My sound card works now, and I bought some speakers yesterday, and I have a fast connection at work. I would appreciate music suggestions, when possible with a URL from which I could download interesting MP3s.
Vladislov Delay is awesome stuff… So download all songs. I can’t remember exactly how to find them, because the site is trying so hard to be arty that it never has any navigation links, just unrelated words you can click on. Dig around.
Also, there’s a few MP3 blogs that link to every fre” MP3 they find out there… these are files that are made available by the artists or the labels. I’ll dig up some links. But 3hive.com is good. Also, this metafilter post (http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/34264) has a roundup of a bunch I’ve never tried.
Also, I highly recommend you download iTunes. It’s the best digital music software I’ve found, even on Windows, and I’ve tried them all. Additionally, iTunes has started giving away a free song each week!
If you don’t mind paying, there’s two good options:
1) http://www.emusic.com Tons of small labels with lots of great jazz, electronica and metal stuff, and some really weird recordings. Cost: $15 for 90 Songs (if I remember right…)
2) http://www.allofmp3.com Russian server for legal mp3 downloads (at least legal in Russia). Really big selection with “online encoding”, where you can choose the quality of the download. Cheap, at $0.01 per megabyte downloaded. You’ll find mainstreamy things there. I got all the seventies stuff from allofmp3 during my recent musical dementia.
But I don’t think you can download and keep the music — just listen, unless you have some fancypants pirating software or something. (And if you do, let me know.)
Tell you what: download WinAmp’s(http://www.winamp.com) free player. When you d/l WinAmp, you get a good (read better than Microsoft’s) player plus it comes with internet radio station list. This is streaming audio (which you could capture if you had a program like Total Recorder(http://www.HighCriteria.com)) with over 200 stations available. I listen to Trance, Classic Rock, Ambient, Folk, Classical and whatever else strikes my fancy. It’s all free and pretty much unencumbered by advertising. Plus it is unrestricted in that you can listen to a station for as long as you want as often as you want. Oh yeah, one of the online radio sites is actually a music label (http://www.magnatune.com). They let you listen to a whole album before you buy, and their prices start at $5/US per album. Further, they promise that 50% of what you pay goes directly to the artist: screw the “suits”. *grin*
Now, I also can recommend Live365dotCom (http://www.live365.com) as a source of both streaming audio and mp3 files. I could also tell you that LimeWire (http://www.limewire.com) is a pretty good peer-to-peer file sharing resource, but I wouldn’t want for anyone to think that I was recommending a way to ignore copyright law.
I don’t know what you like, but check out http://www.tonspion.de
Check out:
http://www.huumerecordings.com/
Vladislov Delay is awesome stuff… So download all songs. I can’t remember exactly how to find them, because the site is trying so hard to be arty that it never has any navigation links, just unrelated words you can click on. Dig around.
Also, there’s a few MP3 blogs that link to every fre” MP3 they find out there… these are files that are made available by the artists or the labels. I’ll dig up some links. But 3hive.com is good. Also, this metafilter post (http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/34264) has a roundup of a bunch I’ve never tried.
Also, I highly recommend you download iTunes. It’s the best digital music software I’ve found, even on Windows, and I’ve tried them all. Additionally, iTunes has started giving away a free song each week!
If you don’t mind paying, there’s two good options:
1) http://www.emusic.com Tons of small labels with lots of great jazz, electronica and metal stuff, and some really weird recordings. Cost: $15 for 90 Songs (if I remember right…)
2) http://www.allofmp3.com Russian server for legal mp3 downloads (at least legal in Russia). Really big selection with “online encoding”, where you can choose the quality of the download. Cheap, at $0.01 per megabyte downloaded. You’ll find mainstreamy things there. I got all the seventies stuff from allofmp3 during my recent musical dementia.
I just got a fast connection myself–well, fast for this place–and I have had fun listening to some of the things here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/newmusic/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/mixingit/
But I don’t think you can download and keep the music — just listen, unless you have some fancypants pirating software or something. (And if you do, let me know.)
I also like kd lang’s version of Helpless available on the Guardian for free at the moment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1303740,00.html
i’ve just discovered another russian site: http://www.mp3search.ru/
.05 – .15 a song, $1.20 for complete albums. i’m in love :)
Tell you what: download WinAmp’s(http://www.winamp.com) free player. When you d/l WinAmp, you get a good (read better than Microsoft’s) player plus it comes with internet radio station list. This is streaming audio (which you could capture if you had a program like Total Recorder(http://www.HighCriteria.com)) with over 200 stations available. I listen to Trance, Classic Rock, Ambient, Folk, Classical and whatever else strikes my fancy. It’s all free and pretty much unencumbered by advertising. Plus it is unrestricted in that you can listen to a station for as long as you want as often as you want. Oh yeah, one of the online radio sites is actually a music label (http://www.magnatune.com). They let you listen to a whole album before you buy, and their prices start at $5/US per album. Further, they promise that 50% of what you pay goes directly to the artist: screw the “suits”. *grin*
Now, I also can recommend Live365dotCom (http://www.live365.com) as a source of both streaming audio and mp3 files. I could also tell you that LimeWire (http://www.limewire.com) is a pretty good peer-to-peer file sharing resource, but I wouldn’t want for anyone to think that I was recommending a way to ignore copyright law.