Legal Downloads?
 

Does anyone know where I can download mp3s legally, but without copy protection so I can play them on my mp3 player? I've come across one site, but you had to pay a monthly fee. I just want a site like itunes or HMV that I can just pay to download tracks when I want, that I can actually listen to! I find it really frustrating that I can't seem to download songs legally because I don't have an Ipod or a mp3 player from HMV. (Seriously, is someone trying to force me into illegal downloading lol?)

Any help much appreciated!!

mi|kshake~

you can still download mp3 from Itunes and use and ITunes ripper to make the songs playable on another mp3 player ... with that the copy protections goes puuf too

yes and yes ... that's all I'm saying :roflmao

LMAO!!!! austin don't say that about urself. lol

Maybe Urge or Napster.

Do you have to rip the iTunes tracks to a CD first?

nope ... these programs just delete everything that comes with the mp3 files from iTunes such as copy protection and comments and stuff like that

I can't find any freeware to do it! It's driving me nuts!

I use NoteBurner for my iTunes stuff. You can get it *ahem* for free. It's a virtual drive, that burns the files of your playlist to it, and then encodes them into MP3. I use it with iTunes. So, then you can use iTunes! more detials etc on their website.

Thank you so much! This has been bugging me forever you don't even know. :laugh

LAWL I know how you feel. I died when I found Sound Taxi, but was so IRKED when it only converted the first 30 seconds. :grumpy

*cough*get noteburner from torrents*cough*

I bet that cough was illegal lol

legal downloads????????????? LOL

anyway a simple solution suggested by another AHS member was to burn the mp3 with coppyright protection onto a cd, then rip another mp3 from it.

Some albums are now available on itunes as "itunes plus", meaning they have no copy protection and are 256 kbps...they're $.30 more, though. To get them to show up you have to go into your profile and check a box that says "show itunes plus".

Or you could just wait a year or two :P...Steve Jobs really wants iTunes music to be DRM free since that's what the consumers want...but the music suits do not, of course.