How to download music?

me ^ | 6/22/08 | umgud

[umgud]

Old school Freeper needs tech help in downloading music. I've searched the net and can't find my answers.

[KevinB]

Both Windows Media player and iTunes will easily burn standard audio CDs from MP3s.

Yes, but if you're an audiophile you won't be very happy with the quality after the "decompression."

[joebob256]

There are things that you need to consider such as DRM. A fairly decent review site that details some of the things to consider and legal methods of downloading music is MusicDownloadFinder.com .

[aft_lizard]

He still doesnt need is it if all he is doing is downloading music and burning discs, no need in downloading extra software.

[antiRepublicrat]

Slight correction, some are protected, some are not. All the non-protected songs are under the “iTunes Plus” button, and those songs are just about CD quality. But yes, with iTunes just download, make a playlist of songs with few enough to fit on a CD (protected or not, both work), put in a disk and hit the burn button.

[MichiganMan]

Go to Amazon.  Really.  Here's the URL:

Amazon MP3

The songs are cheap, whole albums are cheaper, and they have a wide selection of music, all DRM free.  Itunes has a good selection to be sure, and equally good prices, but their songs come wrapped in their own proprietary format, aka DRM.  You can't use them in players that don't support that format and there are restrictions in how you can copy them, even if you're the only person that ever uses it.  Amazon sells their tunes in MP3 format. MP3's you can copy and play in any player, restriction free. 

As other's have said, you can burn Itune music files to CD and re-rip them to MP3, but that inevitably results in a loss of quality. Think of the effect you get when you copy a copy.  

I know that you are planning to burn them directly to CD upon download, so this difference is currently a moot issue.  But in the future (or now if your car stereo plays MP3) you might want the freedom that Apple's proprietary format denies. 

[KoRn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29

My favorite client is Azureus(now known as something else).

Enjoy!

[dangerdoc]

If you have the MP3s there are many programs which will automaticaly burn them to CD in CD format.

I think Vista has it built in. XP may have it built in also. I strongly suspect that it is built into Macs also.

If you go to download.com, I’m sure that there are free alternatives. I’ve had at least one such program included with every computer I’ve purchased for the last 6 or 8 years.

I feel I’m repeating myself. Is your question answered?

Thinking about it, I think you can download Itunes even if you don’t have an Ipod. It will automatically import your MP3s. You can then make a playlist and there is a button on the screen to burn to CD.

[potlatch]

Thanks papasmurf, I've been doing this for some time. I'll post a couple of WAV file songs that are low file size.

459KB Willie Nelson;
ON THE ROAD AGAIN

627KB Johnny Mathis;
MY FAVORITE THINGS

[rabscuttle385]

He still doesnt need is it if all he is doing is downloading music and burning discs, no need in downloading extra software.

And now we know how the abomination that is Internet Explorer got entrenched and destroyed Netscape.

I prefer iTunes, personally, because it works with Apple's online store and an iPod that I bought a few years back. Literally, it just works. Point, click, download, burn to CD or transfer to iPod.

[aruanan]

My personal recommendation is to avoid the protected iTunes. They apparently embed links and ping back to the server if you use them on a PC connected to the internet (when you play them).

Or you just burn a whole CD's worth of them and reimport them and they'll work anytime, anywhere, on anything.

[aruanan]

True but you have to have the iTunes player (which is free of course) to play them from what I can tell. They didn’t play on my XP machine nor my Vista machine when I got them (friend had an account so I reimbursed him).

If you download them from the iTunes store, you're downloading them on a machine that has iTunes. If you download their locked ACC files and then burn a CD, the AIFF files on that CD can be reimported on any machine, converted to MP3s and played by anything without a problem.

[aruanan]

Yeah I’m actually going to put much of my CD collection into MP3 because I’ve damaged a dozen CD’s or so carrying them over the years.

If you find a Game Crazy with the guys who know what they're doing, they can buff your CDs and DVDs and make them playable (unless the metal has been damaged or the plastic is cracked). The buffers they use are excellent. They cost about $1000 but if you get a membership for $20/yr to Game Crazy in some places they'll give you 5 five-buff cards, otherwise it's $1.50 per buff or a 5-buff card for $5.00.

[aruanan]

But since I didn’t have an account myself aren’t the locked ones (admittedly they unlock in your scenario) registered only to my friend (who I reimubursed)? Of course they would only report if they actually played I think.

But once they're converted to AIFF by burning them onto a CD and reimported as MP3, they don't carry any registration information. I wasn't able to play on PSP a bunch of stuff I bought from the iTunes store so I just burned the CD, imported it as high quality MP3s, and then dragged and dropped them into the PSP music folder. Problem solved.

[antiRepublicrat]

I don’t wown an MP3 and want the music on CD’s.

iTunes is AAC, better quality than MP3 for the size. But iTunes and other programs will burn regular CDs, converting your AAC/MP3 files to CD format on the fly.

[antiRepublicrat]

Oh and ignore the itunes and apple people if you own a pc, they dont realize that you do not need that hunk of software jamming your system

I've used pretty much every popular media player/organizer out there since before MP3s (CD player app in the early 90s), and I settled on iTunes as the best long before I ever got a Mac.

[antiRepublicrat]

as Potlatch says, wav’s are very small.

I may not know the whole story here, but that doesn't sound right. WAVs are uncompressed audio. If the WAV of a song is small, it's because the quality is very low or you really have an MP3 with a WAV file extension.