped or .rar files, like zips... for CDs, most often they're MP3s or WMAs. When you open the file in BitTorrent, it'll tell you the contents of the .torrent in the window that lets you select where to save them.

Torrents are used for a lot of things, they're a peer to peer sharing file, that breaks whatever you're sharing--music, fonts, programs, movies--into bits, and they need to be seeded. The seed has the entire file, leeches are the ones downloading from the seeds. They're a way of downloading large files without having to do it all at once.

 

[Paxter]

thank you for the explanation Noira. As an old friend of mine once said, it's a bad day if you don't learn something! I will have to give this .torrent thing a go. Which of the programmes you mentioned would be the best?

 

[NoLeafClover7]

I think last I checked, Walmart had the best price on mp3's. I'm not sure if they have them in a proprietary format or not (which is the problem with iTunes; IIRC, you can't, say, buy a song and put it on your PC, mp3 player AND burn it to CD because of their file protection shit).

It goes against copyright protction, but if you're ooking for free, check out torrents. I often download for free to figure out if I like something enough to buy it or not, since it can be hard to determine that with a clip. The better torrent sites (IMO) like Mininova have a lot of users giving feedback on the files so one is more likely to get a good copy, avoiding the fakes and poor quality files. However, torrent files can easily be found wherever they exist by googling the name of the song/movie/artist/whatever along with "torrent" (e.g. google Aerosmith torrent or Aerosmith Crazy torrent). And because you're usually downloading little bits of the file from many different sources, you're less likely to have security problems than if you were getting it from one or a few random sources.

If you buy the song on ITunes you can have it on your computer and burn it to CD no problem. You can get it to your MP3 player too. Just put the burned CD back in, re-rip it(you can even use ITunes), make sure it rips it into MP3 format, and you're golden. I don't really consider it cracking copy protection if you can use Apple's own program to get it back into MP3 format.

 

[ladycrow]

it couldn't hurt to check myspace and see if any of your fav bands have songs for download

 

[rydia57]

I see a new language i"m having to learn here. Different from just dl midis and wavs. They're mostly free and some are very good. Bit torrent? I've figured out 128 is the best bit rate, not too big a file, but pretty decent sounding. Some of these sights are hard to get into unless you sign up. I didn't know Walmart sold them either. Sigh, you guys really help alot!

 

[emap]

Bittorrent is a peer to peer program, so far as I know the first program made in the current style that everyone seems to use. There are a ton of them but Bittorrent is one of the better.

We use Utorrent, had less problems for us. Though it's mostly a matter of finding one compatible with everything you have on your computer.

Bittorrent is actually a company as well, they are selling movies, and TV shows, I think they are selling games and music CD's as well but not sure, we just download porn and well anime, but mostly porn.

Now as for finding the MP3's, I actually think your best option, is to go on a CD buying spree, or just buying them here and there, and converting the music to MP3. There are programs that you can get to do it, Nero can do it I beleive, that way, you have your MP3's, and you have CD's, the company won't get pissed because you bought the CD.

I think some CD's have an encryption built into them, but not that many and they can be bypassed by people who know all this stuff tons better than I do. If you happen to buy one of those, simply do a torrent search for that CD, there is always a torrent for music, movies, games, and most programs. Kinda scary the number of Vista, XP, and basically any other program you can think of torrents.

 

[Semler]

Rydia,

Are you looking for any specific artist or album? I'm sure that someone here may have it and know of a way to "let you listen to it" (Wink Wink)

 

[hellsgate]

http://www.alltheweb.com/cat=mp3&cs=iso88591&q=&rys=0&itag=crv&_sb_lang=pref

use this and ask by specifically mentioning "song title.mp3"

i've had loads of luck finding songs on private geocities/angelfire sites from this search engine. i've copied links to songs on others' sites to my site for right-click-and-save.

Jason Hauck - webmaster, Pregnancy Risk Swinging.
http://www.geocities.com/trekfan1975/

 

[Carnevil9]

You can download songs off YouTube, if you don't mind them being a little bit low-resolution. You can't do it directly, but you can do it through this website:

http://listentoyoutube.com/index.php

 

[bisexualsmoker]

You can download songs off YouTube, if you don't mind them being a little bit low-resolution. You can't do it directly, but you can do it through this website:

http://listentoyoutube.com/index.php

mp3 is always low resolution unfortunately.


You can listen to lots of things here though:

http://www.coolmusiczone.com

You can easily find and download a free audio recorder to record them as your playing them too.
You can even do it with Windows recorder if you know how to tweak it properly.