mp3 download sites

suspended childhood · Post by **suspended childhood** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:43 pm

Usually Im on Beatport getting my stuff.

My boss asked me if I knew of a download site to get MP3s that arent in some weird AAC or windows media format with some lock on how many times you can copy/ move/ burn.

Anyone know of a good site that has all the genres the average person would want to download music. It would have radio songs, rock,...bla bla bla.... in MP3 format?

Suggestions?

(yes, a legal site please)

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:54 pm

I heard emusic is good. Also if you buy music from itunes just burn it to a CD and encode it back to mp3 and all the security bullshit is removed.

suspended childhood · Post by **suspended childhood** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:10 pm

converting it back from the cd through iTunes?

iTunes will strip away the security stuff from the AAC format, or do I need another app to do that?

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:23 pm

When you burn the initial CD it doesn't copy that stuff over. All you need to do in your preferences is set the encoding type to mp3 and all the crap will be gone.

Spindrift · Post by **Spindrift** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:24 pm

beats me wrote:I heard emusic is good. Also if you buy music from itunes just burn it to a CD and encode it back to mp3 and all the security bullshit is removed.

And you'll also get a lot of artefacts from transcoding as a bonus.

TeachONE · Post by **TeachONE** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:43 pm

beats me wrote:I heard emusic is good. Also if you buy music from itunes just burn it to a CD and encode it back to mp3 and all the security bullshit is removed.

Emusic is GREAT!!!!........ If you like independent artists you don't hear on the radio all that much... It's pretty much dedicated to indy labels and underground artists. There's a bunch of ish from the Hip-Hop crews that are regionally popular (crap like E-40 from the Bay Area, Dip Set from NYC, and Little John from the South), but if you like ish like that, or some of the better underground ish you'll like it. I've been a member for a minute and I like it because it does have some really good old Jazz and Soul on it.

Peace

blank · Post by **blank** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:47 pm

Personnaly I buy from bleep.com a lot, tons of great stuff if you dig avaible there.