How/where do I download free music?

[geek]

i see a few people here use macs - Acquisition is an excellent app for rinsing music, simpler to use than limewire and all that torrent nonsense.

 

[Zafira]

can you not drag it into a folder on your desktop, then from there into itunes?

 

[wessie]

Clive - using bt broadband.
Got home, the album has downloaded
Will play in azureus via windows media player but will only show the album title track in Itunes (where i really want it to get it on my ipod).
How do I get it from azureus to Itunes ?
Cookie........ help

I've trained the boy to download individual mp3 tracks rather than whole albums. This way he can easily delete the duff tracks that he will never play and sharing them with mates or uploading to his phone is eased. A P2P client like Shareaza is much more user friendly for this than the Azureus torrent client.

To get track listings for an album simply look it up on allmusic.com or amazon.

If you restrict your music downloads to files that show as mp3 then, in my experiance, you will avoid files with sinister accessories...

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

Clive - using bt broadband.
Got home, the album has downloaded
Will play in azureus via windows media player but will only show the album title track in Itunes (where i really want it to get it on my ipod).
How do I get it from azureus to Itunes ?
Cookie........ help

it will be in a folder somewhere that you've downloaded it to.

move it to your main music folder - then import it into itunes.

PS this link is the best for top qual. films from aXXo : http://www.mininova.org/user/aXXo/seeds

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

I've trained the boy to download individual mp3 tracks rather than whole albums. This way he can easily delete the duff tracks that he will never play and sharing them with mates or uploading to his phone is eased. A P2P client like Shareaza is much more user friendly for this than the Azureus torrent client.

To get track listings for an album simply look it up on allmusic.com or amazon.

If you restrict your music downloads to files that show as mp3 then, in my experiance, you will avoid files with sinister accessories...

Having read a bit about Shareaza... it has a few problems in use... it is banned from some torrent trackers and some other PTP servers

The likes of U torrent and Azureus don't seem to have the same problems... I'm on a private Rock music Torrent site that only allows certain clients to be used.
I've seen more people get viruses from the likes of Gnutella Kazaa or eMule and LimeWire than off the Torrent sites

Track listings are usually included in torrent downloads... plus some come with album artwork too.

 

[PIGGLET]

Thanks for all the info and help folks
Got it into Itunes, funnily enough it seemed a bit easier to do this morning without the effects of a bottle of red
Will play with the different torrent programs now

 

[wessie]

Having read a bit about Shareaza... it has a few problems in use... it is banned from some torrent trackers and some other PTP servers

The likes of U torrent and Azureus don't seem to have the same problems... I'm on a private Rock music Torrent site that only allows certain clients to be used.
I've seen more people get viruses from the likes of Gnutella Kazaa or eMule and LimeWire than off the Torrent sites

Track listings are usually included in torrent downloads... plus some come with album artwork too.

I don't use P2P much myself - perhaps if I want a single track by an artist.

I'm currently using last.fm to listen to quite a bit of music. It's great for finding bands you have not come across before. If I like an album then I will buy it.

For torrents, mainly to get TV programmes off UKNova, I use ABC which is BitTornado with a customised UI. I like this as it does not hog resources and is recognised by all trackers. Azureus is fine, I have it installed on a laptop but I prefer ABC.

Shareaza is rubbish for torrents. It is a very good P2P client for an arts student like my son. My son will never work out how to use a torrent!

 

[silver fox]

Bearshare dead easy to use, get a lot of pop ups on the free version, am thinking of upgrading to the paid version, which offers more apparently?

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

Bearshare dead easy to use, get a lot of pop ups on the free version, am thinking of upgrading to the paid version, which offers more apparently?

No pop-ups or ads on u torrent or any torrent client i've used

No cost too

i must point out that after i download something like music.. and it's good i go out and buy the CD

 

[Clive]

using bt broadband.

In that case from http://www.btofaq.net/articles/newsgroups.html...

Point a usenet "newsreader" - you can use Outlook Express as a basic test - at your usenet server - news.btinternet.com i.e. news://news.btinternet.com

Then see what MP3 groups might be available
e.g.
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.complete_cd
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.full_albums
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1950s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s

I doubt alt.binaries.warez.uk.mp3 will be there but every week there is usually a post of the top 40 albums and singles charts.

If you have a good selection of groups - try a download of a "better" newsreader such as BNR2 (this is a very old app and has always been in beta but I have yet to find a better app for Usenet downloads )

 

[tufty1909]

Utorrent is the way to go:

I've trained the boy to download individual mp3 tracks rather than whole albums. This way he can easily delete the duff tracks that he will never play and sharing them with mates or uploading to his phone is eased. A P2P client like Shareaza is much more user friendly for this than the Azureus torrent client.

It allows u to select which tracks you want from an album before download.

 

[cookie]

although i recommended pirate bay, i realised afterwards that what i mostly do is just google the artist, with torrent afterwards eg. "springsteen torrent"

that should get his stuff from all sources. magic

 

[Mick_rw]

Bet....

I use Limewire and Its Filesharing so not really illegal

she doesn't agree with you .....

Fine

 

[Steptoe]

I've been using limewire for over 2 years.

Lately i can't download anything, and when i tried to re-register inoticed it's no longer free ???? is that right

 

[Decster]

demonoid.com

 

[macpants]

Legal?

Not quite sure where you heard that filesharing is "Not strictly illegal"

 

[cookie]

Not quite sure where you heard that filesharing is "Not strictly illegal"

rather depends on what files you're sharing.

 

[macpants]

True - but this thread is about free music. Now I know that there is much music out there which is freely available. Non copyright and stuff over a certain age (25 years I think). However and I may be completely wrong, I get the feeling that it is something newer which is sought here.

Please do not think that I am some sort of Do-Gooder. I believe that CD prices are absolutely rip-off. My concern is that the advice given on this forum is correct and would not encourage those who sincerely do not know to do something they would not otherwise have done purely out of ignorance.

Feel free to download music from any Peer to Peer network or Torrent you choose. Just be aware that 'Limewire' in particular is monitored and it (with some exceptions) is illegal.

 

[lom]

If you you want spyware, adware and all sorts of other shit, use Limewire or Bearshare.

If you want the track you're looking for in 90 seconds flat with no viruses and other crap, use Soulseek.

Torrent sites are great, but slow.

 

[Clive]

For those that might be interested and not spotted it - "1000 top albums" (whatever that means) is being posted in alt.binaries.warez.uk.mp3