iTunes

[JimmyCooper]

I've been downloading music off the net for nearly 10 years now and the other day I had the misfortune to use iTunes.

I have never used such an unuser friendly site and when I had downloaded the song I wanted do you think I could transfer it into media player (despite the instructions I was given) lol

What are others opinions of it

[Aotearoa]

Limewire ;)

[JimmyCooper]

Ive always used limewire/frostwire then drag and sropped str8 into media player

itunes was pants lol

[rojash]

I can't use it 'cos its tells me my Mastercard is not valid in my country of residence - Americans are a bit provincial, I find.

[fo3nix]

Works perfectly well for me.

The songs are guaranteed to be good quality, which illegally downloading isn't. And, you know, some money actually goes to the artists this way (not that I'm a fan of the record industry's business model).

Make sure the song is an iTunes plus song. Once you have it, drag it from iTunes to your desktop or somewhere --- the file will now be there. Then just drag it into whatever program you want, provided said program can understand aac files (most decent newish ones can).

[JimmyCooper]

fo3nix

I tried that but the song i downloaded was an mp4a file so I couldnt do anything with it

Plus the artist gets a whole 6p out of the 79p download cost lol

[daffy654]

For anyone who still downloads illegally this will make an interesting read:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8003799. stm

[JimmyCooper]

To start with:

It's Sweden not the UK


Secondly, I have been downloading illegally for ten years and what has happened to me...

sound of tumbleweed.....

[CheekyChick]

I think www.7digital.com is a good site for downloading legal tracks - the bitrate is at 320 which is a much better quality than ITunes uses.

[daffy654]

It makes no difference whether it is Sweden or the UK,there have been cases here where people have been prosecuted for downloading copyrighted material illegally.
Just because you have been committing a crime for over 10 years and have so far gotten away with it doesn't mean you will continue to do so.It also doesn't make it right!

[ChuckFickens]

Oi do some work cheekychick ;)

[CheekyChick]

Chuck - don't be so rude!!!
POT......KETTLE.....BLACK!!!
lol :o)

[Postdog]

To buy I use Amazon downloads. No DRM's, easy to download, and some right bargains too.

[JimmyCooper]

So Daffy I take it you have never borrowed a CD or a book from a friend then?

[daffy654]

I have genuinely never borrowed a CD or book from a friend.If I am at a friend's house and like whatever they are listnening to I will go out and buy the album,if someone recommends a book to me I will either borrow it from the library or buy it myself.I have a huge CD,DVD and book collection.

[Ethel]

Borrowing a book is a bad example. Whilst the friend has it, the owner doesn't. The friend isn't going to photocopy a book so they both have it.

[fo3nix]

Jimmy: yes, it'll be a m4a file. This is just an aac file, as I said.

Media Player should (I think) be able to play it. If not, then it's Media Player being rubbish, not iTunes. aac files have been able to be played by most Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones in the past 5 years, nevermind your computer.

CheekyChick: Yes, iTunes uses 256kbps files and 7digital's are 320kbps. But iTunes' format is aac, not mp3. This gives better results anyway, so the end result is the same, or if anything, I'd put money on aac.

[ChuckFickens]

if media player won't play them then install the Klite codec pack and it will almost certainly be able to play them after that

http://www.filehippo.com/download_klite_codec_ pack/download/9e9a00e63767376c14dd5b6c4e395f07 /