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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Frank Gallagher on November 29, 2004, 07:09:00 pm

Title: Music Downloading
Post by: Frank Gallagher on November 29, 2004, 07:09:00 pm
Which is the best "legal" music downloading site?
 
 Cheers.
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 29, 2004, 07:14:00 pm
www.emusic.com (http://www.emusic.com)    :D    as long as your not looking for the latest and greatest major label hits....
 
 i can send you a trial membership of 50 downloads to  try it out.
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: chaz on November 29, 2004, 09:38:00 pm
Speaking of which, can anyone recommend some good bit torrent sites?  It seems like every time i see something good it'll take 152 hours to download the content.
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on November 29, 2004, 10:06:00 pm
I'm a bit pissed at Itunes, having discovered how difficult they make it to move music from one computer to another, even if they're both your computer -- and thus perfectly legal.  Fuck that.  And plus, they charge almost as much as you would have to pay for a CD, even though it costs way less to distribute music that way.
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: godsshoeshine on November 29, 2004, 11:08:00 pm
chaz, indietorrents is the best by a mile for music. i think you have to get lucky to get registered, though
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: poorlulu on November 29, 2004, 11:13:00 pm
the most succesful site is itunes.com
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: chaz on November 29, 2004, 11:34:00 pm
Thank you God's Shoeshine!!!
 Which client do you use???
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: lionforce5 on November 30, 2004, 02:07:00 am
Doctor Doom.  I used to feel the same way about itunes.  But then a friend of mine sang me a hymn (http://hymn-project.org/) and now all is well.
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: dtqjr on November 30, 2004, 03:47:00 am
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Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  chaz, indietorrents is the best by a mile for music. i think you have to get lucky to get registered, though
Thanks for the site although I'm not sure about having any difficulties signing up because I registered and now I'm in.
 
 For chaz, I've been using BitTornado (www.bittornado.com) for a year now and its worked well for me.  A lot of people like Azureus but I've never had success installing it (probably for lack of effort).
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: redsock on November 30, 2004, 11:06:00 am
I second indie torrents. You just have to wait till they clear off older inactive members before you can sign up. There is so much there, it is probably a good thing you can only get 2 a day as a newbie. And oink.me.uk is pretty good too, with no real restrictions.
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: lionforce5 on November 30, 2004, 02:25:00 pm
I was signed up with indie torrents, but had to go inactive because they don't use standard ports for sharing, and I don't have control over the router so I don't have the ability to change those.
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: eltee on November 30, 2004, 02:49:00 pm
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Originally posted by chaz:
  Speaking of which, can anyone recommend some good bit torrent sites?  It seems like every time i see something good it'll take 152 hours to download the content.
what about www.easytree.org? (http://www.easytree.org?)
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: godsshoeshine on November 30, 2004, 07:32:00 pm
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Originally posted by chaz:
  Thank you God's Shoeshine!!!
 Which client do you use???
tomato torrent. but i'm on a mac
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 01, 2004, 04:09:00 am
If you're looking for live stuff, bt.etree.org and www.archive.org (http://www.archive.org) are great.
Title: Re: Music Downloading
Post by: TheWaz on December 03, 2004, 04:35:00 pm
ill have to try that indie torrent... i have had absolutely no luck finding any indie on  the torrent sites i know of.  and my dc++ stopped working.. guess ill be sticking with torrents form now on then.