Purchasing MP3 Format Music Online

  • lots-of-luck
    Mayer, MN
    Posts: 593
    June 20, 2010 at 5:17 pm #1268075

    Any suggestions for purchasing music online? Best price, ease of use or selection. I would like to hear your recommendations. I am 32 and officially way behind the times.

    blue-fleck
    Dresbach, MN
    Posts: 7872
    June 20, 2010 at 5:24 pm #881299

    I used to buy a membership to Limewire and download files from there, but since they lost their latest lawsuit, I’ve stayed away from them.

    My wife buys music from i-Tunes and has had zero problems with it.

    Steve Plantz
    SE MN
    Posts: 12239
    June 20, 2010 at 5:39 pm #881405

    Quote:

    I am 32 and officially way behind the times.

    If 32 is way behind the times then I am in big trouble.

    My Wife and Daughter use a free service at http://www.frostwire.com

    lots-of-luck
    Mayer, MN
    Posts: 593
    June 20, 2010 at 5:51 pm #881407

    Quote:

    Quote:

    I am 32 and officially way behind the times.

    If 32 is way behind the times then I am in big trouble.

    Meaning I have everything still on CD and many of those are getting wore out from travel and kids scratching them, etc.

    I am also looking to purchase a mp3 player loaded up with music as a gift for my father to plug into his Honda Valkyrie Interstate motorcycle.

    Thanks for the suggestions.

    nick
    Lakeville, MN
    Posts: 4977
    June 20, 2010 at 5:52 pm #881408

    Rarely do I ever buy music anymore, but when I find song I really want I go to amazon music prices are fair, and you download good quality mp3 that don’t have any restrictions of what you can play them on or copy them.

    I used to buy lots of music back in the napster days, that ended up being a lose, lose for me and the music industry. I personally don’t want to deal with bit torrents, though a lot of people do.

    diesel
    Menomonee Falls, WI
    Posts: 1020
    June 20, 2010 at 7:59 pm #881416

    I use I-tunes for my Ipod shuffle. No Problems.

    D

    AllenW
    Mpls, MN
    Posts: 2895
    June 20, 2010 at 8:10 pm #881417

    Listen to the various bit rates and see if any of them don’t sound as well as you’d like, 320 will get you decent audio quaility and as you go down from there you will lose quaility.

    I have a mp3 player and run everything at 320 but at 128 you’ll get a lot more music loaded into the player.
    But poorer sound. imho

    Once you find if there’s any difference, then you can see who offers what bit rate.

    Al

    DrewH
    s/w WI.
    Posts: 1404
    June 21, 2010 at 2:00 am #881483

    Sat down with a rep from Apple today to help me get my Ipad started. Apparently Itunes is the answer on this toy. Talk about behind, this world has been trying to drag me into the 21rst century since about 1992 to just recently. My daughter tells me that our 13 yo grand daughter is saving for an Ipad and knows how to use the booger. That is just plain embarrassing.

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