Last year I found a page on Lycos where I could search and download songs for free. It doesn’t seem to be there anymore and I want to get some new music for my mp3 player for my workouts. I honestly don’t know much about downloading stuff and when I search the web I’m nervous that all these “free” sites are scams.
Is it still possible to download music for free or did the whole napster thing change that?
Any suggestions for me or sites I should check out? Thanks!
go to www.download.com and search for “Limewire”. This is a file sharing program. Works well. Have been using it for several years w/o any problems. Great for free porn, too. Oh sorry, you were looking for music.
[quote]Beowolf wrote:
Under sharing rights, it’s still technically legal.[/quote]
No, it’s not. It’s never been legal to rip music from a CD and give it to someone else.
There are few exceptions to the rule. Music released directly by the bands (you’ll only see whole albums if it’s an unsigned band or someone trying to make a ‘statement’) and snippets for advertisement purposes are the only things you’ll see on websites.
Never download from a website if you’re interested in ‘padding’ your music collection. There are other ways to go about it while being discreet, and there are ways to avoid detection all together.
Something else to consider is borrowing CD’s from friends and coworkers and checking out your local library. I got a lot of music this way, plus my gf is severe music hound.
I just rip em to my harddrive and then I can add em to my mp3 with the search function. Just an additional alternative for ya.
[quote]Jillybop wrote:
Last year I found a page on Lycos where I could search and download songs for free. It doesn’t seem to be there anymore and I want to get some new music for my mp3 player for my workouts. I honestly don’t know much about downloading stuff and when I search the web I’m nervous that all these “free” sites are scams.
Is it still possible to download music for free or did the whole napster thing change that?
Any suggestions for me or sites I should check out? Thanks!
(I feel very old and clueless now…)
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I work for the technology services department of my college. We have a constant stream of students whose computers “are running super slow.” The first thing I always check when these kids come in is whether or not they have limewire installed. All of the newest versions of limewire have severe and sometimes crippling amounts of spyware bundled with them. And, to be frank, they simply do not work as well as they used to.
Torrents are really the way to go. Go to www.about.com and search for their article on torrenting. They explain it with much greater eloquence than I ever could.
Do NOT download limewire.You will open yourself to a world of computing pain.
I have heard good things about soulseek but have never personally used it.
[quote]Crispyknight wrote:
The easiest, legal, and non-scummy way of doing it is paying for the music. Pay a buck a song from iTunes, or 8 bucks for a CD from BMG. [/quote]
Along these lines, I have ordered several used CDs on Amazon. The CDs have always been in almost new condition and arrive in about 2 days. They are usually dirt cheap. Shipping is usually more expensive than the cd, yet it still comes out to less than $5-$6 all-in for the cd.