Music downloads

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 21st, 2007, 10:55

There's so much music I like and I never get to own it because I can never find anywhere decent to get it from. Ideally I'd like an online store that sells MP3 downloads, as I can pick the song I want and usually it's only about 70p. I can never find anywhere with a decent selection though that doesn't use WMA with DRM, and I refuse to buy anything with DRM. Anyone any suggestions? I'm not interested in file sharing because I've had more bad experiences than good with slow download times and endless serching for decent seeds, I just want a straight download.

For dance music I've found https://www.beatport.com/ to be very good and with a very expansive selection (although it does weird things like not let you buy certain tracks if you're in a certain area).

Older (mainly 80s) music seems particularly hard to find, as Googling it just pulls up loads of 'zomg downlaod for free!!!1!' sites, which I don't trust.

Post by **Joose** » April 21st, 2007, 11:09

http://www.allofmp3.com

legal? ish.
You going to get in trouble for using it? no.
Filesharing? not at all.

Plus is supports many options for mp3 flavours, various bit rates etc. and its cheap. and it has a pretty reasonable selection. Go there now!

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 21st, 2007, 11:31

Isn't this the dodgy Russian one?

*investigates anyway*

Post by **Roman Totale** » April 21st, 2007, 11:45

I've never been able to get that to work. Whenever I try to set up a payment it says they're not accepting credit cards at the time.

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 21st, 2007, 11:53

Roman Totale wrote:I've never been able to get that to work. Whenever I try to set up a payment it says they're not accepting credit cards at the time.

I'm getting this too.

cashy · Post by **cashy** » April 21st, 2007, 11:55

OiNK? *Shrug*

eion · Post by **eion** » April 21st, 2007, 11:58

cashy wrote:OiNK? *Shrug*

This, hard, although it is BitTorrent. Also, it's very hard to maintain a decent ratio on Oink.

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 21st, 2007, 12:01

This is whay I've not bothered with it. I don't leave stuff like that on all the time so I'll never have a good ratio, and I can't be arsed with the half-downloads and appalling times you get from torrents. It seems like unless it's less than a couple of weeks old you're going to end up disappointed.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 21st, 2007, 12:03

Yeah, Oink and what was said previously. It works well enough.

I mostly buy CDs still but get the odd track from sweepage.

eion · Post by **eion** » April 21st, 2007, 12:07

Dog Pants wrote:This is whay I've not bothered with it. I don't leave stuff like that on all the time so I'll never have a good ratio, and I can't be arsed with the half-downloads and appalling times you get from torrents. It seems like unless it's less than a couple of weeks old you're going to end up disappointed.

Downloads from Oink can be a little slow at times, but half-downloads are extremely rare (I've never had one on Oink, and I've been a member for quite some time). The quality from Oink tends to be very good, too. As to selection, I've only had one request that went unfulfilled, and that was for something super-obscure. My other super-obscure requests on there have all been filled, much to my surprise.

I just checked my Oink profile, and I uploaded a torrent on September 6th, 2005, that still has 26 seeders!

cashy · Post by **cashy** » April 21st, 2007, 12:11

Also: free leech at christmas, this is the secret to good ratio. (Unless you want to actually upload something... ew)

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 21st, 2007, 12:20

cashy wrote:(Unless you want to actually upload something... ew)

If you can actually find something that isn't already uploaded.

Post by **FatherJack** » April 21st, 2007, 20:41

I've recently discovered http://djdownload.com/ - it's geared towards new dance music - which is fine by me. At £1.25 for 192kbps and £1.5 for 320kbps it's a bit more than most, but it's a good site to browse on even if you're not buying - it has preference matching which seems to work quite well for me, a lot of upcoming tracks which are hard to get a listen of elsewhere (although you have to wait til release to download them). I find it especially useful for determining the correct full name of remix tracks, as very often there 'll only be one I particularly like, and swept versions are often mis-named.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » April 22nd, 2007, 9:39

Wikipedia wrote:On April 2, 2007, Steve Jobs and EMI anounced DRM free music for EMI's complete music library for a $0.30 premium above the standard price. This begins in May 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 22nd, 2007, 10:49

http://www.bleep.com/ - another music download site, DRM free and 0.99 a track or cheaper for groups of tracks. I haven't visited for a while but they seem to have expanded beyond the purely electronic music they had when it started a few years ago. Worth a look.