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[Deanne]

Oh now this is a good topic :-$
There is so much that I can say on this but I will not and I will behave and keep it legal of sorts.
Over the past 15 + ( yes showing my age here ) I have acquired over 1.5TB in tunes.

In saying that, all my tunes come from downloading :D

[YoungL]

How times have changed since this topic first began. We've had KaZaA, LimeWire, Bearshare and then Bit Torrents. But theres an awesome service in Europe (which should be in US soon I believe) called Spotify... The free version used to be amazing, now its not so amazing with all the restrictions they have placed upon the service. But if you pay £5 a month $8 ish, you can listen to unlimited music, whatever you want... almost everything is on there!

If you don't pay you have to listen to the occasional advert and you have restrictions on how many songs you can listen to per month... but either way, i prefer doing this to downloading now.

@Deanne, 1.5TB is a lot of music!! I thought my 100GB was a lot lol

[Deanne]

YoungL, on May 10 2011, 09:50 PM, said:

@Deanne, 1.5TB is a lot of music!! I thought my 100GB was a lot lol

when you are an online dj all music helps :D

There is also an app out there called ThePirateApp, yes I do use this for hard to find songs when people request off me

[Tinks]

I was bought a Roberts DAB with usb and wifi not this christmas but christmas before last. It came with a free trial to LastFM but the annual sub was only £36 at the time (gone up a little this year). I love it, I listed all my favourites on the last website and its my own customised radio station that only covers the artists I have listed + some less known artists matching the same genre. I get to tag what I love and ban anything I hate, add to that that it wifi's to my comp so it plays all my music on my network or I can use a USB stick and it has a line in for my phone. The biggest disappointment with this perfect system is that it cant run on batteries you have to plug it in.

This year I got a different make so I could have one up stairs and one downstairs. Its a PURE wireless DAB but it has a mini usb (useless), and it uses its own music cloud which you can subscribe to, The Lounge (not interested). It doesn't support Last FM unfortunately and its service doesn't offer me the same customised radio, in fact its not a patch on Last and wouldn't buy a PURE device again; its ok for upstairs and is a good, if not very expensive, alarm clock.

I have used Spotify but LastFM is better for me, I put it on and forget about it and I get all my favourite artists who could ask for more.

[Icecold]

I listen to music on Blip.fm, but tend to buy albums that I particularly like.

[Tinks]

I dont use iTunes but if I do buy music now (instead of LastFM) I use Amazon, they are the cheapest and no license restrictions on how many devices I can play a track on, also the cheapest lol

[YoungL]

I use iTunes for convenience when the song I want is not available on Spotify. It's convenient because I can just purchase it on my iPhone on the go. (Stuck in the middle of the Apple ecosystem). Spotify now has "Apps" which you can install to it, one of them is LastFM. I use it to generate recommendations for me. But it does not sound as good as your Roberts DAB. I think I want one of those. I am going to be searching for one. The nice thing about Spotify, all be it expensive at £10 a month, you can have it on your iPhone. I have an iPhone compatible car stereo and can listen to and control my Spotify through my car stereo which is a bonus. Can be dodgy when you are driving somewhere which isn't urban but then you can have some playlists set to available offline. All of this though does eat up my mobile data very quickly though.

[Steven Stone]

I use itunes, or rip it from a friends CD, and the occasion youtube/google search.

[YoungL]

I very rarely use iTunes anymore, there was a point when I used to have it open all of the time, that was before I started paying to use Spotify and now I use nothing else really.

[dodo51]

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