Free Music Downloads

[deadman]

Does anyone know a site where i can download music quickly and free??

thanx

dm

[edd]

WWW.limewire.com

Its free

[terdsak_12]

Limewire, the best!!!! However done to death on this site. Do a search.

[muldoon]

Clarify : music that is actually "free" , or music that is "not free" but is copied and made available for download by a 3rd party or application tool ?

[Wolfie]

You wouldnt be looking for illegal music downloads now, would you?

Cos if you were, us mods would have to delete this thread, issue warnings etc... and nobody wants that, do they?

[cdnvic]

Limewire is a filesharing program that runs on the gnutella network. You can look for anything from shareware, music downloads with or without licence, video, photos, etc. What you get on it, and it's legality in your neck of the woods is up to you to deal with. Limewire is just a piece of software. There's the shareware version which works great and the turbo-charged pro version that costs about $20.

Most of the commercial providers of music downloads have some freebies on their sites, and some of them give you a bunch of free downloads as a signup bonus when you take out a subscription.

cv

[LivinLOS]

allofMP3 is nearly free and legal (based in Russia and thier laws say you dont have to pay royalties) if not morally correct...

Its a full store typeprofessional website.. I dont use it but it seems pretty slick.. even can get losslessly encoded stuff there IIRC..

[Shivek]

I was using bittorrent one day and couldnt find the music i wanted. Then i found LimeWire Pro which gives u all songs. From old to new, rap to rock. Its the best for music!

[muldoon]

I prefer to pop into the record store if I happen to be passing by.Quicker than downloading, buy legal cd's, preferably SACD or DVD audio if content is available, make backups with FLAC lossless compression. Sure, it is not free, but that doesn't bother me in the slightest.

[bartender100]

Paul McCartney has a new album out,Chaos And Creation In The Backyard,getting good reviews,some say his best for 30 years.I'm in the process of getting it.

[melus]

Yes, this is a great album. I am currently downloading it - but not on LimeWire Pro.

Edited September 16, 2005 by melus

[LivinLOS]

I prefer to pop into the record store if I happen to be passing by.Quicker than downloading, buy legal cd's, preferably SACD or DVD audio if content is available, make backups with FLAC lossless compression. Sure, it is not free, but that doesn't bother me in the slightest.

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I have a 640 GB RAID array storing my lossless collection in APE format Lossless...

I also store DTS CD's but dont have any SACD..

That was one thing I noticed about allofMP3 they actually offer lossless downloads.. never tried them (speed issues) but it seemed impressive..

[britmaveric]

Anyone have the turbo charged version of limewire. Wondering if it actually makes much difference?

[Jockstar]

I use Limewire. I really like it. But there is one thing that annoys me. Its if you put the album name and artist in. It says your search is to specific. &lt;deleted&gt;?

[Shivek]

I use Limewire. I really like it. But there is one thing that annoys me. Its if you put the album name and artist in. It says your search is to specific. &lt;deleted&gt;?

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Yes, also some songs i download are corrupt and not full. But its still the best.

[johnboi]

Anyone have the turbo charged version of limewire. Wondering if it actually makes much difference?

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Cant say whether its much over the shareware version but its pretty good. Beats kazaa hands down.

[RDN]

I use Bearshare.

[chaiyapoon]

I have been loading up my 200gb external hard drive with mp3 music files and my own huge CD collection its now nearly half full so should be enough for my next 6 month trip.None from downloads all off DVDrs.So much more portable than the huge numbers of CDs and cassettes I used to have to take.

[lomatopo]

For those who use Limewire or BearShare do you have problems with malware? Last year, on an old PC I ran BearShare and it had some very nasty malware, one of which was challenging to remove and it would open new browser windows every 10 seconds.

[britmaveric]

Use limewire - very rare, but norton catches it, so no harm no foul.

[lomatopo]

Use limewire - very rare, but norton catches it, so no harm no foul.

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Just to clarify, I did not mean encountering malware/viruses/spyware etc. when downloading content files but rather upon installing Limewire or BearShare itself. That is, malware bundled into the Limewire/BearShare application.

[britmaveric]

Limewire doesnt have anything that I am aware of - strictly p2p unlike Kazza!

[lovejoy]

try soulseek.com its really good . not availible for macs

a lot of stuff on there

[Totster]

Use limewire - very rare, but norton catches it, so no harm no foul.

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Just to clarify, I did not mean encountering malware/viruses/spyware etc. when downloading content files but rather upon installing Limewire or BearShare itself. That is, malware bundled into the Limewire/BearShare application.

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Well .. thats funny.. i just dowloaded Limewire and the AV software didn't pick anything up... when I downloaded certain other ones the AV software went loopy...

totster

[cdnvic]

Microsoft antispyware still sees Limewire as spyware, but thats MS.

Brit, my neighbour says he gets almost 50% faster downloads and much better search results on Pro. Alot less "need more sources".

cv

[likite]

Thanks all posters. Downloaded Limewire and I now have access to all the oldies which I thought I wouldn't hear again in LOS.

It real is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RDN]

For those who use Limewire or BearShare do you have problems with malware? Last year, on an old PC I ran BearShare and it had some very nasty malware, one of which was challenging to remove and it would open new browser windows every 10 seconds.

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Bearshare has 2 (I think only 2) "malwares" that get picked up by my anti-spyware s/w: "whenU" and "savenow" (or something like that). But my firewall s/w - ZoneAlarm - stops them communicating with the Internet, so I don't worry about them.

[Hans Brix]

I used to use Lime wire and was happy with it; then one day I could open the application any longer. I tried uninstall and reinstall and same problem. No idea what is wrong. anyone have any ideas?

[cdnvic]

Could it be a time limited shareware or beta version from the earlier days? Try downloading the current version and installing.

cv

I used to use Lime wire and was happy with it; then one day I could open the application any longer. I tried uninstall and reinstall and same problem. No idea what is wrong. anyone have any ideas?

[Godders]

Help! Got through to the limewire site, but every time I tried to download either Basic or Pro version got redirected to home page. No option to Continue. Is Limiwire offline now or am I, a computer dinosaur, just being more reptilianly dumb than usual?!