Merry Christmas, A new and first MP3 player has me looking for a good site to download free and safe from virus music. Some of you sound far more capable than I in this area. Any advice will sound great!!!

I use iTunes for all my music related stuff. Some people I know use eMusic. They are similar in many ways, except eMusic is a subscription type thing whereas iTunes is pay-as-you-go.

I hope you aren't just looking for some tool that lets you steal music, like the old Napster or LimeWire, you should be ashamed if that's what you're asking.

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon

I don't want to start a flame war, but I don't find that shamefull. If you chose limewire or a similar program, don't keep your files in your shared folder, stash them somewhere else so no users can download from you and Capital Records doesn't come knocking on your door.

Oh yeah. The new Napster sucks. You pay a monthly fee to download and use music. If you don't pay the fee, all the music you already have stops playing.

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"Free and safe" is probably best gotten from your music CD's. I get all my online music from Itunes. Itunes store usually has a free download of the week.

Music is a business and the artists are entitled to their cut.

When you purchase music from Itunes the software allows you to load the music on to 5 distinct and separate computers so some light sharing is allowed. Any songs I purchase are loaded on all of my families different Ipods.

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Later.........Gregg

(86) 300 SDL
(00) GMC Yukon XL 4X4
(97) C5 Corvette
(02) BMW R1150GS Adventure
(00) KAW Nomad 1500 FI

Check out my other thread on this topic: http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=164420

There is very little on the "free" channels that are not virus infected. ITunes is cheap, fast, safe, and very loose on what you can do with it.

I'm very surprised the mods are lagging behind and have not moved this to OD yet.

If you are wanting to download songs from iTunes for use on anything except Ipod players, consider that iTunes uses a copy-protected mp4 format, not compatible with mp3 players or CDs. iTunes lets you convert to .wav files for CDs but the copy protection won't allow the use of their iTunes mp4-to-mp3 conversion utility.

I have software that will do this, but most people just dump songs to CD then upconvert to mp3 with Windows Media.

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