Music Downloads

[Lisa]

What is the best site for music downloads regarding safety, selection and
cost? The I look at, the more confused I get.

 

[chicagofan]

What is the best site for music downloads regarding safety, selection and
cost? The I look at, the more confused I get.

I think it depends more on which media player *you* like to use. Most of
the sites that meet your criteria [and charge .99 a track], are relatively
the same. [Someone correct me if the Real and MSN prices are different.]

I use MusicMatch.com because I like their player better than WMP. Some like
Real.com because *they* feel it has more choices and they like RealPlayer.
Many others are satisfied with WMP [whatever version came with their PC],
and use MSN.com {I'm guessing}. I'd check them all out.

Someone else will have to tell you about the free sites. I stick with the
ones mentioned above.
bj

 

[kitekrazy]

What is the best site for music downloads regarding safety, selection
and cost? The I look at, the more confused I get.

I think it depends more on which media player *you* like to use. Most
of the sites that meet your criteria [and charge .99 a track], are
relatively the same. [Someone correct me if the Real and MSN prices are
different.]

I use MusicMatch.com because I like their player better than WMP. Some
like Real.com because *they* feel it has more choices and they like
RealPlayer. Many others are satisfied with WMP [whatever version came
with their PC], and use MSN.com {I'm guessing}. I'd check them all
out.

Someone else will have to tell you about the free sites. I stick with
the ones mentioned above.
bj

I use iTunes more than any of them. But WMP gives you access to a lot
of them.

 

[Guest]

I won't use either MSN (anymore) or iTunes because the bitrates are far too
low to be acceptable to me.

I had a lot of music encoded at 192 kbps but now use 400+ kbps, the
difference is very apparent and for me very important in terms of streaming
to hi-fi systems. I now use Ogg compression almost entirely and with Winamp.
Much as I originally liked WMP 10 I find it still too awkard to use.

Three sites you might like to consider:

www.audiolunchbox.com - an evergrowing range of musicians, in terms of both
genre and exposure. Recorded at 192 kbps mp3 & Q6 level Ogg.

www.archive.org (under Audio) - for free, legal live shows. You'll find
innumerable Grateful Dead shows, Little Feat, Warren Zevon and some Jefferson
Starship amongst many, many others. They offer choices of mp3, Ogg, Shorten &
FLAC as well as streaming. Try downloading either Shorten or FLAC files as
they are lossless compressions, burn to CD and then if you want also encode
for your PC to save space.

Also www.livedownloads.com for paid for live downloads.

I know that's not quite what you were asking but I thought you might like to
know.

Steve

 

[Galley]

What is the best site for music downloads regarding safety, selection and
cost? The I look at, the more confused I get.

The RealPlayer Music Store offers 192Kbps AAC files that will play natively on
PalmOS 5 devices, and will transfer without any loss of quality on iPods. They
will also transfer to dozens of other players.
http://musicstore.real.com/music_store/home

Devices: http://music.guide.real.com/musicstoredevices

 

[Guest]

Yahoo! Music Unlimited: More than 1 million songs. Listen, share, download

http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/?ovchn=GGL&ovcpn=YMU&ovcrn=yahoo+music+downloads&ovtac=PPC

 

[Guest]

Hi Byte I've tried going your link here but if I read it right it is only for
american citizens.
wendy