Legal music download services

[Yippee38]

A buddy of mine has two daughters who have been using Limewire to illegally download music. He wants to legalize them (and get all the virii/backdoors/trojans off his computers). He is looking for recommendations on download services. Since I don't download, I was wondering if any of you who do would be willing to share your experiences with the legal download services you use. What's the cost? What do you like about it? What do you not like about it? etc.

Thanks

[Diamond45]

SkiBumMSP and I have used eMusic for quite a while.. You get a set number of downloads per month depending on which plan you subscribe to.

http://www.emusic.com

Which reminds me... I've tagged several albums for download and my subscription renewed.. time to get more metal!

[Wishmaster]

I haven't tried using it, yet, but a friend has been recommending spiralfrog.com as a good place.

--Mike

[shreddy]

I dont think you can buy songs from this but they have quite a few great prog bands on it and it seems like its free unless you want to get a standalone unit for your house.

Check out the Andromeda station it has a, Vanden Plas on it and lots of other great bands.


www.pandora.com

[sh0kr0k]

I believe you can upgrade to a paid service status on Limewire, but I'm really not sure what that would entail. iTunes is my favorite.

[shreddy]

Um I really forgot how awesome Pandora was go on there and sign up its free but the way it works is advertising you create a station based on an artist say Dream Theater and it will generate a play list of all these songs by DT and similar artists its a good way to waste time at work. The only thing is you can only skip so many songs in an hour, and what you can do is create a personal playlist and start adding songs from other playists to it and share it with friends not to bad for free.

It does provide links to a couple sites to purchase the songs too.

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

Originally Posted by shreddy

Um I really forgot how awesome Pandora was go on there and sign up its free but the way it works is advertising you create a station based on an artist say Dream Theater and it will generate a play list of all these songs by DT and similar artists its a good way to waste time at work. The only thing is you can only skip so many songs in an hour, and what you can do is create a personal playlist and start adding songs from other playists to it and share it with friends not to bad for free.

It does provide links to a couple sites to purchase the songs too.

Sounds similar to Last.fm, which I like a lot, but don't use nearly as often as I wish I could. (Damn work computer, not letting me download the player application.)

[Wholesome Annie]

I use itunes. $.99 a song or a music video for $1.99. Even as a poor college student I don't mind paying for it. And I can honestly say I've never had a problem with any of the music i've downloaded, nor do I think i've gotten any viruses from it....although my comp was acting funny the other day...hmmm.....

[sh0kr0k]

Originally Posted by shreddy

Um I really forgot how awesome Pandora was go on there and sign up its free but the way it works is advertising you create a station based on an artist say Dream Theater and it will generate a play list of all these songs by DT and similar artists its a good way to waste time at work. The only thing is you can only skip so many songs in an hour, and what you can do is create a personal playlist and start adding songs from other playists to it and share it with friends not to bad for free.

It does provide links to a couple sites to purchase the songs too.

Sounds closer to Yahoo!Music/LAUNCHcast, which I also enjoy. Only took, oh, two years to get to ratings master on my station It's a great way to find many new bands, and dig up stuff from your old favorites. I can't listen to it anymore because it's not supported for Mac OS, but at least I don't have to worry about viruses

[MetalRose]

Originally Posted by Wholesome Annie

I use itunes. $.99 a song or a music video for $1.99. Even as a poor college student I don't mind paying for it. And I can honestly say I've never had a problem with any of the music i've downloaded, nor do I think i've gotten any viruses from it....although my comp was acting funny the other day...hmmm.....

True, they also have some albums for less than you would pay to pick one up at the store. I bought HIM's Razorblade Kiss for around $6 for the full album. To me, that was the right price. I didn't know if I liked them enough to pick up the full album at the store for $13-18, but didn't want to get just one or two songs, I really wanted to give them a fair chance. So for the price of about 50 cents per song, I just got the whole album.

-Metal