Wolverines

Once upon a time I had Napster. Once upon a time that shit used to NOT fuck your computer into oblivion.

Anyway, I used to avoid blowing up my computer by staying a little ahead of the curve - Use the lesser known more reliable program.

Anyone know of a safe, reliable way to get free/affordable tunes?

bittorrents are the new hawtness.

Download a BT client (I use Azureus, or as it's called now, Vuze), then use a site to find the torrents themselves.  I use mininova.org for most of my stuff.  It is worth noting that I use torrents solely for the legal transfer of large, non-copyrighted files for which I am in no way violating intellectual property rights or the Terms of Service as set forth by my ISP.  The Wolverines, as an organization, does not condone the use of the Internets, heretofore referred to as "The Tubes", or the bittorents therein, for the illegal acquisition and/or dissemination of copyrighted materials.

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i use uTorrent, and like JT, also use the mininova.org site to accquire said torrents. As JT said, these torrents are non copyrighted items which are in the public domain.

Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever use limewire or any similar program. unless it's someone else's computer. then i suggest downloading nothing but horse cocks and gore. bonus points if the computer is networked with file sharing capabilites.

bitttorrents ftw, i'd trust JT on this one. limewire is the devil. when people bring in their laptops to our office because its f'ed with viruses and spyware I always, always see the limewire shortcut on their desktop.

RedDawn is the best way to get tunes

JT...set me up a box I can get into and torrent stuff on...torrents dont work over here :(

Bittorrent. Get a program called uTorrent. If your have a router you will need to port forward it. It can be a bear to setup initially but if you do your homework and have a good connection, its like crack.

I, like JT, use "Vuze" for my torrent needs, and love it.

I installed Vuse and thought it was bloated. I dont need to stinking media player in my thift machine!

I use uTorrent and Vuse. Sometimes Vuse likes to pretend its ports are not mapped, but I like the interface and built in search engine.

I usually use mininova or thepiratebay.org
If its not on one, its usually on the other. If its not on either, it doesn't exist

usenet is a good place for music too

I download all my midi files from BBS

Thanks you guys.

I use ruckus.com to download most of my music. It's free for college students, which is pretty bad ass, but limited in selection and unfortunately it doesn't allow me to stick it on my iPod. I think with the right program you can rip it permanently so I'll try that and keep your suggestions in mind for music I can't get through Ruckus.

One thing you might also consider is downloading Microsoft's Zune software.  You can buy their Zune Pass thing which gives you unlimited downloads for $15 a month.  The only catch is that if you discontinue your subscription, the music you downloaded self-destructs.  This is all well and legal...up until the point that you use another piece of software called TuneBite to strip the DRM from the files and they are yours forever (technically, it re-encodes them in a non-DRM format).  This way you can pay for your cake and keep it forever in a cryogenic chamber too.  I think I got that metaphor wrong.  You pay a small amount of money, you break a teeny, tiny law, then you takes the music, Labowski.  You get the point.

eh, Whats wrong with Limewire?

My school gives us Ruckus too. Its pretty cool, I know I have the ripping program around here somewhere. I'll take a look and get you the name, pretty sure its freeware

i know a guy who did this and got 16gigs of music for free... just sayin' it works.


it sucks.

Then if you get zune pass I can give you software to rip the drm off ;)

FREEEEEEE

What bitrate with the zune shit?
Is it in mp3?

yeah I think it's like 256....then the software converts them to mp3s

they sound perfectly fine tho...for metal is so so.....for the hippy bullshit these effeminate guys listen to it's great

centery media, nuclear blast?

Hit's really hit or miss...like hypocrisy will only have one but ddark tranquillity will have them all.

just tell me what you need and I will grab

And even those files will be riddled with Viruses/Spyware like a cheap cheap whore.

The world was beautiful for a few years with Napster, kazaa, there were a couple others.  Been doing Rhapsody which seems like Zune without being able to put stuff on a portable player without purchasing the mp3s I Tunes style.  I hate I Tunes though.  Which brings up a question.  How would one go about contacting apple to get songs one purchased that never downloaded.  I couldn't find any contact information whatsoever.  That and the selection on I Tunes is not only awful but there are a lot of KTel versions of songs on there.  Some of that crap can unfortunately be found on Rhapsody as well.  Oh, and Rhapsody has some purchase only songs.  Like anything by Metallica. 

So Rhapsody is pretty good if you never ever leave your desktop and or laptop.  And if you don't listen to Metallica or don't mind paying them extra.  Also not so good for metal.