Of course FReepers will answer your question. But they might have a little fun with it, too.
I haven't downloaded any music for several years because it used to bring more viruses than music to me, but now there are sites that are safe to download from. I don't mind paying to create the cd's I want.
I had hoped to be able to download to a playlist on my hard drive, then burn the songs to my CD's.
My current problem is that all these download sites sell their downloads in MP3 format. I don't have an MP3 and really just want to put the music on CD's. These sites don't seem to have another option.
What do I do?
My personal advice: grab a copy of iTunes from Apple (yes, it's free!). Download songs at 99 cents apiece. Create a playlist in iTunes, and then burn the playlist to CD. Play the CD in your car, and be happy.
Apple iTunes Store downloads are in DRM-protected AAC format, but you can easily burn them to CD, then rip them back into MP3 format sans the DRM.
Also, ShadowAce, Tech ping!
Download the MP3’s and burn them to an audio CD
Of course FReepers will answer your question. But they might have a little fun with it, too.
If your car audio system is new enough, you may find if plays MP3's just fine. If so, you can burn a boat-load of MP3s on a single CD (depending on MP3 quality).
It's easy to install and you can find every song you'll ever want to hear. Be careful. The RIAA has already successfully sued 20,000 people for illegal downloading.
I download music that I already own on CD. Many of the CDs I own were records that I had previously purchased on LP. So I paid for most of my music twice. Doesn't matter. In the eyes of the RIAA, I am taking food from the mouths of rock stars by downloading music I've already purchased in other formats.
You can burn MP3 to CD in WMA format BUT it won’t usually play on another computer. It does work well in a CD Player though :>} Most CD players including automobile, household, or portable will play them. Only computers recognize the copyright coding.
To download any music from the internet, you'll need a CD player that can play MP3 format. I'm pretty certain there's no other way. Most CD (and DVD) players made in the last 5 years will play MP3.
What do I do?
Best place to download music easily is walmart.com. Cheapest too.
However careful because most car cd players can’t run MP3’s, that is the difficulty in downloading music for Audio Cd’s. Or at least that has been my trouble.
If anyone knows a converter from MP3 to audio cd file extension, let me know.
You can try g2p.
Pretty much, it does a Google search on audio files on the web, mostly from individuals, and finds a large selection.
I think it is actually fairly legal.
iTunes is the best (and now outsells CD’s!):
This is for legal music downloads...can’t help you with illegal downloading. I don’t do theft.
I have 689 MB (722,890,752 bytes), 894 music files in my computer. I mostly download WAV files.
Contrary to what most people think, they are a “fraction” of the size of MP3’s and sound just as good and I have quite a few posted on my Profile page.
I find what I want and save to my Windows Media player, which adds them to my Music Folder.
Also have many megs more on a website.
You need a CD burner, make up a list of songs and burn to CD or DVD.
There are search engine on the web where you can find tons of free downloads.
I’m not sure what the question is.
Where is the easiest place to download legal music? Answer Itunes.
Where do I download music that will play directly on a non MP3 compatable CD player? Answer nowhere, trick question, read below.
How do I get my legally downloaded music into CD format? If your computer had a CD burner and you are using Itunes, just make a playlist and tell it to burn a CD. Itunes will take those songs convert them into CD compatible files and build a CD that will play in virtually any CD player.
If you want to make a CD from MP3s that you currently have, there are multiple programs that will do so, some of them are free. I use programs that I purchased such as Roxio or NERO but there are many options out there.
If you narrow down your question or need speficics post again, there are many people here that can help you.
Does you truck have a USB port? IF yes, you need to read up on it a little. Does your CD player play mp3s? Some do. As far as downloading tunes goes, I hear pirates hang out in the bay, pirate bay.
Go to Amazon and download DRM free tracks that are cheap.
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 if you have Windows. Just download your tunes at Amazon.com, and burn using windows media player. Easy as pie.
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.