Music Downloading -- The LEGAL Kind

[ssmith1627]

Hey guys, where do most of you download music ? (for those who participate in such activities)

I found Yahoo music but you have to install their software to be able to do it. I can't do that on my company laptop.

I'm dying to get my hands on that Eagles song -- Please Come Home for Christmas. Can't find it on any of the Christmas CD's in the stores.

Thanks,
Steve

[Uncle Cracker]

I think most of the legit download services now use proprietary plug-in software. This lets them maintain two-way contact and control over what you do with the music, through the use of "permissions".

[ssmith1627]

Makes sense. I'll just wait and download tonight from home where I can install their jukebox software.

Steve

[LinuxRandal]

Being a Linux user, I haven't found a drm company that thinks of us. I looked at Amazon the other day as I was looking for what album a song was on, and it was available from them in mp3 format. I started to click though, to see the requirements, and found out they don't require you to download the software, they also have a just the song option.

You might check that out.

[dkerfoot]

Pretty Much anything but iTunes.

I try to avoid any company more monopolistic than Microsoft.

[gsmittle]

My top three: iTunes, iTunes, and iTunes.

g.

[Alex Franke]

This site has a bunch of free (and excellent) recordings of baroque, classical, romantic era composers (full symphonies, sonatas, preludes -- even a requiem!) available for download.

Linky: TEMPUS Collection (can be slow)

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sound/list (hit or miss quality/performance)

[Ed62]

I don't download music, but I make mp3s from my CD collection. My wife recently installed iTunes, and she bought several songs using it. It's simple enough even for me to use!

Ed

[leehljp]

If you are not into iTunes, remember this: It is the iTunes maker that is THE ONE that started pushing for the legal download of DRM FREE music that could go multi-platform. MS jumped on the bandwagon only after EMI said that they were considering and then did start offering DRM free downloads.

MS never developed a mulit-platform DRM music, MS ONLY. Apple DID develop a Windows version of iTunes, and their push for DRM free music means that they are trying to open music to multi- computer platform and multi-music device. Not so with MS or most music conglomerates.

One of the reasons that Apple is so hated by Universal is because Universal has been adamant that downloads be done in $10 - $15 "albums" instead of 99 cent singles. They also are adamant on price increases. They pulled out of discussions with Apple because Apple would not raise the prices to consumers demanded by Universal. I have never heard of a monopoly fight for a consumer in lower prices in this manner - and in which the product would to the benefit even the competitors as much as the consumer.

MS certainly is not fighting for the consumer like Apple is. Universal started offering the DRM free 99 cent singles on Amazon to break Apple's grip. BUT they will certainly raise the price and demand "album" purchase once the grip is broken. It is stupid of Universal to condemn Apple for holding to singles and 99 cents and then offering the same on Amazon so that they can raise the price once the grip is broken.

If you dislike Apple, remember the alternative - albums only or at least well over a dollar for singles with DRM for new releases. The big music conglomerates are the ones that DEMANDED the DRMs in the first place (with strong support from MS), not Apple.

How can one be so anti-one company when that company is trying to open an archaic industry for the price and quality benefit of the consumer AND its computer/music device competitors?

[cork58]

I just checked Napster and there must be a hundred artist's with that song! You might try their 7 day free trial. Then try to find which one you want.

[LinuxRandal]

If you are not into iTunes, remember this: It is the iTunes maker that is THE ONE that started pushing for the legal download of DRM FREE music that could go multi-platform.

Uhm, two or BIplatform. I have yet to see them be truely multiplatform and release it for BSD (what their OS is now based on) or Linux.

[leehljp]

Uhm, two or BIplatform. I have yet to see them be truely multiplatform and release it for BSD (what their OS is now based on) or Linux.

You are RIGHT! BiPlatform it is - for their software. But their aim is for music to be DRM free so that any platform and device can use the music as the consumer sees fit. Of course this is for PURCHASED and LEGAL music.