iTunes / iPod
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
iPod comes with a pile of internet streaming radio stations, all different tastes, and even talk radio shows. Free!
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
I should add that it's a broadband thing...dial up has a tough time keeping up.
Posted by Bobbie Rochow (Member # 3341) on :
I use Yahoo Launchcast. They have different genres to choose form, & you can actaully CHOOSE which songs or artists you don't want to listen to. I can listen to my christian stuff, too. They also have a LONG list of kinds of music, way back to Big Bands, instrumentals, & we like to listen to the OLD classic country songs, bluegrass, old moonshine songs that really make us laugh! It has 60's garage music, you name it. It is free the first few months, then you can choose to pay $30 a year from then on. Try it! To me, it VERY worth the $30 a year. Don't know if you can download from it or not.
Posted by John Largent (Member # 4606) on :
I use "easynews.com" . . it's a newssource, so every song in th' world may not be up at any given time, but it has enabled me to have a very nice collection over the last two years or so. About 14k in th' collection, far more than you can really listen to, but if ya got an iPod, you have plenty of choices.
$9.95 a month for 10 Gigs of download. and as far as I know all the music's legal . . .
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
I just tried the revamped Napster site. You can do a Napster Lite version where you can download a song for 99 cents. You can then either play it on your computer or burn a CD. You can also download it to your iPod if you have one I'm sure.
I only downloaded one song so far but it downloaded in a flash (cable internet & fast computer) and burned great.
Posted by Raymond Quick (Member # 2649) on :
I like to listen to www.klrzfm.com, the "Rajun' Cajun". Nothing like an Elvis tune played on a fiddle, gutar, and squeeze box to make ya dance around the shop.
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
I'm using Music Match Plus on our computers. It has free radio in different genres. You can type in an artist name and it plays songs by them or similar artists. Download songs for 99 cents as well. It copies cds in mp3 formats. I use 192 bitrate.
I've got XM radio in the car and a Nomad Zen which I can plug into any stereo via a RCA y cable. It holds 40GB (around 16,000 songs) and has a battery that holds a 16 hr charge when not using a ac/dc adapter. It's similar to an ipod. Life is good.
I hear Napster has an unlimited song download capability for $15.99/mo. How many alblums worth do you think you could download in a months time? I don't know, but I'd give her one hell of a try.
Posted by Mike O'Neill (Member # 470) on :
Shop is tuned into Q107 (toronto) keeps us rockin' and John Derringer's morning show is fabulous.
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
I also like to listen to www.kfog.com whenever I get the chance...it was my favorite radio station up in San Francisco and they do live streaming audio.
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
quote:I hear Napster has an unlimited song download capability for $15.99/mo. How many alblums worth do you think you could download in a months time? I don't know, but I'd give her one hell of a try.
There's a catch though as far as I understand it. You can't burn them to CD then...you can only listen to them on an MP3 player. In order to convert them to a "burnable" (is that a word?) format, you have to pay the 99 cents per song.
Posted by Dale Manor (Member # 4858) on :
I use Apple's iTunes, available for Mac or PC (free download on Apples website)....99 cents per song, most albums are $9.99....and as far as I know, it's the only way to put music on an iPod....at least the original Apple iPod.
Itunes is easy to use, features a 30 second song sample. 1 free download is available each week. You can easily burn your songs onto a CD or back up your whole library of music (I'm up to 10 gigs) onto DVD's if you have a DVD burner.
I believe iTunes has served up over 200 million "LEGAL" downloads.
I don't use mp3 format...quality is just not there!
Posted by John Largent (Member # 4606) on :
Regarding downloading music. To do it very effectively you need either a quick version of DSL or Cable. Even a low rez tune of 2.3 mb at about 128 kbps would take 15 minutes at 256 Isdn. That's almost a rule set by itself.
As far as having a lot of music . . no need, as I said, I have a collection of about 14,000 songs. A lot are history, as I'm kind of a music history freak. Consider, last Jan. I downloaded the top 100 songs of each year, starting with 1940 and ending in 2003. That took over 26 GIGS from my news source bank. Most of it isn't in my play library.
While I have a 40 gig iPod, I think I only have at any given time, about 5000 songs, plus a couple audio books in it at any time. My "favorites" genre is a 670 song rotation . . about a full 18 hours of listening without a repeat, theoretically.
And once you have an iPod or similar mp3 player, a decent set of computer speakers is all you really need to listen to it in your studio, or shop.
I do disagree with the Dale, who said mp3s aren't quality . . I have a killer sound system in both our '34 Ford Street Rod and our GMC Gimmy . . CDs don't even come close . . We use an iPod, with the Monster connector in th' Gimmy, and a RCA Cable hookup in the '34 with the iPod, plugs right into the tuner, uses an Auxilary Input . . . Killer! My wife's Prelude uses the same RCA Cable with her iPod (She's got one too!) . . . they spoil you, you won't even listen to a radio anymore!
You can drive hundreds of miles without ever looking at your tuner or looking for new stations, no CDs scattered around the passenger department, makes driving and listening kind of fun. Sure simplifies it.
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on :
