Where to download music?

[honkytonkman]

A friend has asked me to download various songs from the Internet, so that I can burn them onto CD. He intends to play them on a conventional CD player. Does such a site exist? I thought it was all MP3 format etc...

[bluedolphin]

Download them as mp3s and then convert them into the format that can be read on the cd player. I think there are some software packages that will do this for you automatically as they burn the files onto the cd.

[honkytonkman]

Thanks for that bluedolphin... Next question.. where can I download MP3s for nowt., now that Napster etc is dead.. Thanks :)

[xyzzyplugh]

winmx, gnucleus, shareaza, kazaa-lite
winmx link here http://www.winmx.com/ shareaza here http://www.shareaza.com/ gnucleus here http://www.gnucleus.net/GnucDNA/

[Hippy]

I would definitely NOT reccomend Kazza. Its adware invades your poota and the downloads can contain pernicious poota destroying code. This is not so much the problem wityh Kazza, but some of its brainless users. Unfortunately the stuff just keeps going round the Kazza community multipying as it goes. The whole thing is now riddled with destructive code.

I've used WinMX with few problems. But you have to be so carefull with any peer to peer system as there are no safety nets to catch deliberate destructive code. You have to use a lot of caution. Suspect everyone, trust no-one!

[NickleArse]

I have been downloading from Kazaa and Kazaa-lite for ages and have never experienced a problem with "poota" viruses or "destructive code". But then again I do run an up to date virus checker which finds these viruses before they become destructive.

[honkytonkman]

Thanks for the answers and the links to the various sites.. Very much appreciated... am off to burn away to my heart's content.

[gilf]

In terms of burning (I'm sure many poeple will disagree) Microsoft Media Player 9 is pretty good. Its free to download and burning MP3's to CD is trivial. Just create a playlist then click the copy to CD and it does the convertion for you. One small warning not all CD players can play copied disks, however this is becomming less of a problem as it tends to be older ones.

[levitt]

I use Kaaza and agree there are some problems but have recently installed software called Spybot search and destroy which should protect you from dodgy code etc. Also worth sharing your won files to get a better rating on kaaza which helps speed up downloads etc.