Unrestricted mp3 sites
 

Does anyone know of any unrestricted mp3 download sites? I don't want to be told I can only play my music on my Ipod (a la itunes), I don't want to be told I can't make a copy of what I've bought and I don't want to pay a monthly subscription. I don't mind paying for music but without the restrictions.

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http://www.allofmp3.com/ might be unrestricted and VERY cheap. I think the site is currently legal too.

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Don't be so sure about that http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...php?t=33602360

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Well the music industry don't seem o have managed to close it down for being illegal so they've got the credit card companies to stop processing payments. :erm:

It's my ball and I'm taking it home. :rolleyes:

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Thanks for the info. :)

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Yeah I thought of allofmp3.com but my card is going to be declined with them :(

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You could buy the CD - just think it also means you have a backup in case your hard disk crashes or your MP3 player is stolen too.

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Because there are very few albums (and they achieve classic status) on which all the tracks are worth having...

And CD singles are a rip off...

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There is Emusic. Their downloads are plain mp3 but its a subscription service. Not exactly what you were looking for but probably worth a look.

EDIT: You could also try Bleep.com

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HHHmmm although I'm not suggesting this is an ideal thing to do (as you DO loose a bit of quality)... But itunes (and presumably most/some other paid for ones) will let you burn your purchases to CD. At which point you could re-rip then into non protected mp3.

Anyway I thought it was worth mentioning as I burn a copy off onto cd of everything I buy from itunes, just in case.

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I'm assuming you're only interested in legal solutions to your problem, which is why you're not looking for your favourite music rips on BitTorrent or some similar p2p warez network? :D

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Come now - even if he WAS interested in obtaining music that way it would be illegal and as such not suitable for discussion here anyway ;) :D

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News from a couple of weeks ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6083110.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QTFairUse

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if you wanted to try emusic for nowt:

http://www.emusic.com/promo/new25free/index.html

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You could always download the iTunes-infected music, burn it to a re-writeable CD, and then rip it. Jobs can't stop you doing that (well, maybe in the next iTunes update).

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iTunes AAC is a lossy compression though. If you put that on a CD and then rip it to MP3 you lose quality twice from the original recording. It would work, but the audio quality would be less than ideal.

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Not that I pointed that out back in post 10 or anything eh l) :)

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. ;)

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:sulk:

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Awwwww