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iTunes or Limewire

How do you get your music for your iPhone?

  • iTunes

    Votes: 66 55.9%

  • Limewire

    Votes: 17 14.4%

  • Other free music download service

    Votes: 25 21.2%

  • Other paid music download service

    Votes: 10 8.5%
  • Total voters
    118
Posted by me in another thread:

I never understood the whole "Torrent as much as I can as fast as I can" mentality. I've got over 100 DVDs, 50+ Blu-Ray and HDDVD titles, in addition to 200 music CDs and a few hundred iTunes tracks. All purchased legally. I don't have time to watch/listen to them all, yet I know people who have (mostly) ill-gotten collections that would make mine seem insignificant in comparison. I just don't understand people's reasoning of having it just because they can. WTF is someone going to do with 300GB worth of music? Seriously, that just boggles my mind. Right now I have about 3GB worth of stuff on my iPhone and I can't get through it all in one day.

If a P2P song gets downloaded and never gets listened to, was it ever really pirated? (to play on a classic riddle) :D

I'm all for a built-in fee on the iPod/iPhone, and possibly a subscription-based model if it is reasonably priced. I just don't buy enough music to warrant spending $20 a month. $5 or $10 might be good, but it should offer unlimited downloading capabilities. Most of the stuff I'd get wouldn't be contemporary music anyway, so their Miley Cyrus empire will be safe for another day. ;)
 
Where's Amazon ? Used to use itunes, but the quality is crap and drm sucks. I have about 90cds, all from amazon. Why are so many people so tight fisted and use limewire. really don't like it that people do that. you wouldn't go into a shop and steal cds or anything else would you?
 
I use iTunes or buy the CDs. I also have Acquisition and Cabos, but neither usually work for me. I haven't even thought about putting Limewire onto my computer, though. I've heard too many weird stories.
 
lime wire is only good if i want to put one song on my phone for a ring tone otherwise its crap for actually listening to music on the computer so i use torrents
 
Well I usually use iTunes first and foremost. But sometimes I browse Amazon (I really hate that site layout) and of course a CD if it's the right price and a great artist. Um I can get free songs (or pay a little fee and get movies and tv shows) through this partnership my college has with this online site. Didn't work too well for me on my Windows and most definitely isn't compatible with my Mac, soooo I don't use it.
 
I get most of my music now from free (and legal :p) game OST's that haven't been officially released yet. Technically they're rips and fill up a big chunk of my iTunes library :eek: don't bother with much "pop" music now.

BOSS10L said:
Posted by me in another thread:

I never understood the whole "Torrent as much as I can as fast as I can" mentality. I've got over 100 DVDs, 50+ Blu-Ray and HDDVD titles, in addition to 200 music CDs and a few hundred iTunes tracks. All purchased legally. I don't have time to watch/listen to them all, yet I know people who have (mostly) ill-gotten collections that would make mine seem insignificant in comparison. I just don't understand people's reasoning of having it just because they can. WTF is someone going to do with 300GB worth of music? Seriously, that just boggles my mind. Right now I have about 3GB worth of stuff on my iPhone and I can't get through it all in one day.
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My music library is around 23gb now and I still haven't heard half of it. For me it's more having the right album and songs just in case. Sometimes I'll want to play music that I've never heard before, kinda like radio without adverts (or not with the BBC) and the ability to skip a song if you don't like it.
My video library is stupidly big since I record and keep loads from my EyeTV. I've got films for "a rainy day" that I'm waiting to watch, same goes for DVDs. I like to wait for the right moment :p:confused:

If a P2P song gets downloaded and never gets listened to, was it ever really pirated? (to play on a classic riddle) :D
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That's awesome. I love that :D
 
I get the bulk of my music from the public library...

Note that ripping/copying CDs lent from the library is legal in Norway, and I can even share with my closest friends and relatives :cool:

Stuff I don't find there I get from iTMS. :)
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
I get the bulk of my music from the public library...

Note that ripping/copying CDs lent from the library is legal in Norway, and I can even share with my closest friends and relatives :cool:

Stuff I don't find there I get from iTMS. :)
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Jesus Christ. What do the Norwegian artists have to say about this?

From another point of view, bestiality's supposed to be legal in Amsterdam, doesn't make it right though ... ;)
 
Bernie-Mac said:
I use Limewire, never used the iTunes store in my life, but i have Limewire Pro so technically im not downloading illegally :D
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For noobs:

Just because you have Limewire Pro doesn't mean your not doing anything wrong...
 
Neutral Gamer said:
Jesus Christ. What do the Norwegian artists have to say about this?
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Norwegian artists...? I don't know... but the library have music from all the world, in no way limited to Norwegian artists (even if they try to have a complete collection on local artists). ;)

I know that FONO (organisation for record companies) and/or GRAMO (performing artists) collects and distributes quite a lot of money, received from the government to compensate for the legal right we all have to copy media** for private use, to artists, though.

**not computer software, including games, though, nor audio books (even if you can loan those too at the library).
 
Neutral Gamer said:
Jesus Christ. What do the Norwegian artists have to say about this?

From another point of view, bestiality's supposed to be legal in Amsterdam, doesn't make it right though ... ;)
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there burning down churches obviously well if your listening to black metal that is :D and downloading music is not considered a crime in Canada yet only if they pass a Conservative law saying they'll fine us a lot if we get caught but i don't think that's going to happen
 
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