Free music

Kjealousmuch · May 18, 2008

I changed to a mac from a pc over a year ago. i was using a free music site, but it is not mac friendly. is there any safe site that is mac friendly?

Kjealousmuch · May 18, 2008

Swiched from a pc to mac. my old free music site isnt mac friendly. are there any safe sites that are?

eric · May 18, 2008

try not to cross post
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108829

what kind of "free music" are you looking for?

IckyThump · May 18, 2008

i use www.hypem.com

TopDog · May 18, 2008

http://www.jamendo.com/en/

Sennec · May 18, 2008

Qtrax for Mac. Release date: today.
http://qtrax.com/NL/download.html

hughvane · May 18, 2008

Kjealousmuch said:
Swiched from a pc to mac. my old free music site isnt mac friendly. are there any safe sites that are?

I thought everybody knew about Limewire but I don't see it mentioned. I use it regularly, and have never had hacking/invasion problems with my Mac.

A good firewall is absolutely essential, and I've found the MacOS deals with that issue very well. Make sure the Network Proxies are kept to a minimum. Clean out your Shared folder regularly, keeping contents to a manageable number, bearing in mind that Limewire is P2P so it's considered the 'done thing' to make sure you're contributing.

ogacon · May 18, 2008

hughvane said:
I thought everybody knew about Limewire but I don't see it mentioned. I use it regularly, and have never had hacking/invasion problems with my Mac.

A good firewall is absolutely essential, and I've found the MacOS deals with that issue very well. Make sure the Network Proxies are kept to a minimum. Clean out your Shared folder regularly, keeping contents to a manageable number, bearing in mind that Limewire is P2P so it's considered the 'done thing' to make sure you're contributing.

Please review the forum rules... anything to do with pirating is strictly prohibited to talk about. Nothing illegal by US standards is allowed to be posted on Mac-Forums.
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/announcement.php?f=77&a=7

IckyThump · Jun 16, 2008

Sennec said:
Qtrax for Mac. Release date: today.
http://qtrax.com/NL/download.html

apparently not :/ ?

MadChild · Jun 19, 2008

I use torrents, like say if i only want 1 song of an album ill open the torrent file in Transmission and just untick all the songs i dont want, SIMPLE!

Limewire = Malware, Spam etc..

MadChild

xx

James · Jun 19, 2008

Just a note for all you music lovers out there. Limewire and most other so called free music places are mostly illegal pirate services. Many of the so called "free music" places end up costing you money in the long run.

You might consider something different, check out Creative Commons license music at places such as http://music.podshow.com/ also http://www.garageband.com/

This music is free and it is legal and many times is every bit as good as commercial music. There are songs in almost every genre you can name.