# ruckus.com

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruckus-com/441377>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 14, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruckus-com/441377 "2008-03-14T17:01:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruckus-com/441377/1 "2008-03-14T17:01:11Z")

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(The following post has been cleared with the moderators.)

[ruckus.com](http://ruckus.com) distributes music online free of charge to any student with a .edu email address. They have a catalog of around 3,000,000 songs.

There are some annoying ads. And once you’re no longer a student, your songs will no longer play. And you can’t burn the tracks as encoded onto CD.

But I thought some people might be interested to know of the existence of this website. I like it. I do [pandora.com](http://pandora.com), and when I hear something new that I like, I grab the album at ruckus. It’s like magic.

-Kris