Free MP3 Downloads?

[Twirly00]

I've just ordered a MP3 Player for my husband's birthday but neither of us know how these things work. Is there any good sites where you can download free music as don't want to have to pay. Thanks.

[MargeB]

www.amazon.com

[Mobius1]

There aren't any websites where you can legally download copyrighted music for free, no, just illegal ones which I shall not mention here, since this place is already full of shady peeps who liberally distribute that information.

With services like iTunes being as popular as they are (iTunes recently reached it's 500,000,000th legal music sale) there's lots of competition in the digital music download arena, and single tracks on iTunes are a mere 79p. Of course, you can turn all your CD albums into MP3s and similar formats using your PCs CD-ROM drive too.

As for how the MP3 player works, well it differs from model to model. I suggest looking in the instruction manual; that's always a good place to start.

[MargeB]

www.amazon.com

Free, legal, music downloads.

[stevie21]

Mobius1, it's a little ironic that you avoid encouraging illegal downloads as this is "shady" but are happy for copyrighted CDs to be copied to mp3. In the UK, that's illegal.

Does amazon offer anything better than low quality excerpts from songs?

[Mattk]

stevie, the difference being that mobius is referring to cd's already owned being converted to mp3.im not so sure this is illegal as i thought you were allowed to make 'back-ups' of products you already own.also,even if it is illegal,you would never be prosecuted as an enormous can of worms would be opened up as millions of people worldwide also do this and then you would have to move on to people recording progs off the telly etc etc etc

by transferring your own cd's to mp3 you havent cost the artist or the label any money.

[stevie21]

Maybe I should have stated it more fully so that it sounded like less of a guess. In the UK, it's 100% illegal to convert copyrighted CDs to mp3 (or cassette). Being prosecuted for this is a different kettle of fish altogether, I'm only offering info on the legality. I know everyone (myself included) does it so I'm not lecturing anyone, just offering a little known fact.

http://www.out-law.com/page-3956-theme=print
"Under Britain's existing legislation," explains Robertson, "it infringes copyright to convert a song from a CD into MP3 format..."

[MargeB]

It is my understanding that stevie is speaking from an informed position, ripping CD to MP3 is unauthorised duplication, whatever way you look at it. Practically speaking, with Peer to Peer (excuse my language) programs being designed to sniff for MP3s on your PC and then make them available to the world, you may find yourself in some hot water by doing so.

www.amazon.com Complete, free, full quality, MP3s from major artists. Thousands of them.

[bruce5755]

Try this, plenty of choice though not big names, but 100% legal.  http://www.download.com/  Good Luck.

[Mobius1]

Perhaps what I said was ironic, given that I didn't know that converting an audio CD that you own to MP3 is illegal.

However, I think the morality of what I said is still perfectly justified, if you know what I mean. Intentionally searching the net or using P2P programs to download music that you do not already own and have no intention of paying for might be just as illegal as converting music from a CD you own into an MP3, but I think one of them certainly takes the moral high ground over the other.

In one case it's something that I already own, whereas in the other it isn't. Seems pretty clear-cut to me.

[stevie21]

Couldn't agree more Mobius1 - one's more wrong in my mind even if they're just as illegal as each other.
As mentioned, I'm not making any moral judgement as both are illegal and more people than you can count on your fingers and toes do both.

[Mattk]

in p2p progs you have to delegate your shared folder so as long as any ripped songs are not placed in that folder you will be fine.

peace out !

[MargeB]

folder..what, eh? I don't use peer to peer, thought it had something to do with the house of Lords.

[Hermia]

Band/artist websites will often have free MP3s on them.

[MargeB]

Like here

[missmooncat]

try bit torrent sites

[RipedForskin]

A boy and girls your all wrong the latest P2P is "Exeem" Uses metadata.."