I'd second the love for beatport, but it's library is obviously very specific. There are a ton of great (legal) mp3 download sites for dance music, which makes me happy to be a DJ :) If you like beatport, try also audiojelly.com, playittonight.com, id-t.com etc. Great stuff.
As for non-dance music, well, it's tougher. I'll ignore allofmp3, because it is of dubious legality and, more importantly, doesn't give any money to the people who own or created the music. The reason I use legal downloads rather than Kazaa or whatever is not to be legal - the chances of getting caught if you know what you're doing are basically zero - but to be morally right by rewarding the artists. Several of my friends are musicians and I really don't want to rip them off. So that basically leaves DRM sites for the majority of established (i.e. non-indy) artists. Of those, I have to say iTunes is probably the easiest to work with. They have a decent catalogue, and the DRM allows you to burn to a CD and then you can rerip from there. It's a pain, but it's legal, and the artists get their cut. I'd mention here that of course the sound quality is far from great, especially if you recompress after ripping, so I'd second the advice of picking up the CD used. Amazon have a great system - I picked up a ton of great CDs used for under $1 each (plus shipping) a few weeks ago. -- radish _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
