Best Legal Musicdownloading Program

[fishkins]

What is the best, cheapest music downloading thing out there. I know of iTunes and Napster but I wanted to get your guys professional opinion. Legal too.

[Foxphere]

Uh oh..sounds illegal to me. And I highly doubt you're 19.

[Taylor]

iTunes... they're all around the same price, but itunes is bloody easy to use. Too bad they sell you .AAC files, not MP3 :(
So I guess napster, but I've never used it

[grandmapotatoes]

Kazaa Lite K++

You don't need anything else. No spyware or ads.

[Sir-Tanuki]

But kazza doesnt give you legal "ownership" of the music files you download there

[LiquidMayCry]

Limewire........................Pro. Thats legal isnt it? if Not i perfer itunes

[<deleted>]

Bearshare, look for it on Google, it's the best.

[jimgray]

Meh, where's the fun in legal music downloading?

[Sir-Tanuki]

At 5/20/05 06:55 PM, Liquidmaycry wrote: Limewire........................Pro. Thats legal isnt it? if Not i perfer itunes

Yes i share your luff of limewire...
But Still it doesnt give you legal ownership.
And btw nor does bearshare.

[fishkins]

yeah, limewire bearsheare and kazaa are illegal. You people arent a very big help

[Sir-Tanuki]

At 5/20/05 07:01 PM, fishkins wrote: yeah, limewire bearsheare and kazaa are illegal. You people arent a very big help

Throw Morpheous in that.
And the programs arent illegal its what you DO with them that is.
If you can go without having the mp3 file get itunes. If not id sugjest napster.
(tho there IS a certain program out there that grabs the file from the itunes dl while still in mp3 format before converted but not allowed to say anything in here =P)

[Haravikk]

iTunes, I tried looking for "So long & thanks for all the fish" (from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) on p2p networks but all the hosts were crap.

iTunes Music Store is very easy to use, and is now available in loads of countries. If you're not using iTunes for managing your music then you should be.

Also, unless I'm very much mistaken, ALL legal music download places give you the files in some proprietory format with digital rights protection (ie can only have it on so many computers at once etc).
So if you're going to get stuck with a proprietory format, it mays as well be AAC because it's around two thirds the size of an mp3 for the same quality (or higher quality for the same size, depends how you look at it). Meanwhile Microshaft's solution is some WIndows Media format but Windows Media is typically very poor.
Plus iTMS is one of the few that lets you burn your downloaded music to CD, despite this actually being the easy way around the protection (burn then import).