Can anyone suggest..

[Burrows]

A good music download system. Used to use bearshare and limewire but they just slowed down my comp and caused problems.

Cheers

[pANDAS Radio]

torrents

Try a program like Azureus and websites like www.mininova.org

[Draven]

If your looking for rock/alternative/hard to get stuff SoulSeek is very good from my experience.

[Burrows]

I use a site called bitsoup and have utorrents and it only lets you download whole albums and doesn’t really have a lot of the music im looking for, looking for something more direct other than having to go through websites i.e. something like limewire if you get what i mean.

[Largest of Gregs]

i suggest using Itunes store or Napster

[MarkMono]

Aye, iTunes is pretty shit hot, though I still use Soulseek if I'm looking for something obscure.

[pANDAS Radio]

Originally Posted by claire18

I use a site called bitsoup and have utorrents and it only lets you download whole albums and doesn’t really have a lot of the music im looking for.

With Azureus you can select to only download certain tracks rather than the whole album. You might also have better luck using a better torrent site. There are private torrent sites where you'll find the obscure stuff easier to find. STMusic is pretty good and signup is currently possible @ http://stmusic.org/signup.php

Isohunt is also very good. There's no real difference between searching for a song on a website and searching for a song on iTunes, Soulseek or Limewire.

[Draven]

Originally Posted by pANDAS Radio

With Azureus you can select to only download certain tracks rather than the whole album.

You can do that with uTorrent as well. I'm sure when the file is downloading you right click on it and go to the properties or something, not got it on this machine at the moment so will check when I get hold of my laptop.

But you definitely can select what files to download.

[Woolies]

Play.com doesn't have quite the same range as iTunes but you get the tracks as mp3s for cheaper than iTunes restricted format.

[pANDAS Radio]

Or a program like BitLord or BitComet will let you select/deselect files before the download starts.

Originally Posted by Woolies

Play.com doesn't have quite the same range as iTunes but you get the tracks as mp3s for cheaper.

Less likely to have DRM as well ain't they?

[Burrows]

Cheers guys for the help shall check them out.

Originally Posted by pANDAS Radio

http://stmusic.org/signup.php

With that one what does this mean....

Enter invite-code:
(Provided by your inviter)

[TSR]

Originally Posted by claire18

With that one what does this mean....

it will mean that someone who refers you will get some kind of 'bonus points' for bringing in another user. probably not needed

though if it's invite-only sign-up, you will need it

[Burrows]

Yeah think it is invite only because it wont let you move on untill you enter it.

[Ness]

aff ma computer woman.

[Burrows]

You on about was at home when this was posted, Im on your comp now but .