Free Music Download Sites

[Sandowneagle]

I'm sure there is a thread on this but I can't find it. Can anybody recommend good music download sites that are FOC.
Thanks

[Latvian]

www.slsk.org
www.kazaa.com - though get kazaa lite...

[Shoreditch CPFC]

whats teh difference between Kazaa lite and Kazaa. Not heard of slsk before - is it better then winmx ?

[Sunny Fan]

I use slsk and it's very good once yuo get used to the interface. Free, large body of music, no pop-up ads, no spyware software that others like to use.

[Del Gland]

slsk is the best for dance related music by a mile. WinMX is also a good source

[Latvian]

I think with Kazaa they nick some bandwidth with Kazaa Lite they dont...

[Twyford Bee]

Kazaa has spyware and other programs tacked onto it like Gator, Kazaalite has been altered so that it doesn't.

And just as a reminder:
http://www.psychedelicatessen.net/httt/mp3.jpg

[Latvian]

:eek: noooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[RDSdaEAGLE]

Originally posted by Twyford Bee
Kazaalite has spyware and other programs tacked onto it like Gator, Kazaalite has been altered so that it doesn't.

And just as a reminder:
http://www.psychedelicatessen.net/httt/mp3.jpg

Don't you mean Kazaa has been altered so it doesn't have spyware...which is Kazaalite? :confused:

[we_8_brighton]

Watch out with kazaa though , i had it on my old pc and it slows everything down and the screen often freezes because of it

[Twyford Bee]

Originally posted by RDSdaEAGLE
Don't you mean Kazaa has been altered so it doesn't have spyware...which is Kazaalite? :confused:
Yeah that's what I mean, oops, I'll edit the original post. Kazaa bad, Kazaalite good.

[mike]

If you log on to CNET.com there are loads of fileshare sites you could try out and also check out other users opinions, loads of free downloads as well, try download accelerator, it does what it says on the tin!
Click below to get started:

http://download.com.com/3150-2166-0.html?tag=dir

[Twyford Bee]

People seem to like Soulseek a lot at the moment, you can look at what individual people are using (unlike Kazaa) and it has none of that spyware stuff with it either. It's great if there's one band you like and you can find/establish a 'room' for fans to meet in, then there's loads of stuff available for you to get hold of. This is only in my (extremely limited) experience.

[Geezer]

Originally posted by Twyford Bee
People seem to like Soulseek a lot at the moment, you can look at what individual people are using (unlike Kazaa) and it has none of that spyware stuff with it either. It's great if there's one band you like and you can find/establish a 'room' for fans to meet in, then there's loads of stuff available for you to get hold of. This is only in my (extremely limited) experience.

In my probally even more limited experience of soulseek, I've found Kazaa much quicker to download.

[Aki Aki Aki]

I believe www.limewire.com is very good.

[Wedgy]

I'm lost :(

[Adrian]

I'm very keen to find a good site - mainly for "gap-filling", ie obtaining those tracks that have been annoyingly left off albums etc. I still buy CDs and would not want a collection built wholly of "blank" CDs with no sleeve notes and so on.

It might be useful to have a section on the BBS just for music-related chit-chat as there's a huge number of musos on the boards. We could then make the download thread sticky as there are some useful links on here.....

[Twyford Bee]

Originally posted by Adrian
I'm very keen to find a good site - mainly for "gap-filling", ie obtaining those tracks that have been annoyingly left off albums etc. I still buy CDs and would not want a collection built wholly of "blank" CDs with no sleeve notes and so on.
That's what I do, I've only ever downloaded one complete album.

I think a music forum would be a good idea.

I'll also give a shout to DC++, a hub client that's great if you have a fast connection, and gets better and better the more you have available to share, since you can use hubs with more people on them.

[sydney eagle]

I miss audiogalaxy:sob: :sob: :sob:

[Daniel_Nash]

I popped back to the Audiogalaxy site the other day, lots of people moaning about how crap it had become. Saying it had "died".

:(

[Geezer]

Kazaa is still the proverbial daddy in my book. Apart from if you are looking for Bucks Fizz- Land of makebelieve.

I had a copy somewhere at work so I downloaded one for home and had to get 4 copies to find one of good quality.

[Twyford Bee]

Well Audiogalaxy did die, didn't it? When the RIAA moved in and blocked every song.

People seem to be saying Soulseek is the best thing since that.

[hyper1987]

is morpheus any gd ive heard about it but not sure what its like

[Daniel_Nash]

Morpheus was good, but then the interface became very much hard work!!! So Kazaa, which was effectively the same, took over.

Soulseek seems to be the next big thing.

[hyper1987]

cheers yeah kazaa is good bt it always f**ks up my computeer it try to hack in

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

If we are doing RIP's let not forget the Daddy of them all... Napster :sob:

[Daniel_Nash]

A true loss to society. Partly due to Metallica's Lars Ulrich! :(

[Tony Collins]

:hi: :hi: kazaa.com not too bad anything from rolf harris to led zep :p :p