Music downloads

(drknute3) · (drknute3) **Join Date: Sep 2008** 05-19-2009, 8:18 AM

Our family is a mix of Ipods and Blackberry's. We started with Ipods and thus, use iTunes for all our music, ripping CD's and buying music. I can use the Blackberry software to transfer my iTunes playlists to my Storm, but it wont copy the songs purchased from iTunes, which I think is crap.

Is there a music site that I can buy songs individually like I do on iTunes, then pull them into iTunes and be able to transfer them to my Blackberry as well?

Thanks
Bill

(eubanks01) · (eubanks01) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 05-19-2009, 1:38 PM

Amazon??

(steezyshots) · (steezyshots) **Join Date: Feb 2008** 05-19-2009, 2:42 PM

He still pays for music. That's funny I haven't heard that one in a while!

(scott_a) · (scott_a) **Join Date: Dec 2002** 05-19-2009, 2:46 PM

Oh, the irony...

(sidekicknicholas)

I did this for a while...

get imesh (awesome, I have never not found something I looked for) basic subscription -- $6.50 or something.

You get unlimited downloads, but its all copy protected (no ipods/burning/etc etc)

then

download tunebite -- program that takes music with DRM protection plays them and then digitally re-records it to your computer, and the new copy has no protection. Like if you held a microphone up to the radio and recorded... only perfect quality and you can save it as WMA/MP3/Etc.

then just delete the one from imesh, keep the new un-protected one and burn/ipod/whatever you want with it.

so pretty much 100% legal, unlimited downloads you can burn for like $6

(mossy44) · (mossy44) **Join Date: Oct 2001** 05-20-2009, 2:00 PM

Nick - that is interesting. Have you experienced many viruses like Limewire and others have?

(drknute3) · (drknute3) **Join Date: Sep 2008** 05-21-2009, 11:07 AM

Tunebite looks promising. Has anyone used it to convert protected files downloaded through iTunes?

(canucked) · (canucked) **Join Date: Jun 2007** 05-21-2009, 3:25 PM

lol, scott a

For the record I pay for my music (and my pictures)

(sidekicknicholas)

No viruses, its a totally legit program.

I got it through isohunt (torrent) just a simple install and keygen to unluck the full version.

and Imesh is 100% legit too, since you pay they keep the spam and crap down, only an email once a month, I can live with that

(wakeborder5) · (wakeborder5) **Join Date: Jun 2002** 05-22-2009, 7:55 AM

I tried Napster for the 7 day free trial and decided to use it for another month as its 5 or 5.99 and you get unlimited downloads and 5 non-drm mp3s. I use Daniusoft Media Converter Pro to convert the drm songs to make them usable in iTunes. I would do this album by album, because all the ID info is in the title, and no properly set with artist and album, so its a little annoying to deal with that.

(mossy44) · (mossy44) **Join Date: Oct 2001** 05-24-2009, 6:50 AM

I tried imesh and i had several newer songs it couldn't find (with the gold stars). i might try napster.

(wakeborder5) · (wakeborder5) **Join Date: Jun 2002** 05-24-2009, 10:33 AM

I was mistaken about Napster, the 5.99/month is for streaming only, not downloading.

You could however just do the one week free trial and download and strip the drm off as many files as u want in the 7 days.

(wakeborder5) · (wakeborder5) **Join Date: Jun 2002** 05-24-2009, 11:05 AM

another great thing about Napster is they have a lot of edited version of stuff for those looking not to offend everyone on the lake