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[J2 Cool]

My mom keeps bugging me, she wants an ipod and always asks me how to get mp3's. I've burned her CD's before, but if she tried herself, I'm sure she'd just find corrupt file after corrupt file. I told her I don't even really mess around with it anymore, which is true. Can't even remember the last song I downloaded. But anyway, she wants to join one of those pay sites. I honestly don't have too much knowledge on them myself. iTunes of course has that dollar a song deal. But isn't there some that'd be better? Like a monthly fee, free songs? I don't know, she won't get off my back though. It's her mother's day/birthday present. She just rapes the holiday for all it's worth.. So what do you guys use? I'm sure there's gotta be something out there easy to use, for her types.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

If you're going legal... Might as well buy the cds and rip/encode them yourself. If not that you might as well just go with iTunes if she is getting an iPod. Myself, I download stuff and then buy it if I like it.



Edit: Just have her use iTunes. I gave my mother my old iPod recently, and she has been driving me fucking insane. As easy as OSX, and iTunes is to use... She constantly bothers me to encode all of her cds and add them to the iPod. I want to pull out my hair.

 

[Sean]

Well, if she wants an iPod then she will have to use the iTunes Music Store to buy her music.

I would just use iTMS, do not bother with the monthly subscription stores. You are basically paying to rent your music. If you do not want to continue to pay the monthly fee then you lose all of your music library.

 

[Zaptruder]

My mom keeps bugging me, she wants an ipod and always asks me how to get mp3's. I've burned her CD's before, but if she tried herself, I'm sure she'd just find corrupt file after corrupt file. I told her I don't even really mess around with it anymore, which is true. Can't even remember the last song I downloaded. But anyway, she wants to join one of those pay sites. I honestly don't have too much knowledge on them myself. iTunes of course has that dollar a song deal. But isn't there some that'd be better? Like a monthly fee, free songs? I don't know, she won't get off my back though. It's her mother's day/birthday present. She just rapes the holiday for all it's worth.. So what do you guys use? I'm sure there's gotta be something out there easy to use, for her types.

Napster is a good service if you continue your subscription... 15 bucks a month for access to unlimited tunes... it requires monthly renewing of the DRM tho...

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

Napster is a good service if you continue your subscription... 15 bucks a month for access to unlimited tunes... it requires monthly renewing of the DRM tho...

You can't use an iPod with Napster.

I'd rather own my music rather than rent it.

 

[Zaptruder]

He didn't mention an Ipod?

 

[8bit]

It says ipod in the first sentence. Also, I thought napster offered some proprietary format as opposed to mp3s?

 

[Zaptruder]

It says ipod in the first sentence. Also, I thought napster offered some proprietary format as opposed to mp3s?

I'm BLIND! AAHHHHH

 

[impirius]

Yahoo Music was just released, and it looks promising... $6.99 a month or $60 yearly for all-you-can-listen music. 192Kbps WMA files, even (forget 128!). It even lets you put them on certain MP3 players ala Napster To Go, and for less than half the price.

Among the caveats, of course, is that you can't burn these unlimited tracks to CD or freely put them on different computers. Also, the unlimited tracks will stop working once your subscription is up. There's still the option of buying single tracks for 99 cents each (lowered to 79 cents if you're on the subscription plan), which lets you burn them to CD and keep them as long as you like.

 

[scorcho]

allofmp3.com, english version link on the upper left side. i've used them for almost a year without any surprise charges on my card, so they seem as legit as most other online retailers. you can't beat the price and features.

 

[Nerevar]

It says ipod in the first sentence. Also, I thought napster offered some proprietary format as opposed to mp3s?

No. It does use .WMA (windows media audio), which is incompatible with the Apple-supported iPod. Just about any other MP3 player can play them though.

 

[scorcho]

No. It does use .WMA (windows media audio), which is incompatible with the Apple-supported iPod. Just about any other MP3 player that supports DRM-riddled wma files can play them though.

fixed

 

[Uncle Dukey]

From what I've read, Allofmp3 doesn't even own the rights to most (all?) of their songs.

 

[Star Power]

Pay for mp3s? Why would you go and do a silly thing like that?

 

[Jewbacca]

My mom keeps bugging me, she wants an ipod and always asks me how to get mp3's. I've burned her CD's before, but if she tried herself, I'm sure she'd just find corrupt file after corrupt file. I told her I don't even really mess around with it anymore, which is true. Can't even remember the last song I downloaded. But anyway, she wants to join one of those pay sites. I honestly don't have too much knowledge on them myself. iTunes of course has that dollar a song deal. But isn't there some that'd be better? Like a monthly fee, free songs? I don't know, she won't get off my back though. It's her mother's day/birthday present. She just rapes the holiday for all it's worth.. So what do you guys use? I'm sure there's gotta be something out there easy to use, for her types.

Ipod = Itunes...

Save yourself the headache and just settle for itunes... its 99cents per song and she can do all the sorting she needs to and create workout playlists or whatever...

 

[Space Age Playboy]

It just says she wants an Ipod, not that she has one. If there's a better service, the op wants to know about it.

IMO, CDs are a better value than pay MP3 sites.

 

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