anything better than itunes for ipod

[cassie714]

My kids received ipods for christmas and we also bought some itune cards. It just doesnt seem like you get many songs. Anyone use something else? i am not interested in the illegal ones LOL. My 14 year old was trying to convince me to use limewire--UM NO. Anyway just wondering what everyone else uses

 

[cclovesdis]

I would love to know too. Just got an MP3 player.

 

[HaleyB]

You can import music from any CD you own and put it onto your ipod. This is the way most people fill them at first. Lots of people will share CD's so they can rip them to their iTunes account. It is very easy to do if you use the iTunes program.

As for buying new songs, you get what you pay for. The iTunes songs come in the best format for you to use with an iPod. I have not looked into it in awhile, but in the past everyone who had cheaper songs used an inferior file type. Plus iTunes has the best selection.

When you first set up an iPod there is a burst of song buying, after that it very much slows down.

 

[disney4us2002]

If you have your own music, cd's, then you can add them to your itunes but you can't use anything other than itunes. Itunes will save it into their format so that it works on your ipod. I have bought music from amazon and it is directly added to my itunes library.

 

[wannagotodisney]

You can purchase music downloads from Amazon and they will work with the ipod--but you still have to use the itunes software to load them onto the ipod. I think the Amazon downloads are a little less expensive.

 

[funnygarcia]

You can buy songs on Amazon too. There is a download that will port it over to your Itunes for you, super easy. Lots of free music on Amazon if you are interested in classical, jazz, world music, etc.
I've been buying more on Amazon because the price is less than Itunes or they send promo code offers .. large selection of holiday/Christmas music free this year too.

 

[fakereadhed]

Careful about limewire and the like. Great way to catch a virus.

 

[HoneyPooh]

There is a legal way to use limewire, pay for it

I use Amazon and Walmart.com a lot, I think lots of their music is about a nickel cheaper. Albums are much less expensive at other places besides itunes and you can often get codes for dollars off.

 

[The Iron Giant]

You can import music from any CD you own and put it onto your ipod. This is the way most people fill them at first. Lots of people will share CD's so they can rip them to their iTunes account. It is very easy to do if you use the iTunes program.

For the record... and I'm not trying to be the morality police - just a point of information:

Borrowing a CD you don't own and ripping it to iTunes is no different than illegally downloading music.

 

[crazelion]

Amazon and Wal-Mart have music too that download from.

 

[Blue.Fairy2]

For the record... and I'm not trying to be the morality police - just a point of information:

Borrowing a CD you don't own and ripping it to iTunes is no different than illegally downloading music.

so going to the library and checking out cds then ripping them to itunes is the same...if you ask me I think that is a grey area. don't see a problem with either one personally.

 

[The Iron Giant]

so going to the library and checking out cds then ripping them to itunes is the same...if you ask me I think that is a grey area. don't see a problem with either one personally.

Again... I'm not the music police by any means. And I'm certainly not condemning anyone because I have borrowed CDs from friends and the library and copied them. I'm just stating the facts.

But in both cases (through the internet or through the library) music is being copied without the consent of the copyright holder.

I disagree that its a gray area. I think people just associate downloading from the internet as stealing and borrowing from a friend or the library with the intent to copy as OK.

 

[timzagain]

My kids received ipods for christmas and we also bought some itune cards. It just doesnt seem like you get many songs. Anyone use something else? i am not interested in the illegal ones LOL. My 14 year old was trying to convince me to use limewire--UM NO. Anyway just wondering what everyone else uses

Outside of the legality issues, my children learned the hard way that using limewire is the technological equivalent of praticising unsafe sex! Shared files came with viruses which eventually caused 3 iPods in my house to die of unnaturally causes. You'd think that after the first iPod crashed and burned because of limewire, the other two kids would learn and stay away! My first generation nano, which has never "slept around" (downloads from iTunes or from original CD's only), has never given me a minute of trouble and I have had it for several years now!

 

[fakereadhed]

LOL timzagain!

 

[disneychrista]

Walmart, amazon, Rhapsody, and other simular music services all will work with iTunes.

 

[whjoyjr]

Outside of the legality issues, my children learned the hard way that using limewire is the technological equivalent of praticising unsafe sex! Shared files came with viruses which eventually caused 3 iPods in my house to die of unnaturally causes. You'd think that after the first iPod crashed and burned because of limewire, the other two kids would learn and stay away! My first generation nano, which has never "slept around" (downloads from iTunes or from original CD's only), has never given me a minute of trouble and I have had it for several years now!

I have heard of PC's getting infected from Limewire, but never an iPod. Care to elaborate?

 

[Juliah]

The iTunes store offers a free single to download each week. It's a neat way to add to a library of music while discovering artists you might not have heard of otherwise. DD gets notices in her email of what downloads are free and has had lots of fun trying out new music. This month, there was also a free sampler of Christmas music, and she just loves a song in the sampler called It Snowed by a singer named Meaghan Smith. Chances are DD never would have found this artist if the song hadn't been in the sampler.

Here's a link to the single of the week:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/december-single-of-the-week/id347349345

I'm not as familiar with amazon's music downloads, but I think they have freebies, too.

 

[Blue.Fairy2]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2330141

the free music is at the bottom of the first post.

Also if you have a touch and/or iphone you can download radio apps that play music some are really great and they can also be found in my thread.

a few examples are:

radio disney
last fm
pandora

here is a link also:

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/ar...12-internet-radio-apps-for-iphone-ipod-touch/

 

[disneychrista]

she just loves a song in the sampler called It Snowed by a singer named Meaghan Smith.

That is a great song. I added several new Holiday songs to my collection thanks to iTunes & Amazon this holiday.

 

[timzagain]

I have heard of PC's getting infected from Limewire, but never an iPod. Care to elaborate?

I'm not the most technno-savvy person in the world, so I can't give you all the details - that's my husband's department. I was focusing on the fnancial aspect, the fact that my children could be so dumb - they don't want to pay 99 cents for a download, but you'd get "free music" that would end up costing you an iPod!

As I understand it, somehow, the virus infected music files caused the iPods to malfunction - They'd be reset a few times, work for a day and conk out again. Eventually, they just died - wouldn't even power on. One of them was "revived" after it was sent off for repairs - it took us so long to get it back, that we bought a replacement in the meantime. We had no luck with the other two though.

DD17 learned her lesson and only buys legitimate downloads! The other two still haven't caught on - the next new iPods they'll be getting will be the ones they buy with their own money!