Music downloaders - How do I do this???

In My Humble Opinion
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I need to provide music for a outside event, perhaps a hours worth, maybe 2. The type of music is not in my collection, so I will have to acquire it.

Besides the fun of constructing a light weight sound system, which I can easily handle, I need to get that music.

At this time all I have is my computer w/ a CD burner, and to play it a ‘walkman style CD player’ or a 64 mb MP3 player - I will rig up some speaker system, I don’t have a problem with that.

OK here is the question, where do I get the music? I am looking for a site that I can download music and can be easily burnt to CD or if that MP3 player has enough storage to upload it to that device. Worst comes to worst I can do the D to A conversion but I’d rather avoid that.

I know that Wal$mart has a music download service, but I will never consider them (personal belief that their buying from China supports the Chinese military), so please don’t direct me there.

OK now that all the MODS have read this and got their britches in a bunch, let me say to ALL that I want to do this in ways that don’t violate the rules set forth in the TOS of the SDMS and in ways that are currently accepted as ‘legal’ in the USA. And now that all MODS have read this they can help me also :smiley:

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iTunes.

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MSN also has a decent enough music download service.

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IANAL, but it sounds like you’re acquiring the music for public performance. I doubt that the typical license for downloaded music includes those rights.

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(link removed)

It is a russian site but it has all the American music you want for just 10 cents a song.

It’s so good it makes people wonder if it is legal (it should be, incase you were wondering). :cool:

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All the lyrics are in Russian, though.

Just kidding.

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Private group on private property, just a long way from any structure.

Lakai, I am not looking to skirt the rules and am willing to pony up the going rate for a few songs, the thing is I want it easy to do, with the tools I have at hand.

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correction the quote above was by Dewey Finn.

Just to add Lakai, I realise that that site most likely sells MP3’s which would make it easy to do, but just to clarify my above statment, it’s not that I’m not looking to skirt the rules but I don’t want to skirt the rules.

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I’m somehow getting the idea that you don’t want to skirt the rules. :smiley:

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lakai, there was a big brouhaha about this site recently. The decision was that it is likely not legal under U.S. law. I’ll try to dig up the thread.

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In addition to iTunes, Yahoo Music, Rhapsody, Napster, and Virgin all offer what you are looking for. It would probably be easier to burn the disc is all the tunes came from the same service. I’ve only done it with Yahoo and Rhapsody, and both times I used the CD burning utility built into their software. I suppose it could be done with a third program like Media Player if for some reason you have to get songs from different services.

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I second the iTunes suggestion. It makes it very easy to burn CDs and the prices are cheap and it is legit. If you don’t mind most of your dollars going to those crooks at the RIAA, but then, there’s not much choice is there? iTunes also has a great selection. with 64MB of space you aren’t going to get too many MP3s on that player, and certainly not 2 hours worth. every album on iTunes is $9.99 which is damn cheap, and most singles are 99 cents. You can buy them singly if you want but the discounts comes when you buy the entire album. You buy the stuff. It downloads, then you make a playlist for each cd you’d like to burn, then you drag the songs over from your “Purchased Music” folder. Then just click burn.