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How is everybody downloading music these days?

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ace_
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Minus buying it- im a cheap ass i know.

I have frostwire, just downloaded it, and itunes. problem is, i tryed to do the sync of the library's and saving and whatnot and its not working for me. And i really just want to download individual songs and not torrent a whole album.

What is everybody doing, and if they have a suggestion to fix my problem then please tell me, i need music on my pod.
Nov 20 2010 6:23PM
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Bukkakeskitrip
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frostwire = bad choice. only p2p stuff you should be doing is through torrents (utorrent etc)

use direct dl sites. much safer, much faster. and you dont need to worry about seeders etc. mediafire, rghost etc
Nov 20 2010 7:02PM
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ace_
Posts: 3189 - Karma: 39
k. whats p2p?

and direct sites, how to i search for music? must i sign up then be able to search? or do i have to ask all the time to get what im looking for?
Nov 20 2010 7:04PM
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Bukkakeskitrip
Posts: 5677 - Karma: 95
peer to peer. summed up, it means downloading off other people. direct downloading is downloading things off file hosting websites (mediafire etc..) where people have uploaded files. peer to peer is dangerous because you never know if the file is legit or whether it has been tampered with since the file can be hosted by random people (not safe sites).

just search the name of the song (sometimes the artist as well if the track is less known) and a file hosting website name after that in google.

for example: lady gaga disco stick mediafire
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lady+gaga+disco+stick+mediafire

and the first link is what a correct mediafire link should look like. after you get familiar with using direct dl sites, music downloading is much easier
Nov 20 2010 7:14PM
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matt.s
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lately ive been going heavily on the torrents, things like complete artist discography and stuff. no intention of switching any time soon.
Nov 20 2010 7:34PM
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A.Eberhard
Posts: 4426 - Karma: 415
Utorrent + Piratebay for downloading albums.
Mediafire.com for just certain songs I want.

Nov 20 2010 7:43PM
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J-Evs
Posts: 6387 - Karma: 1,615
torrentz.com to find the torrents
or i just use mediafire and shit like that
Nov 20 2010 7:46PM
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Shredability
Posts: 2756 - Karma: 501
Free youtube to MP3 converter
Nov 20 2010 8:06PM
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A.Eberhard
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Do this if you want the shittiest quality ever.
Nov 20 2010 10:35PM
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Bukkakeskitrip
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dirpy can do 256 now
Nov 20 2010 11:21PM
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connory998
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dirpy doesn't do anything anymore.
Nov 20 2010 11:53PM
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Bukkakeskitrip
Posts: 5677 - Karma: 95
explain
Nov 21 2010 12:30AM
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Dylan_
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torrents
Nov 21 2010 12:50AM
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jibbinc.
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just google " song name + song artist + MP3" and find the one that says 3 - 7mb's.
Nov 21 2010 1:02AM
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Bukkakeskitrip
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most 320 songs will be bigger than that
Nov 21 2010 1:14AM
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-ROY-
Posts: 3633 - Karma: 1,503
can someone explain the whole torrent deal? I may be a noob but it sounds like this is the best route. Oh and i use a mac
Nov 21 2010 11:30AM
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JayBadge
Posts: 199 - Karma: 1,335
Beemp3.com
Nov 21 2010 11:54AM
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[BRI]noceros
Posts: 2319 - Karma: 40

honestly, this is the easiest way:
google the artist name, album name or song name, depending on what you're looking for, then follow that by site:mediafire.com

so it should be like this: The Ladykiller site:mediafire.com

by the way, it'll make your life easier if you have winrar, but there are zip files too.

anyway, click on the links that show up, and download. way easier then torrents or frostwire, and it's virus free

Nov 21 2010 12:00PM
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KarmaInitiative
Posts: 2028 - Karma: 174
...usually
Nov 21 2010 12:04PM
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[BRI]noceros
Posts: 2319 - Karma: 40
like 97% of the time. especially compared to frostwire and torrents
Nov 21 2010 12:12PM
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-ROY-
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nice. ill try that when i get home
Nov 21 2010 12:17PM
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tspanagel
Posts: 440 - Karma: 385
I just rip music off other peoples ipods.  If i want a song that no one has i just use windows movie maker and i record them of line. Put it on stereo mix and it sounds as good as itunes
Nov 21 2010 12:53PM
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hellomynameisjef
Posts: 5794 - Karma: 167
utorrent

i can hook you up with a demonoid invite if you want
Nov 21 2010 6:19PM
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steezemeister
Posts: 1186 - Karma: 37
yeah demonoid + transmission for osx is super legit, if people want an invite code to demonoid pm me and i'll hook you up
Nov 21 2010 7:36PM
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Mogwai.
Posts: 501 - Karma: 29
download torrents off pirate bay then use vuze
Nov 21 2010 7:40PM
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apcaipse
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Torrenting:

You don't need to know how it works, just how to use it.
The easiest way is to download utorrent, here: http://www.utorrent.com/.
Then, if you need anything, go to thepiratebay.org and search for it. Usually it will be there. If you're sketched out about something, check the comments. There's one catch, that's seeding. The up arrows next to the thing you want to download is how many people are seeding it. The more seeding, the more trustworthy it is and the faster it will DL.

Direct download:
To directly download a specific song, I use beemp3.com. For whole albums, I go to google.com and search site:mediafire.com (artist name here) (album name here). To find trustworthy links, look at the sizes of all the downloads, the most common size is most likely the safest.

More sites to use the direct download method with, megaupload, hotfile, 4shared, and netload.



Enjoy getting shit for free.

Nov 21 2010 9:31PM
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assface
Posts: 4319 - Karma: 2,031
type in "site:mediafire" after the artist or album, so google searches only mediafire. works soooo well.

e.g.:
Goillaz plastic beach site:mediafire.com

enjoy!
Nov 21 2010 10:36PM
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Rajna
Posts: 3824 - Karma: 90
Piratebay or Beatport... paying for music sucks but sometimes it's essential
Nov 22 2010 3:40AM
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[BRI]noceros
Posts: 2319 - Karma: 40
haha i wrote that a few posts up...but seriously, this is by far the easiest and best way
Nov 22 2010 6:06AM
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assface
Posts: 4319 - Karma: 2,031
ah i missed that
Nov 22 2010 8:23PM
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NickSki.
Posts: 2009 - Karma: 61
I get 5 of those a month. Dont really mean anything they just need to say that for legal reasons
Nov 22 2010 8:41PM
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T-Holt
Posts: 5020 - Karma: 639
Basically what I do.
Nov 22 2010 8:57PM
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.jersey
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threads for when im on a downloading binge
Nov 22 2010 9:10PM
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p.hawks
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pandorajam
auto downloads music from pandora

sometimes youtube to mp3 in HQ mode, doesnt sound that shitty yet

sometimes its just free, and other than that mediafire
Nov 22 2010 10:34PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Your ISP is blackmailing you?
Nov 22 2010 11:56PM
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emryium
Posts: 152 - Karma: 10
Mostly legal, every now and then youtube when I don't feel like paying. The way I see it, a lot of the music I buy comes from small guys so mine as well help them out a little, small artists don't make bank anymore.
Nov 23 2010 12:11AM
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50in07
Posts: 3070 - Karma: 1,471
Legally. Unless I can't find it. In that case I'll go to mediafire.
Nov 23 2010 1:12AM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,012
google the song name and mediafire like everyone else said
Nov 23 2010 2:22PM
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tuna.
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ive had similar experiences in the wsu dorms. almost weekly we'll have meetings where they threaten us and say they're monitoring our bandwidth and will expel us if we download any music illegally. its pretty funny actually, mostly because kids dont realize you have to download albums upon albums at a time to change the bandwidth in a dorm that has hundreds of kids online at a time.
Nov 23 2010 4:56PM
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newschooler7
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archive.org has just about every jambands shows uploaded to it from most nights up there. and it's all free and legal, and its good music. def worth checking out
Nov 23 2010 10:39PM
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Bobbum~Man
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Threads for later
Nov 24 2010 11:04AM
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vauban08
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70 to 90 cent for a single song @ amazon or itunes do seem good value to me. If you're unable to buy songs, it's probably due to the fact that you are not satisfied with 20 or 30 new songs each month, but need to download every discography of every artist you come across. That's not listening to music imo, that's silly consumerist impulse.

There might be a point about not supporting certain major labels (WMG for example, because of their muting of youtube videos), but concerning any other artist/label: for god's sake, BUY IT!
Nov 24 2010 11:18AM
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disastertourism
Posts: 2402 - Karma: 135

I use zamzar, mainly because I don't have my own computer at the moment and it's the only thing that allows me to download at the library/college

if you can find it on youtube you can download in on there, you can also download videos to avi and dvd and stuff like that.

http://zamzar.com/url

Nov 26 2010 11:20AM
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mike_monty
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Hey, for cheap quality tunes:

1. Sign up for Napster ($10/month). The quality is great, no viruses, huge library.

2. Then buy Protected Music Converter ($20). http://www.wma-mp3.com/protected-music-converter.html

When you download songs from Napster they are protected. If you want to burn a protected song to ipod or CD you'll need to pay for it unless you run it through the converter. So basically for $20 up front and $10 a month you have unlimited full album downloads. Download tracks from Napster, then batch convert the folder through PM Converter.

Heads up, this worked fine on my old computer, but now with Windows 7 the final mp3 sometimes is sped up and skippy in sections. Not sure why, usually just run the track through again and it's fine.

Cheers.
Nov 26 2010 1:09PM
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assface
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or pay nothing and use mediafire with a good free virus program
Nov 27 2010 1:28AM
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Domuk
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I use https://www.mp3juices3.cc to download music these days.
Feb 10 2021 2:52AM
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.nasty
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Speaking of torrents, does anyone have an alternative to what.cd they use? What.cd was a great invite only torrent site years ago that had literally everything but it got shut down.
Feb 13 2021 1:47PM
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P3t3r
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.nastySpeaking of torrents, does anyone have an alternative to what.cd they use? What.cd was a great invite only torrent site years ago that had literally everything but it got shut down.


Agreed.
The new one is called redacted.ch - I don't have any invites at the moment but if I do I'll let you know!
Feb 17 2021 12:24PM
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