One of my best friends opposes downloading (he calls it "stealing") music without paying for it so much that he won't accept, nor listen to CDs I burn from my ill got goods. This guy is not a prig at all, in fact, he's one of maybe four non-family members I'd give my wallet (ok, my rubber band bundle) without counting it. My way of saying I believe in this guy's opinion, for the most part. So I've been thinking hard about this - hard for me, anyway. To the point I thought I could smell grease burning. So I stopped. Abruptly.
I was an early subscriber to MusicMatch, and, happily for me, at least in this instance, paid for lifetime upgrades. I really like their player, their on-line radio is excellent when RadioParadise gets on a Grateful Dead kick or something, and now they have ninety-nine cent downloads. They don't have everything I want, of course (Incendio's Black Opal, Eels Birds), but I've cleaned out both Kazaas, BearShare, Grokster, etc. and am now pure as the driven snow.
Am I going to delete the +/- 450 tunes I stole?
Let's change that to "pure as the driven slush".
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All I hear are good things about iTunes. You can download songs for $1 apiece, I think, and rip all of your CDs to mp3. And you, sir, have a lot of CDs.
I'd also like to take this opportunity to give a shout out to MusicNet, which is AOL's proprietary online music program. I use this daily and have found a lot of great stuff.
Wooooo. I just got Itunes since Windows Media Player won't let me save as MP3. I'll let you know in a couple of weeks after I load up the big stack of CD's. That MusicMatch used to annoy me with it's festering about my system, and Itumes seems a little less invasive. Now if I could just get the digital signal to my receiver . . .
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