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Post by puggyd on Oct 14, 2003 16:20:24 GMT -5
Ok, I know this is pretty much illegal, but where do y'all download MP3s? Napster is long gone, and Kazaa has crap for selection now that everything is clogged up with dummy files. So what are we supposed to do to hear new artists? I never liked LimeWire, and I've heard SoulSeek has a good selection for those who listen to more indie type stuff, but I can't figure out how to get it to work. Anyone have any suggestions?
--PuggyD
Damn the man, save the Empire!
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Post by neutral on Oct 15, 2003 8:46:40 GMT -5
DC++ for the more obscure, and Morpheus or Kazaa otherwise.
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Post by FiveMileSmile on Oct 15, 2003 9:24:22 GMT -5
I hear from someone who isn't me (because I don't condone these sort of things, honest) that Kazaa Lite is the way to go.
You've just got to be careful what you download.
Apparently.
- Rich
Arrrrrrrr!!! Peices of Eight!!!
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Post by Head Mutant on Oct 15, 2003 10:19:35 GMT -5
Kazaa Lite has some nifty options to keep you out of trouble. It has an IP blocker (sort of like Peer Guardian) that uploads and blocks RIAA people. But you'd also really need to set your options so you're not a supernode, that you don't share files, set your upload files at 0, and keep your shared folder empty or very skimpy.
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Post by Head Mutant on Oct 15, 2003 10:20:42 GMT -5
For the record, I do download music, but typically it's to search for tracks that I can't get anywhere else, even on a CD (for instance, yesterday I finally obtained all of the musical songs from Joe's Apartment).
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Post by dajaymann on Oct 15, 2003 10:30:22 GMT -5
Also for the record: I download songs that my band and I (which is still in the very early stages) can learn to play live. Which is illegal. And then, technically, I believe that it's illegal for us to play them live. See, it's just a big circle of illegality for me! So remember, two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do! I have no idea what I'm doing right now...
And yes, so far I use Kazaa. Of course, the songs I look for are pretty well known, so it's always good to go.
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Post by DocD83 on Oct 16, 2003 16:29:31 GMT -5
My filesharing volume is nil right now (full hard drive), so my info might be out of date, but: I used WinMX. It's ok, you can get a lot of good stuff off it. Since the lawsuits started I've been thinking of switching to a filesharing program that's anonymous. The folks at Penny Arcade listed out 4 or 5 such programs, but I only kept this one link (I'm sure the others are still on the newspost): www.projectelf.com/WhatIs.htmlI'm not sure if I trust Kazaa Lite. It is after all what the RIAA used when tracking people to sue, according to that article I posted a while back. ETA: I used mine mainly to download tv shows. I don't know if there would be a difference with MP3s. |
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Post by FiveMileSmile on Oct 22, 2003 7:53:06 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I trust Kazaa Lite. It is after all what the RIAA used when tracking people to sue, according to that article I posted a while back. Slight confusion there: KaZaA is what the RIAA used. KaZaA Lite[/i] is an anonymous, ad-ware and spy-ware free 'fan version' of the Kazaa client, and well worth using, simply because of the huge volume of Kazaa users means you've a good chance of finding what you're looking for. A good friend of mine (who certainly isn't me pretending it's not me for the purposes of this post) recently managed to download 'Distinction' by The Suffrajets, which is the obscurest track I...I mean he's ever managed to get off any file sharing network. So there  - Rich Not a music pirate. Arrr. |
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Post by Robert on Oct 22, 2003 9:30:52 GMT -5
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Post by DocD83 on Oct 24, 2003 6:44:45 GMT -5
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Kitsune
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Post by Kitsune on Oct 26, 2003 15:39:44 GMT -5
I mostly visit Bittorrent sites and if I see something I like, I get it. Mostly I download Japanese soundtrack albums, and the occasional US record. I got Kill Bill's soundtrack there, and want to get it when I get the chance.
I use K++ [Kazaa ++] Lite and WinMX to search for single songs, or other things.
Every once in a while I also visit some IRC channels to get Japanese music.
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Post by DarthToad on Oct 26, 2003 17:39:45 GMT -5
I mostly visit Bittorrent sites and if I see something I like, I get it. Bittorent. If only I knew of it earlier. I'm sticking with Kazaa Lite, but I use Bittorent for downloading some things, and I have to say that it rules! The only problem is that when I'm uploading for too long my computer really slows down a lot. But besides that, it rules. |
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Post by Magill on Nov 18, 2003 11:01:25 GMT -5
Granted, you're not going to get everything you want, but I like visiting epitonic.com. They have free, legal mp3's, mostly from a lot of indie artists. You can make up playlists to stream from any computer and you can send them to friends. It's a good way to get a sampling of an artist's style. Plus, I'm a wannabe music snob, and it's how I heard of the White Stripes and the Strokes before the big media blitz.
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Uber
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Post by Uber on Nov 18, 2003 11:42:52 GMT -5
I hadn't bought a CD in a while, but this morning just noticed a little ditty on the inside cover of the "Let It Be...Naked":
Interesting, but futile.
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Post by dajaymann on Nov 18, 2003 11:51:22 GMT -5
Hey, it's ok to re-release an album in a reworked and remastered fashion, and make some more bank off of it 30 years later. But try to get some of these tracks off the internet for free (tracks that myself, and both my parents have paid for in the past by purchasing said album), and that's wrong.
Sorry, it just struck me as funny.
Honestly, I have no beef with reworking an album that some of the original artists may not have been totally happy with from the beginning anyway - but those notes strike a nerve.
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