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Stiff_Cookie

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Has anyone bought music from ********.com? I was trying to find a site that I could buy specific songs that I like instead of getting the whole album and only listening to a few songs.

Anyways, I came across ********.com and it offer really cheap songs and has gotten some great reviews from sites like
http://www.thetechguide.com/reviews/********/
and
http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3info.htm

My question is on the legality. ********.com says they pay the copyright holders but one site (http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/********.asp) mentioned a lot of legal issues and suggested not to use the site.

Any ideas?

EDIT: I am guessing by the many stars I see that this site might not be looked on favourably.
 
Most likely, understandably really as I doubt Spie wants to get into any trouble. Have been warned about talking about private game servers too etc. Found the url anyway through the review and no I haven't used them :o Sorry :p
 
Could try somewhere like eMusic.
Does DRM free downloads, and also you get 25 songs free when you first register iirc. Though i have never used the web site before, i discovered it through an article on wired about iTunes DRM free music.
 
I would only buy music if it's DRM free. I'm not going to distribrute bought music, so why should I be anally raped by studios with locked in format? I would it in DRM free, FLAC.

Just buy the album on CD, it'll work out similar price and you can rip it yourself. Plus you have the original, unlike downloaded version only.

Also it's not like you have a "catalogue" of purchased music, ie if you bought 100 albums from itunes, HD went down- can you redownload these for free? If not total waste of time and money.
 
OK. I'm terrified to click "Upgrade My Songs" in iTunes Plus because I only want to upgrade 5 songs and I have about £25 worth on there. Will it automatically download all of them or ask me which ones first?
 
the original website you posted will soon be closed i think, visa and mastercard have already stoped people using cards to buy from there.

my opinion on itunes is that songs are to expensive for something you can't physically hold, no cd costs, no printing costs, no jewel case costs, no distribution costs, no shop markup with the overheads that come with owning a shop and staffing it. rant over
 
Although it is looking more promising with iTunes Plus. The songs are well catalogued, well organised, high quality and DRM free. Perfect for any digital collection.

I always go out and buy the CDs of my favourite bands, or just CDs which I consider damn good albums, but otherwise I tend to buy 2-3 "chart" songs a week off iTunes. Likewise with albums, if the chart song is really good I order the single from HMV.
 
Tommy B said:
Although it is looking more promising with iTunes Plus. The songs are well catalogued, well organised, high quality and DRM free. Perfect for any digital collection.
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Is the format open source? If it's not you're locked to Apple software.
 
Used to use ******** but heard of legal implications about it and supposedly it's about as legal as torrents or RS warez. Was cheap and ran off Russian servers, so they could technically get away with hosting the files.

You would be aswell signing up to RS.
 
As an experiment to see if I can convert them to anything?

All I wanted to know is whether Apple prevented you from converting the files. I could do it to MP3/WAV/whatever.

edit: there you go, worked just as well to MP3.
 
Tommy B said:
As an experiment to see if I can convert them to anything?

All I wanted to know is whether Apple prevented you from converting the files. I could do it to MP3/WAV/whatever.

edit: there you go, worked just as well to MP3.
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Ahhh sorry, thats good, does it strip out the information when you convert them?
 
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