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Legit Music Downloads?

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Robb

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Active on "the net" for over twelve years now, big fan of music my whole life....................and never, ever legitimately bought/downloaded a song.:roll: Did Napster when it was "ol school," Bearshare for awhile, and active on LimeWire for the past couple of years.

But after the last BS I got off LW, I decided it was time to go legit.

Problem is, I am apparently WAY behind the times on legal downloads, and I have no idea where to even begin to look. Where are the legal music downloads?

I am looking for:
1) well duh, cheap
2) HUGE range of music.........not interested in any "pop" music, and my taste range is all over the place
3) well respected, ad BS free
4) for wav files if anyone is offering them..........or is everything mp3 these days?

Thanks




(oh, and the first person that turns this into a p2p vs legit dl debate, should be instantly banned. these debates already exist, this thread isn't it)
 
I've used iTunes. But only because I've got iTunes gift cards. But it works well. Lots of different music.

Not to hijack, but does anybody know why LimeWire would suddenly not return any results when you search for songs? Even searches for popular music returns zero hits...
 
The problem with legal music downloads is that everyone thinks 128kbps encoding is good enough. Once in a great while you'll find some indi site that has flac downloads availalbe. Unfortunately, those of us who know the truth know that a 128kbps mp3 still contains digital artifacts that sound horrible on high end stereos. As a result, I just buy the CD's, and rip my own high quality VBR mp3's. Yes it requires more room, and a little work, but hard drives are cheap these days, I'm sitting on nearly 2 TB of storage, and haven't even noticed the pitiful amount it cost to purchase it spread out over a couple of years.
 
Soon (any day now) major retailers like Amazon and few others are going to start selling songs without the annoying "protections". It is called DRM Free music. I am waiting patiently for the day when I can buy just one song on an album at at least 256kbps or higher. I hate propriotary software and music formats. I want wav or mp3s!
 
BearShare, and limewire killed the last computers. LUCKELIE (sp) we were able to save the one with limewire on it. NEVER AGAIN WILL I NOT PAY FOR MUSIC.
 
i download songs off of limewire, and put them in iTunes and listen to the songs there

Edit: i havnt had a problem with limewire, except for one, but i fixed it
 
M715ForLife said:
BearShare, and limewire killed the last computers. LUCKELIE (sp) we were able to save the one with limewire on it. NEVER AGAIN WILL I NOT PAY FOR MUSIC.
Click to expand...

File sharing programs don't "kill" computers...

Morons who click on the shiney shiney warez they downloaded and don't run virus protection, kill computers...
 
I am going to be home sick most of the day tomorrow, so I am going to get my music updated and downloaded.

I will be looking into the advice given so far, and just bumping this for anymore.

Thanks

edit: and legalsounds.com mentioned above has some stuff I am interested in for cheap, and at 192kbps. I have noticed the sound quality difference when down at 128, but is 192 okay for normal music on normal stereos?
 
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