Music download sites that are Open Source friendly (FreeBSD Linux (KDE))?
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at
14:49
I’m trying to find a sight for downloading music. A list of musts
1 Must be legal (I do not mind paying for what I get)
2 Can’t be monopolized buy only using MS Windows based software (Like Yahoo who by the way runs FreeBSD a lot)
3 Have song from 1970-2006 (Not just today’s songs)
It would be great if it was just a web based pay and down load. For the life of me I can not understand why every sight requires you to download and install there software. This could me written in java, flash or in plane HTML.
Tagged with: java flash • ms windows • music • windows based software • yahoo
Filed under: Open Source
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Two alternatives come to mind:
1. Magnatune, and indie record label. You can download WAV, FLAC, OGG, and get a physical CD shipped as well.
2. AllofMP3.com, a russian online music store. You can select encoding when you purchase, with a plethora of encoding options. You can choose OGG, FLAC, AAC, MP3, WAV, MusePack, with quality and/or bitrate tuning. Pay per megabyte, and incredibly cheap.
The legality of 2) depends on who you ask. The music industry does not like them, but other sources claim they do act within Russian copyright law.
They have a Windows application for downloading and renaming files, but DownTHEMall works just fine too.
http://www.soundclick.com/
Lots of musicians have music there, the majority of which can be downloaded for free. Much of it allows you to edit and/or redistribute it.