downloading music

[macklin]

1st of all, altho I know very little about computers I do know about illegal downloading of music ( a bit anyway).

Please stay with me

I am interested in the blues, trad jazz, and country westen all in the 30s 40s and 50s. I find these are very hard to buy and then you pay $30/$40 and get 1or 2 songs (if you are lucky) that you have not got. A friend downloaded kazaa which got me into all kinds of trouble, took me 2 days to get rid of everything, I hope.

Now to my question, has anybody got a really good site, free from spam, adaware, malware, viruses, where I can do the above downloading. I am more than willing to pay for the downloads, has anybody got a good site possibly in Australia to make it easier to pay for them rather than overseas.

I tried the above post in another forum and got accused of all sorts and then thrown off because of the illegallity of my question. If this is so here, then I will forget about it.

I just want to get my music in a legal and honest manner

Thank you for any help

[Rusty]

Try kazaalite. It's an adware-free rip-off of kazaa. I'm not going to try and define it's legal status cos I've given up working out who is sueing whom.

I'm not condoning the taking of bread out of the mouths of struggling musicians, but I'm not keen on lining the pockets of media fat cats either (who have no such qualms about said bread-nabbing).

Or to put it another way: "Legally downloading music deprives this labourer of income".

...And always let your conscience be your guide ;).

Regards,
Rusty.

[echnidna]

Think you can download music for a fee from telstra or bigpond

[gemi_babe]

if you know how to use mIRC then downloading music is a sinch.

But you have to know the program and be in a room full of obsessed music fans who have music on thier own PC's.

You use to be able to do this in the telstra.irc chat site, not sure if its still running though.

good luck!

[macklin]

thank you for your replies.

I tried telstra and big pond however I could not find the artists I wanted
, they all appeared to be in the 90s era.

also went to the Mirc ( internet relay chat) however it seems to be all chat rooms, which is not quite my scene.

Thanks for replies one of the sites had a number of links however I would rather have a recomendation to avoid all the pitfalls with viruses spyware etc.

thank you for replies.

[duckman]

Now to my question, has anybody got a really good site, free from spam, adaware, malware, viruses, where I can do the above downloading. I am more than willing to pay for the downloads, has anybody got a good site possibly in Australia to make it easier to pay for them rather than overseas.

I just want to get my music in a legal and honest manner

Thank you for any help

Charles Wright, the computer columnist with The Age Green Guide wrote about this site last year.
http://www.allofmp3.com/index2.shtml?r=564387741

Like you I've been unable to buy on CD a lot of the music I like and so turned to this site. I've not had any trouble with it.

[Gumby]

www.imesh.com
It's better than kazza

[gemi_babe]

HI Macklin,

Yep, mIRC is all about chat but if you were in the correct place, you type in a code (something like */type artist here) and you would get lists of music that people have on their pc's. Then you would choose which one and start your download.

Its like FTP( i think thats correct)

I did it 5 or so years ago now, and can't really remember just how to do it, but if you found yourself in a room, they would show you how to request music from them.

Not everyones cup of tea, certainly not mine anymore, but it is a good way to find the music that you so long for.

Regards,
Kylie

[ndru]

Peer-to-peer software is OK but Usenet (Newsgroups) is where to look if you want a good range to choose from.

You'll need 2 things:
1. Newsreading/leaching/posting software. Outlook Express is definitely not up to the task. My favourite is Grabit because it is simple and has an inbuilt search function. It doesn't have any adware or spyware, either.

2. A decent usenet service because most Australian ISP's (including Bigpond) don't provide real Usenet services other than for simple text messages and pictures. Astraweb is good because it they have 15 day retention and are is relatively cheap, plust you can pre-pay like you can with a mobile phone. My favourite is Giganews which has a massive 50 day retention and a fast unlimited plan at about the cost of buying one music CD per month.

My policy is to use downloads as a sample only. If I like it I go out an buy it, otherwise I delete it.

[macklin]

Thank you everyone for your replies. Will try ALL of them to see which one has the most of the music that I enjoy.

Thanks again

John Macklin

[Daddles]

For the last twelve months, I've been borrowing CDs from the library and ripping them into mp3. Might be worth having a look there and don't forget, the libraries are interlinked these days so check the catalogue and don't be scared to order the CD in.

Cheers
Richard