What program for downloading music?

[Chaotic]

I checked on the "best programs" list or whatever but couldn't find one.

I used to use limewire like a year ago, but have 5k+ songs and havent really needed more lately but feeling like maybe i want to make some updates.


So, is it still limewire? I don't want to download some new version thats going to drop some hot spyware all over my system.

[Aegdaien]

wow

[Kobalt]

Albums? BT obviously. Singles? Guess limewire is still the way to go if you don't mind the virus in every other file thing...

[brekk]

Torrents... no matter what.

[Malakriss]

If you don't care about lossless sound quality, there's this place called youtube that puts up not only the audio, but videos along with it.

[Bornalon]

i usually just google: "albumname" rapidshare or "albumname" megaupload and download directly from one of these sites.

if this doesn't work, i check soulseek and bittorrent (demonoid/isohunt/pirate bay)

[Kaio]

Originally Posted by Malakriss

If you don't care about lossless sound quality, there's this place called youtube that puts up not only the audio, but videos along with it.

If you're okay with flash, imeem for better quality.

[Galgor]

Soulseek for individual songs.

As mentioned by Bornalon, you can get a lot of popular albums on blog posts if you google rapidshare/megaupload after the album title.

For more rare full albums, torrents are the way to go. Torrentz.com is a pretty good place, since it searches a lot of the popular public torrent websites and spits out results. Once you get into the swing of public torrent websites, register and start using private ones--there's a ton more to choose from.

[rinthea]

google search

intitle:"index.of" (mp3|mp4|avi) baby.got.back -html -htm -php -asp -cf -jsp

change song title if u want

[Gauss]

I have found every single song on Youtube that I attempted to search for.

[Ashes Emberblade]

Originally Posted by rinthea

google search

intitle:"index.of" (mp3|mp4|avi) baby.got.back -html -htm -php -asp -cf -jsp

change song title if u want

Wow... this works very well.

[Lefazz]

I'm not huge into music...but I use Frostwire for any random stuff I decide to look for.

[Ronne]

SkreemR Mp3 Search - World's Greatest Mp3 Search Engine - Find music, podcasts, ringtones, interviews and speeches.

[tseveng]

I am still a proponent of Ruckus if you have access to a .edu email address (make sure you lie and say that you're still a student though). They have had a vast majority of the music that I want and the ability to search, download, and listen at a rate much faster than I could have otherwise accomplished. The only down side is that you'll need to remove the 30-day DRM to put it on an MP3 player / listen to it without WMP.

[Aetos]

Originally Posted by tseveng

I am still a proponent of Ruckus if you have access to a .edu email address (make sure you lie and say that you're still a student though). They have had a vast majority of the music that I want and the ability to search, download, and listen at a rate much faster than I could have otherwise accomplished. The only down side is that you'll need to remove the 30-day DRM to put it on an MP3 player / listen to it without WMP.

I use Imeem. its the best for single songs. If im looking for albums ill torrent. use free music zilla to download the song from imeem in .flv format and then i open cmd prompt and use ffmpeg to convert it into .mp3. works well, and the quality is much better than youtube