Where do you download your music from..........

[Bob Denman]

Got it... :thumbup:

 

[donhy]

Youtube

 

[Raprider]

No downloads...most of the 6,000 songs I have on my pc are from CDs I own or the few hundred records (yeah, vinyl!) that I've been copying via a USB turntable...this is a time-consuming process...start up the recording software, play a side, flip the record, play second side...then all the songs need to be labelled...truly a labor of love.
Then I can copy what I want onto my phone.

 

[jcthorne]

Every piece of music on my, and my wife's, phone came from CDs we own.

Joe T.

They still sell those shiny plastic disks with one album on each?

 

[jcthorne]

That is my question, how do you record music from Pandora or other services. I have Pandora now

I will mention a few terms you can search on since discussion in depth of these can lead places this forum should not go.

Usenet is an old data exchange format that predates the WWW on the internet. Its still around and lots of data exchanged through it.
FLAC is a lossless audio storage format more popular than MP3 on the net as its much higher quality. Original CD quality in a much smaller package.
Lidarr is a software program for keeping track of what music you have and what you want and getting what you are looking for.
NZB is an indexer file that allows you to get the data you are looking for from Usenet.

I have purchased many thousands of albums in many formats over the years. All are now stored on my home pc in a common FLAC format. For my phone, they are converted to mp3. With today's memory tech, its pretty easy to carry 5000 albums in your pocket or in your car stereo on a single chip. Voice control of the music via android auto is much easier while riding than fumbling with a touch screen.

 

[Mazo EMS2]

I've had an Amazon Prime acct for awhile and didn't even consider the possibility of music....I'm gonna try it.

 

[Stevew]

Amazon prime music, with unlimited data on our phones we stream music stations.

 

[Motorcycledave]

XM Radio

that you have on your phone, and listen too while riding/driving. Are they thru purchase or a site on the internet?

 

[wyliec]

I will mention a few terms you can search on since discussion in depth of these can lead places this forum should not go.

I use LPCM which creates WAV files. Here's a hypothetical situation (wink, wink), after I started this thread, I realized I had all I needed to record music, free; a t.v., a magic box connected to the tv (no monthly fee) with music channels (wink, wink), digital audio out (optical) tv connection, and a Sony digital voice recorder, but had to purchase an optical/coax digital-to-analog converter. Here's a disclaimer: You should be paying for all your music due to the copyright infringement policy. Remember, this is all hypothetical.

 

[duke50]

that you have on your phone, and listen too while riding/driving. Are they thru purchase or a site on the internet?

I get my music from Amazon Prime streaming music service. Plays through any blu tooth device. About $8 a month

 

[bhern]

that you have on your phone, and listen too while riding/driving. Are they thru purchase or a site on the internet?

You've already gotten a lot of answers, I just wanted to bring up a source of the source for me -- like many responders, I listen to my own library, now 8430 songs and still growing. Unlike some of the others, I endure iTunes, simply because it's too easy to work with and manage, but am considering going with the USB in the trunk route because I agree that it's a really klunky user interface.

But back to the reason for chiming in -- your public library could be a great source of tunes for you. No, not checking out CDs and ripping them as your own, which is just another form of theft and no amount of justification changes that, even though I certainly agree that if anyone deserves losing their shirts it's the scoundrel "impresarios" running the machine. However, many libraries offer a service called Freegal Music that allows library card holders to download up to 5 songs per week for free. I live in an area with multiple public library systems that use the service, so I've been able to download 15 songs a week for years now. Think of it as a Record of the Week club.

The only catch is that it doesn't cover everything under the sun -- the Freegal Music library is limited to Sony Music (and affiliated labels), so some of your favorites won't be available, or only those albums they released on an available label will be. So Kansas is there (yay!) but not Styx; Journey but not Foreigner, etc. I've been on an excursion through Miles Davis' catalogue over the last couple of months, for example, but at any rate the scope of artists is pretty large, especially for those of us of a certain age.

 

[wyliec]

bhern,

Thanks. I never gave the library a second thought. I'll have to check it out.