What site is the best for music downloads?
I want to download a site so I can download music and videos, but there are many and I don’t want to end up with a ton of viruses. Can anyone help me? Thanks
Written on January 25, 2010 – 6:26 am | by Music Fanatic |
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3 Responses to “What site is the best for music downloads?”
By LovingHimMore&More on Jan 25, 2010 | Reply
i use http://www.aimini.com
By Tyler on Jan 25, 2010 | Reply
use torrents or you will get viruses
By Diana B on Jan 25, 2010 | Reply
Downlaod a site? You don’t download a website. You can download media or other data.
You can get videos from Youtube – use a program like Tubesucker to download the video itself as an FLV file.
To get music, your choices are varied, and each comes with its share of risk and cost.
You can pay for the music – it’s legal (though that doesn’t help if you’re caught uploading the music to somebody else), and not all that expensive. Problems include limited transferability of the music due to DRM.
You can download using torrents or over a peer-share network. To do either, you’ll need to install some kind of client software (there are several networks, and may be numerous different client programs). The risks: the client may contain malware. You can minimize the risk of malware by getting the program from the publisher, but not eliminate the possibility that the authorized program is also infected (or that you’ve unwiitingly mistaken a hacker’s page for the publishers). You may also pick up some malicious code just by visiting the program’s page (assuming it is the program’s page). Because these programs connect you to a network of other users, you will be expected to have some media to share beforehand. Also, there is no way to guarantee the safety and quality of the downloaded media.
If you must go the peer-share route, I suggest foregoing Limewire (and its variants) and choosing WinMX or eMule. I’ve been using those programs for years and almost always get what I want. I’ve managed to avoid viruses (many LW users say otherwise) and when I finally tried LW, I discovered it was no better than my programs of choice.
You can also get music by logging onto internet radio stations. These will stream music through your soundcard. You can use any number of free programs to save the stream as an mp3 or a wav file. Audacity will record streaming media, and it can edit the stream to make copies of that stream containing any music you want.