How do you get your music?

[BoyEngland]

Originally Posted by Midnight_Walker

Because computers break. Ipods break, and external hard drives break.

And CD's don't get scratched, snapped, or otherwise damaged?

A lot of legit websites now let you re-download music that you have downloaded legally if you lose it. It's a pain in the arse but you get there eventually.

Not to turn this into a CD Vs Download debate, but there is probably an equal number of disadvantages for both.

On-topic: I still think that YouTube is the answer to most people's music needs if they are simply listening to it on a computer. If you are sat on your computer, go to YouTube and create an account. From there you can search for whatever you want, add it to a custom playlist, and just play them all. You could have a playlist for each genre, artist, whatever you want.

You only need to keep your web browser window open while they are playing but it's a free and legal (illegal stuff is taken down quickly) way to listen to music. Because the playlist is online, you can use the playlist from wherever you can get on (and log-in to) YouTube.

[/youtubefanboyism]

[murqq]

lol did you seriously tell him to goto youtube to listen to music?

[OME6A]

Originally Posted by murqq

lol did you seriously tell him to goto youtube to listen to music?

I kinda thought the same thing.

I think telling someone that YouTube is a viable means for listening to music, is like telling me that watching oldschool scrambled cable is a great way to watch porn.

[E. Writer]

Originally Posted by OME6A

My radars are detecting massive amounts of awesome

[murqq]

im a little upset im not in that sig e, atleast put me in the background son

[Midnight_Walker]

Originally Posted by BoyEngland

And CD's don't get scratched, snapped, or otherwise damaged?

Well, I'm not a 4 year old child; I take excellent care of my CDs. If they're not in a device they're in their case. Not scattered around on top of each other or left on the floor or something, so even my oldest CDs are in pretty much mint condition. Sure, sometimes something bad happens that's not in my control. And if a CD that I have bought and paid for gets scratched in a bad CD drive or something like that I'll have absolutely no qualms about downloading the contents of the CD in a torrent or something. I believe I'm thoroughly entitled to do this though. Or I'll just burn a CD using the contents of my mp3 player. Saying that, It's only happened once, and it was due to a faulty CD drive shattering my CD!

Having a big CD collection is about a million times safer than having a big MP3 collection - with a PC, ipod and hard drive you have 3 points of failure. With a reasonably sized CD collection aswell you'd have about 303. Even my bad luck isn't going to beat those odds!

I'll just pretend that you didn't say anything else in your post. I think it's better for everyone :p

[kellydee]

everything is not safe with me. I tend to ruin things

but I usually would buy a CD. Or just download and make a back up CD. I do not listen to too much music though, so it is not a big thing to me.

[tina.anderson]

I listen to a lot of music, but 95% of it is from cd's, while the other 5% is from my laptop which has songs on it that I ripped from cd's I own. I'm not saying I think downloading music is wrong or anything, I just don't really have much of a need for it. I have all the music I like on cd's and I don't listen to new music except for when a classic rock band makes a new album.

[Swiss Miss]

I have massive amounts of MP3's... most have been acquired through BitTorrent technology, otherwise, my friends send me lots through AIM file transfers, and back in the day I used to use Usenet news servers -- which remains the fastest and easiest way to download... but I enjoy the organization and quality control of BitTorrents these days.