music How do you get your MP3s?

[FirePuppy 621]

Before 2003, the only way people could get their songs from the Internet were P2P websites, like Napster. To fight this illegal activity, Apple introduced the iTunes Store, allowing people to download songs at a price of a dollar apiece.

Here's the question: How many of you do it the latter way, and how many of you still do it the old way?

[Envy 5,992]

I get my music from iTunes and importing CDs. Every once in a while there will be something available only through Amazon MP3, so I'll purchase it through there, but that's rare.

[No Longer Here 15]

I was cheap, I didn't had a iPod. I didn't use iTunes. I got my music using LimeWire.

[CypherHoof 26,479]

2 hours ago, FirePuppy said:

Before 2003, the only way people could get their songs from the Internet were P2P websites, like Napster. To fight this illegal activity, Apple introduced the iTunes Store, allowing people to download songs at a price of a dollar apiece.

Here's the question: How many of you do it the latter way, and how many of you still do it the old way?

Wouldn't touch an iTunes download if you paid me

I still like having physical albums, so I buy the media on Amazon, then can download the mp3s immediately from Autorip. Most of my media is still in shrinkwrap (its not like I have an actual CD player I would play them on :D)

[cuteycindyhoney 13,282]

I rip my own CDs for the most part. (And CDs I check out from the library) While I download a lot of video, the music industry scares me. For the most part I don't download music at all.

[TBD 17,226]

Since I don't own smartphone, I still buy CD  and use this old MP3 player to add my music in. 

[Thuja 3,658]

I like to buy most of my music from iTunes or Bandcamp these days since I no longer have a computer that can read my old CDs anymore.

[DixonTheAdversary 1,631]

I import them from CD's if I feel like, though I usually don't have any use for them.

[Angle Alastor 3,804]

mostly from itunes or YouTube :3

[Denim&Venöm 16,444]

None of the above. I do it via the classic method. Compact discs. That's right. I still do physical media. It's a good idea to have a back up when you loose your MP3s or they get locked when you try to copy them to another device. 

[Dashy 4 Ever 4,831]

I normally just sometimes download my favorite songs from YouTube on some safe website, but that's all. Once in a while, I'll buy some albums.

From there, I just sync the songs into my phone and listen to them all day long with no WiFi or data needed.

Edited December 24, 2018 by Sondash Studios

[cuteycindyhoney 13,282]

2 hours ago, TBD said:

Since I don't own smartphone, I still buy CD  and use this old MP3 player to add my music in. 

I have a Moto phone I keep to play my music on. I also use it for online video when I get a good WIFI signal. It doesn't even have a phone number any more. (Metro PCS stinks!) I kept it though, because it has a built in FM radio tuner. I don't think any phones have that any more!

 

 

Edited December 24, 2018 by cuteycindyhoney

[Discordian 6,013]

Amazon Music. I already use Amazon for everything else so what's one more thing?

[Odyssey 5,713]

I convert Youtube videos to MP3. 

[Snow Frostflame 3,567]

Yar har fiddle dee dee.

(I convert them, from YouTube. But I don't use them for MP3 players or phones like most people, I only convert songs so I can use them for Melody's Escape.)

[cuteycindyhoney 13,282]

18 hours ago, Holly Jolly Ody said:

I convert Youtube videos to MP3. 

OMG! I love my YouTube down-loader!

[Phosphor 11,522]

On 12/24/2018 at 3:06 AM, Odyssey said:

I convert Youtube videos to MP3. 

I do the exact same thing. 

[RDDash 18,839]

Ripped off from old CDs or from the YouTube to MP3 converter

[GiFTGewEhrSCHutzen-4 8,827]

Itunes, and if I can't find the song that I like there, I just download them from other sites, or even use torrent sometimes.

Don't judge me or even go SJW on that topic.

[Justin_Case001 4,855]

Mp3?!  What is this, the stone ages??

[Midnight Solace 5,128]

... I just use YouTube to mp3. I don't have that much money to actually buy songs...

[Here No Longer 5,270]

I pirate...  

I use a YouTube Downloader that converts YouTube videos into different file types. In this case, MP3s.

[Aura 120]

It all depends on the situation for me, and explaining that may be more than what it's worth here.  Google Play is my first choice for MP3, but I will used iTunes and Bandcamp when those are the best or only options.  I do purchase CDs and rip them as well.

[Brony Number 42 9,886]

I rip them from the CDs that I buy. 

I have never and will never buy non physical music.

[The Kaeya Simp 13,953]

Torrent sites (for illegal albums) and a YouTube downloading app (or youtube downloading sites)