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What do use for downloading Music
#259878 05/10/09 04:41 PM
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I'm wondering what to use as quite a few people who were using either Limewire or U torrent have told me both of those sites are now filled with viruses? If so were is everyone down loading from now.Thanks for any help.


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Stereoguy99 #259879 05/10/09 04:47 PM
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Lots of people here pay for their music. Full fidelity, no risk of viruses. Once you leave the pay model, you take your chances.


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I know my family hits the usual resources, iTunes, bonfire(futureshop), Puretracks etc. I tend to not download at all and prefer to buy cd's until higher bitrate downloads are more common.


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Stereoguy99 #259882 05/10/09 06:10 PM
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I mostly use a program called: AudialsOne

Here’s a nice short review w/screenshots: Review

If your interested in my opinion I started this thread but it‘s a bit long: My Opinion

This won’t let you target specific albums the way a torrent would but for sheer volume of tracks it finds nothing beats it. I have over 25,000 mp3 from this and have pretty much turned it off for now. Some tracks are duplicates but you can limit that by using tight search parameters and it will weed them out for you. You can control the quality of what it downloads like say only 320bit mp3s but that will limit what’s available.

AFAIK this program is 100% legal even in the USA. Some people may still feel it’s stealing but IMO it’s no more stealing than downloading TV shows to your DVR. And at least for me the reality is that my CD purchases have increased from about 1/month to over 10/month as I can now sample whole songs and sometimes whole CDs w/o the worry that I might be buying something I don’t like.

Might not be what you are looking for but I think it’s worth the free demo.

Cheers,
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grunt #259889 05/10/09 07:12 PM
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My post was not meant as a judgement/comment on piracy. I am on the fence on the whole topic since I think that the music industry is ripping off the majority of artists in the first place.

Dean, what does Audials use as a source. I know you talked/wrote about internet radio. Does it convert audio streams back into music files? I would love to find a way to sample more music before I buy, but I don't particularly like the idea of continually risking infection from downloads.

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And at least for me the reality is that my CD purchases have increased from about 1/month to over 10/month as I can now sample whole songs and sometimes whole CDs w/o the worry that I might be buying something I don’t like.

I have heard this more than once. I suspect that it would affect me the same way.

From my perspective, I would love to start sampling indy music more and paying artists directly for the stuff I decide to keep.


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fredk #259903 05/10/09 10:38 PM
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All the music I download comes from Amazon's mp3 service.


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fredk #259907 05/10/09 11:05 PM
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Sorry Fred my comment wasn’t directed at you but just the audio community in general. And I’m glad it came up because I found I should amend what I said before:

To avoid hijacking and update my old thread I’ll answer your questions here

http://www.axiomaudio.com/boards/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=259906#Post259906


 Originally Posted By: Fredk

I have heard this more than once. I suspect that it would affect me the same way.

From my perspective, I would love to start sampling indy music more and paying artists directly for the stuff I decide to keep.


My biggest problem with buying CDs especially from groups I hadn’t really heard was that I would end up not liking it. RadioTracker has gone a long way to eliminating this fear. It’s also hugely expanded the types of music I’ve been exposed to and now like.

Just beware, the AudialsOne software only cost me 60 USD but the CDs I’ve bought because of it easily runs me over 600 USD.

According to the site you can buy RadioTracker separately from the AudialOne bundle:

http://shop.audials.com/buynow_web.php?tag=RadiotrackerPremium

If nothing else it’s worth the free demo.

Cheers,
Dean


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grunt #259921 05/11/09 03:47 AM
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It would be nice if sites like Amazon gave us more than a 30 second snippet from a song...often you can't really get a sense of the music from such a small segment. I often use Youtube to find out more from different artists before I buy something.


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Adrian #259942 05/11/09 01:13 PM
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 Originally Posted By: Adrian
It would be nice if sites like Amazon gave us more than a 30 second snippet from a song...often you can't really get a sense of the music from such a small segment. I often use Youtube to find out more from different artists before I buy something.
Guy at work turned me on to this service (stream-only, no downloading, but it solves your 30-second clip issue), which seems pretty good, but after reading the terms of service, it's very clear you should NEVER upload ANYTHING to it. It basically says anything you upload, they're allowed to irrevocably use and/or sub-license at no cost to them and if royalties or anything need be paid to 3rd parties as a result, you're on the hook for that. Great for listening. You can make playlists, and if you go to individual track info, they'll recommend things you may not have heard before. Anywho, here's the link: http://grooveshark.com

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Scott64 #259981 05/11/09 04:57 PM
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I pay for my music. 256kbs iTunes Plus or Amazon MP3's for me.

I have run into a few bad tracks on Amazon though - ones where the snippet sounded ok but the full file had disappointing SQ. I don't remember ever being disappointed with an iTunes+ file. Regular iTunes (128kbs) yes, but not +. And there's no DRM with an iTunes+ file, just like Amazon.

I like Pandora too for streaming. It's worth the yearly-subscription price, IMHO.

I wouldn't touch Limewire or any P2P service for music these days. Not only is downloading most (not all) music illegal but there are problems with both virii and music-bombs. A music-bomb being a music file where it starts fine but then then midway through the file it'll just flip to horrible loud screeching sounds designed to hurt your hears or your equipment. Particularly nefarious ones will have the music encoded at a very low volume so that you turn up it up nice and loud. Then blast you with super-loud encoded screeching. Not cool.

I realize it's a debatable thing. If you're going to use a P2P service to get these files, just be really careful with whatever you download.


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