graham
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Can anyone recommend a safe one. I dont mind paying for the tracks but dont want a monthly subscription.
Online music provider.
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RIMCOas01
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Google gets you loads of hits (search : Free MP3) ... and my experience (and that of teenage girls) is positive.
Some software enabling you to download requires you to "open your own PC" for own resident tracks to be added to the online library ... just ensure you have your files on a sep. drive and have safeguarded (firewalled) your other PC areas.
Yes I know there is a risk ... but also a lot of hype too ... after 5 years and using innumerable PCs & a playlist of many thousands of songs we have not had a problem ... to date ;-))
Other I am sure will disagree and have their own fav. sites.
Some software enabling you to download requires you to "open your own PC" for own resident tracks to be added to the online library ... just ensure you have your files on a sep. drive and have safeguarded (firewalled) your other PC areas.
Yes I know there is a risk ... but also a lot of hype too ... after 5 years and using innumerable PCs & a playlist of many thousands of songs we have not had a problem ... to date ;-))
Other I am sure will disagree and have their own fav. sites.
Twister_Ken
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Lakesailor
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I had http://www.allofmp3.com/ recommended to me on here. I've used it for a year now and it's safe. They also have a little downloadable programme that sits on yous PC and handles the track downloads for you.
Cheap as chips.
$3.10 for Kaiser Chiefs at CD quality. You do have to create an account and put credit in, but there is no minimum spend. You just buy tracks when you want.
Cheap as chips.
$3.10 for Kaiser Chiefs at CD quality. You do have to create an account and put credit in, but there is no minimum spend. You just buy tracks when you want.
sarabande
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My screamage daughter says itunes is safe and has a full range of music. She would: I am paying !
No sub, just choose what you fancy. They are all legal.
No sub, just choose what you fancy. They are all legal.
Spyro
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I've been using Limewire for several years for downloading MP3 files and never had a problem. It's also free.
I believe the only illegal bit is when you have them available for sharing with others.
I believe the only illegal bit is when you have them available for sharing with others.
st599
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No, it's not, you haven't paid the copyright owners fees for use of their music. In the UK it's actually illegal to change the medium of storage without consent too. So if you rip a CD to go onto an iPod, that's technically against the law.
vyv_cox
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I've been using Limewire for a while and my son has used it for years. Neither of us has had any problem. Standard virus software protects users and it will operate from behind a firewall.
silvertop
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I have used allsorts of freebies and finished up with all sorts of rubbish and viruses. I now use itunes better safe than sorry.
Spyro
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Are you sure about that, I don't pay copyright owners fees if I listen to something on the radio.
If I was recording it then making it available for someone else to listen to that would be a different matter.
In March 2005, 23 people in the UK paid a total of £50,000 in compensation after being taken to court.
They admitted making up to 9,000 tracks available for other people to download from their computers.
If I was recording it then making it available for someone else to listen to that would be a different matter.
In March 2005, 23 people in the UK paid a total of £50,000 in compensation after being taken to court.
They admitted making up to 9,000 tracks available for other people to download from their computers.
graham
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Thanks for the advice ,I think I'll go with itunes. I havent got a problem paying for the music,just didnt want a monthly subscription charge such as you get with Napster.
srp
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Are you sure about that
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SimonT is right - music downloaded for free, especially using p2p software, is generally pirated, and as you haven't paid for it, its illegal. By default most p2p programs (including Limewire) store your downloads in a shared folder accessible to other p2p users while you're on line, so you may well be unwittingly re-distributing it. Some really ordinary people have been caught out by record companies to the tune of several thousand pounds.
Radio stations pay a license fee every time they pay a track - which is why you can listen to the radio for free. As long as you don't record it.
Are you sure about that
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SimonT is right - music downloaded for free, especially using p2p software, is generally pirated, and as you haven't paid for it, its illegal. By default most p2p programs (including Limewire) store your downloads in a shared folder accessible to other p2p users while you're on line, so you may well be unwittingly re-distributing it. Some really ordinary people have been caught out by record companies to the tune of several thousand pounds.
Radio stations pay a license fee every time they pay a track - which is why you can listen to the radio for free. As long as you don't record it.
Spyro
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With Limewire you are not unwittingly sharing files as you select where to store your downloaded files and wither or not you want to make that folder/file available for sharing with other p2p users.
I don't doubt that it is probably illegal to download copyright protected music but I don't think anyone has ever been prosecuted for it, the only prosecutions have been for making music available for others to download.
I don't doubt that it is probably illegal to download copyright protected music but I don't think anyone has ever been prosecuted for it, the only prosecutions have been for making music available for others to download.
Niander
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You can d/l from tescos even...every little...eh wots wrong with limewire?
st599
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Are you sure about that, I don't pay copyright owners fees if I listen to something on the radio.
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Yes you do (indirectly). The broadcaster has to report all music played to the relevant collection agency. They are then charged per use based on the audience size. A large station playing recent music nationally will be paying thousand's per day. This'll be passed on via advertising sales/licence fee/phone in charges etc.
Are you sure about that, I don't pay copyright owners fees if I listen to something on the radio.
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Yes you do (indirectly). The broadcaster has to report all music played to the relevant collection agency. They are then charged per use based on the audience size. A large station playing recent music nationally will be paying thousand's per day. This'll be passed on via advertising sales/licence fee/phone in charges etc.
graham
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You can d/l from tescos even...every little...eh
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And thats exactly what I just did. Quick and easy,seems to do what it says on the box.....and you get club points /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gifI know,very sad but there you go /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
You can d/l from tescos even...every little...eh
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And thats exactly what I just did. Quick and easy,seems to do what it says on the box.....and you get club points /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gifI know,very sad but there you go /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
TwinRudders
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Well said Simon
Are you also a member of PRS?!
I use itunes - I think it's excellent as are lots of the other legal sites. The way the download industry has stopped the pirates isn't really by prosecuting infringers but as steve Jobs at Apple said - it's by making their sites the most excellent, most user friendly out there.
And from a composers point of view it's important that people pay for music they want a "copy" of...otherwise what's the incentive to write anything new if it all becomes free on the internet.
Right - back to the garden...
Are you also a member of PRS?!
I use itunes - I think it's excellent as are lots of the other legal sites. The way the download industry has stopped the pirates isn't really by prosecuting infringers but as steve Jobs at Apple said - it's by making their sites the most excellent, most user friendly out there.
And from a composers point of view it's important that people pay for music they want a "copy" of...otherwise what's the incentive to write anything new if it all becomes free on the internet.
Right - back to the garden...