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Downloading music without torrents

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IcePointa
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Yea so I had to switch universities and where I'm at now we only have the university resnet system for internet access, and they've made it impossible to use torrents apparently. Albumbase got killed didn't it? Has a good site risen up from the ashes yet?
Feb 16 2008 8:55PM
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comeatmebro
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limewire?
Feb 16 2008 9:05PM
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EastcoastAR5
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Just search what ever album or artist you want into google with "megaupload" OR "rapidshare" after it, and a ton of links will come up in different blog sites and such which have the file hosted on either of the hosting sites(megaupload or rapidshare). Works better than anything in my opinion...
Feb 16 2008 9:07PM
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freezed
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if you have a .edu email address, use Ruckus.
Feb 16 2008 9:19PM
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PagesHouse
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cabos
Feb 16 2008 9:21PM
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user098123
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Not sure if Ruckus still has the DRM protection on their files or not...

if it does though, get a program called Tunebite. You can then re-record the songs with Tunebite, which strips off the DRM protection.
Feb 16 2008 9:22PM
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Melvs
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shareminer.com
Feb 16 2008 9:23PM
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pbandj
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i absolutely hate ruckus, can't put it on my zune, can't burn it, if torrents all get shut down i'll pay 15 bucks a month for zune market place
Feb 16 2008 9:24PM
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user098123
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Read what I just said.
Feb 16 2008 9:24PM
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pbandj
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oh i know all about tune bite, and it either takes a while or re-records it with very low quality, torrents are much easier

Feb 16 2008 9:29PM
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almostaskier
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“parent directory” mp3 OR wma OR ogg OR wav ARTIST/SONG NAME -html -htm -download -links
Feb 16 2008 9:33PM
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user098123
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Nah man it works great. I had a premium version I got and I could rerecord movies at like 700 kbps quality and they recored at 30x speed for the movie or something like that, so it took like only a few minutes. It's even better for songs.
Feb 16 2008 9:39PM
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freezed
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word man, ruckus + tunebite is great.
Feb 16 2008 9:40PM
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yellav
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albumwash.com
Feb 16 2008 9:44PM
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2+2=5
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soulseek
Feb 16 2008 11:13PM
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pbandj
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hmmm i just downloaded version 5 premium (got the crack offline) and i'm trying to figure it out, it sounds like all the songs it's converting are playing at once... is that normal?
Feb 17 2008 12:25AM
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doritos
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If you're in the dorms, get OurTunes or something, anyone who's sharing their music on iTunes will have their entire library available for download there.
Feb 17 2008 12:35AM
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pbandj
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myTunes
Feb 17 2008 1:00AM
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Itsbackfliptime
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unfortunately with iTunes 7 ourTunes is kinda broken. Its really janky right now, or at least it was a few months ago. I assume myTunes is broken as well although I don't know since it was windows only.
Feb 17 2008 1:57AM
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Itsbackfliptime
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check out www.beemp3.com it searches the internet for mp3s that are randomly hosted on myspaces, personal websites, blogs, etc.
Feb 17 2008 5:42AM
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Mr_Bojangles
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DC++ is incredibly useful for finding anything that you can think of, provided you have a few gigabytes of music/other files to share to begin with.
Feb 17 2008 6:14AM
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LPT_311
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Listen to this feller, he's very smart


Example: Britney Spears Celebrity megaupload

then they ask you to type in a 3 letter cod that is displayed, and your golden. For anyone who can't use .rar files either, there is a great program called "UNRAR" that you can download that unzips .rar files really quickly. Just search Unrar in google.
Feb 17 2008 8:57AM
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tBatt
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i use ares, its yet to fail me
Feb 17 2008 11:50AM
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IcePointa
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Anyone know a way to get a free rapidshare premium account?

I found a huge list of usernames and passwords, but I tried like 15 of them and all the passwords were invalid...then I tried a premium account generator program that looked sketch, so I scanned it before downloading and its a virus.
Mar 23 2008 1:33PM
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Itsbackfliptime
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email the people in charge of the network and tell them you want to download a new linux distribution and the only way to get it is by torrent. They might tell you how to make it work. I got an email from my university telling me I downloaded an episode of the sopranos and I had to delete it and uninstall my torrent program. I responded by saying "I deleted the copyrighted file, but bit torrent is in no way illegal and it has many legitimate uses so I won't uninstall it." They said it was fine.
Mar 23 2008 2:00PM
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TerminatorX
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i use projectplaylist.com and open up my playlists with windows media player. then while the song is playing, i click file then save as. and it will download the streaming music.
Mar 23 2008 6:45PM
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doritos
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Smart. Mother. Fucker. I'mma try this, they have a lot of underground hip hop or is their selection limited?
Mar 23 2008 6:47PM
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TerminatorX
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ya it works for most songs, but some have a protection.
Mar 23 2008 6:56PM
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sherpasrock
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i use projectplaylist as well, although there are other ways.




if you can find the direct link to the mp3 file (like its a blank web page with just a quicktime or whatever player, with "song.mp3" as the address) you can just go to (if you're using firefox) file > save page as > and just saves the song.

if you have any minimal html knowledge you can create a small link webpage in notepad linking to that file and then just right click > save file as.

there are many ways other then programs or bit torrents, although they usually aren't as convenient as said programs.
Mar 23 2008 7:52PM
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Lineskiah11
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check out megadownload.net

it searches both megaupload and rapidshare for you. pretty nice
Mar 23 2008 8:02PM
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TerminatorX
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i havn't downloaded much underground hip hop, except for zion i, which they had a lot of.
Mar 23 2008 8:10PM
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