Downloading music

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<p>could someone help out a poor clueless parent? I want to download music onto an MP# player I'm getting for Christmas. I'm willing to spend the 99 cents a song to download them from the internet, but I can't figure out where to go. I want to browse by genre (mostly oldies) and be able to listen to a little bit of songs before I buy (you know, Alzeimers). If it could figure out what I like and make suggestions, that would be awesome, but not necessary. So does anyone know of a site so easy to use you would recommend it to your grandmother?</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

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<p>Most would recommend itunes. I'm not sure that they offer oldies, so you might have to go illegal to get those.</p>

<p>Ndbisme, esq.</p>

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<p>definitely itunes (<a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.apple.com/itunes/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

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<p>I want to download onto an MP3 player. Will itunes work if I don't have an ipod?</p>

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<p>yes itunes will work if you dont have an ipod...it works with any mp3 player.</p>

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<p>Don't know much about MP3's either- but all my friends use <a href="http://www.limewire.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.limewire.com&lt;/a> .</p>

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<p>limewire works well but it has spyware</p>

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<p>I usually use Ares even though it has some spyware. Nobody go crazy... I just use it for old soundtrack songs, classical music, and music no one cares about. No pop.</p>

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<p>I use Limewire for rare stuff (not even sold on CDs), and ITunes for almost everything else.</p>

<p>-Limewire has NO spyware
-ITunes rocks even w/o an Ipod</p>

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<p>I recommend Soulseek. No spyware, adware, etc. I think the site is slsknet.org. I'd never use anything else.</p>

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<p>Soulseek is so slow... so slow...</p>

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<p>BitTorrent is the way to go.</p>

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<p>Bearshare.</p>

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<p>itunes for legal downloads is the best, and ares is the best for nonlegal downloads.</p>

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<p>winmx. good if you like nonmainstream music. if you're really into hard to find stuff soulseek is the only way to go. and I'm talking about REALLY hard to find stuff.
the MPAA is starting to crack down on Bittorrent sites, so a lot have been shut down lately.</p>

<p>though if you really want to pay i'd suggest itunes like everybody else, even though it would be more economical to buy the actual CD's from a cheap place like Circuit city and rip them into mp3. you get artwork and bonus stuff, but it is only cheap if you like and actually listen to the whole CD. for singles downloading makes more sense. I would not recommend microsoft's store, as thier operating systems are bad enough. :P</p>

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<p>Bittorrent. Period.</p>

<p>Music, Games, TV Shows, Movies, anything you could possibly want.</p>

<p>I used to use soulseek, but it was much too slow and the user interface too crappy. With bittorrent, I can just leave it on all night and have several movies and full cd's done by the morning. </p>

<p>No spyware either.</p>

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<p>SUPRNOVA.org was shutdown... oh man, my bittorrent buddies, what will we do???</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.torrentreactor.net%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.torrentreactor.net&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.lokitorrent.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.lokitorrent.com&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.elitetorrents.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.elitetorrents.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>bittorent might be too complex and timeconsuming, texas137</p>

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<p>Does anyone use napster? I don't know if iTunes lets you do this, I like how you can subscribe w/ napster and listen to almost all of the tracks in their library for less than $10/month.</p>