zone99 Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 (edited) I'm wondering if anyone else besides me has figured out the BEST free, legal way to obtain music. All you need is a sound card and an internet connection. ........................................................................ What you need to do is find an internet audio stream (such as realplayer or realrhapsody or windows media player or winamp or the band's website or........) and then you open up whatever sound card bundle software came with your card switch record setting to either mixed or record master hit record play the audio stream stop recording when done enjoy legal, high quality (not to mention FAST) way to obtain music. My mom made me call an attorney to find out if it was legal and he told me yes, it was as long as i didn't sell it. Who needs 2 mess around with illegal P2P servers or wait for downloads or search on the various mp3 sites for the file you WANT (i e: mp3shits.com. altavista.net audio search, mp3search.com, espew.com, sirfindalot.com mp3 search, airmp3.com..........) If anyone is interested, my old 16 bit sound card is sitting in the closet and i'll put it on ebay for you. I know so much cuz I might become a recording engineer. Edited June 18, 2005 by zone99 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 or you could use streamripper32... which auto does ID3 tags... or yes, you could do it the hard way you mentioned... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swifty11212 Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 unfortunately it dont always work, winamp used to do that when u used it to record off itunes, but i think apple fixed that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoLoDreaM Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 internet audio streams arent the highest of quality either Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 unfortunately it dont always work, winamp used to do that when u used it to record off itunes, but i think apple fixed that. 493640[/snapback] there is plenty of DRM removal apps out there anyways... I wont name any though... so again, better method not involving SC wins... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 Yeah, I went with big, fast HDs so I could listen to everything as WAVs. With a good soundcard + nice headphones/speakers, it makes all the difference. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 Yeah, I went with big, fast HDs so I could listen to everything as WAVs. With a good soundcard + nice headphones/speakers, it makes all the difference. 493646[/snapback] and why do you use WAV... Im just curious, there are plenty of loseless codecs out... SHN being my personal favorite... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 and actually i donty think it is legal to do it that way. because it was never licenced for you to have but only to use *i know that kinda doesn't make sence the way i worded it* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoLoDreaM Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 makes perfect sense Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zone99 Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 (edited) internet audio streams arent the highest of quality either 493641[/snapback] RealRhapsody, which I used (months and months of free trials) until they got smart on me has EXCELLENT streams The Featured RealAudio streams are excellent (so are most music videos) Also bands' websites feature streaming audio and some are dumb enough to put entire albums on. Once Windows Media Player featured the entire of the Beastie Boys' new album, To the Five Boroughs, and I was ecstatic. Yeah, I went with big, fast HDs so I could listen to everything as WAVs. With a good soundcard + nice headphones/speakers, it makes all the difference. 493646[/snapback] Download.com has great free wav to mp3 converters and actually i donty think it is legal to do it that way. because it was never licenced for you to have but only to use *i know that kinda doesn't make sence the way i worded it* 493654[/snapback] I called an atterney that dealt with technology and copyrights. This is one of the very few legal ways to bootleg. Edited June 18, 2005 by zone99 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hienrich Jager Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 Or, you could browse over to www.epitonic.com. That is a really cool site. Hienrich Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoLoDreaM Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 when a band puts their whole album on their site, which happens quite often, i believe you should have full right to download and burn 1000000000 cd's and even sell them if u want... it was GIVEN to you Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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