Illegal Music Downloading

Limewire and Bearshare are awful.


I use MP3 Rocket if I want to download single songs or episodes. I use Utorrent to download full albums, seasons and movies. I got all 8 of Burzum's albums fully downloaded in less than an hour.

[Lord Grendel]

^^I used MP3 Rocket for about a year and I learned a lot from that little program. If you have ever visited their technical forum you can't miss me Foxy...

[charliepage88]

Never heard of MP3 Rocket, will give it a try.

With music, uTorrent only for me. Though I rarely download stuff.

[gguerra]

Originally Posted by FoxyPage Limewire and Bearshare are awful. I use MP3 Rocket if I want to download single songs or episodes. I use Utorrent to download full albums, seasons and movies. I got all 8 of Burzum's albums fully downloaded in less than an hour.

BTW

You can use Utorrent for single songs

Just start the torrent download and when you get the window asking to confirm the download you can select or de-select any individual files from within the list that you want.

[Ezequiel]

I have so many sources to download music...

- Rapidshare/Megaupload
- utorrent (for music I mainly use the websites isohunt.com and completorrent.com)
- 4usonly.biz (This is a dutch website which costs 10 euro's a month for a membership and people upload albums there from mainly Dutch artists
- Spotify (I managed to find a way to rip music of this amazing application in 320 Kbps quality)
- lala.com (This website will unfortunately shut down at the end of may)

[Lord Grendel]

Originally Posted by charliepage88 Never heard of MP3 Rocket, will give it a try. With music, uTorrent only for me. Though I rarely download stuff.

I wouldn't bother with MP3 Rocket if you are using uTorrent it is far better for getting quality and complete albums.

I did learn quite a lot when I paid for my one year subscription to Rocket, but I haven't used Limewire to download anything for years now, and that is what Rocket uses for their P2P downloads.

[gguerra]

As for searching for torrents I would recommend torrentz.com

It is a search engine for torrents and automatically searches like 30 sites.

[Zombeels]

Originally Posted by gguerra As for searching for torrents I would recommend torrentz.com It is a search engine for torrents and automatically searches like 30 sites.

Not sure I like that. Checked to see if an album was available and every link had no bitrate attached to it.

[Lord Grendel]

I simply look for the keywords, EAC rip, FLAC and CUE sheet Log included...usually that guarantees quality Z.

[Zombeels]

Originally Posted by Lord Grendel I simply look for the keywords, EAC rip, FLAC and CUE sheet Log included...usually that guarantees quality Z.

That is the form I'm looking for either EAC or FLAC but none of the links from torrentz.com showed that.

[Lord Grendel]

Go to Btjunkie and enter FLAC into the search...you'll see hundreds of selections pop up.

[annie]

You guys are a bunch of criminals [just kidding]

[gguerra]

Originally Posted by Zombeels Not sure I like that. Checked to see if an album was available and every link had no bitrate attached to it.

It is a torrent search site. Not specifically for music (MP3, FLAC etc). Therefore looking for bitrates would be a bit of a stretch. You would have to look at the description and/or contents of the torrent to find that out and it may not be available for all.. Bitrate would only be a consideration when talking about MP3's anyway and it's been my experience some torrents will list it and some will not.

[Lord Grendel]

I can tell by visiting the site myself or by the size of the torrent. A good FLAC of a normal CD is about 300 Megs, and a 320 of a 45 minute album is around 100 Megs. I am not a fan of VB's as a rule. That search engine is pretty cool though GG, but I have enough options already I usually find what I want in HQ.

[Dairenn]

Given how cheap, easy, faster and higher quality legal downloads are, it's not worth the chance that like I (or my neighbor accidentally) gets sued by the RIAA. Since they're using IP addresses (incorrectly) to personally identify people, you don't want to wind up like that one single mother who didn't even know what an MP3 was getting sued to the tune of a few hundred grand because someone was using her non-password protected Wi-Fi connection to the Internet with a laptop stuck out the window.

If you consider yourself against stealing in general, then you're probably against illegally downloading music. Intellectual property is given that designation due to the time/effort/money used to produce the material in question. There is a reason the concept of copyrights actually appears in the US Constitution; the dudes who wrote that were pretty smart.

Then there is the matter of material that is out of print and has been, for intents and purposes, abandoned due to the perceived lack of commercial viability. While the majority of illegally pirated music is Top 40 garbage that DOES make the labels a lot of money, there are some MP3s floating around of music that is basically impossible to find. Not every town has a small, local record store specializing in out of print vinyl and cassettes. Websites on the Internet have helped with things like this, but they're not the ones the RIAA or the IFPI are talking about being the major pariah the way Napster and now The Pirate Bay are.

One might be able to mentally justify it by saying, "well, I'll buy tickets to this artists' concerts, which is where they make most of their money anyway." But from the perspective of the artists and their representatives, there's no way THEY can account for who's really doing that. No other business works that way. "Well, I'm going to walk out of your dealership with car stereos, but I promise to buy that really expensive car you're trying to sell, because that's where you're going to make most of your money anyway." That just seems silly. In fact, one could argue that the losses taken by the stolen music eventually offset any gain in supposed, future-promised concert tickets.