How do all you Linux users get your music?

Linc · Post by **Linc** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:13 am

Judland wrote:
Linc wrote:OK, someone want to let me in on how to use that with Linux? The site sayws you need a windows client installed???
That's only if you want to use their "Explorer" download manager. I just drag and drop file links to my Kget client and I'm golden. No big deal.

K Next question(s):
Is it legal (in the USA)?
Do they work w/ Paypal? I'd hate to send my credit card info to some company outside the USA...

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:32 am

It's about as legal as the RIAA telling you that you can't listen to music you've purchased in the way you want to listen to it.

You can use PayPal, but you have to do a bit of a work-around.

You sign up for an XROST account, then you transfer funds from PayPal to the XROST account to use at AllofMP3.

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:42 pm

Wally Balljacker wrote: Can you download albums in FLAC?

Just so you know, the recent album I purchased from AllofMP3 gave me a choice to download the album in these lossless formats:

Monkey's Audio Lossless
ofr_ofr_900_lossless - OptimFROG Lossless
flac_flac_900_lossless - FLAC Lossless
wav_wav_1440_lossless - PCM Wave
wma_wma9_900_lossless - WMA 9 Lossless

However, you do pay for the size of files you download (approx $0.02 a MB I believe it is). So the lossless download would cost you more. I checked and this one album of 45 minutes cost me $1.30 for it in 192 kbps OGG, where a FLAC would have been $6.00.

So, the option is there.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:59 am

Well, if you're replacing music you legally purchased, even p2p is legal -- the RIAA said so at one point. I don't have a link or anything, but there was great fanfare on Off The Hook when it happened. Damn, I haven't listened to OTH/OTW in a LONG time (6 months?) -- I think I'm going to replace LugRadio with OTH for "driving to and from work listening" for a while. Maybe listening to Emmanuel bitch will be fun again.

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:34 pm

Snarkout wrote:Well, if you're replacing music you legally purchased, even p2p is legal -- the RIAA said so at one point. I don't have a link or anything, but there was great fanfare on Off The Hook when it happened. Damn, I haven't listened to OTH/OTW in a LONG time (6 months?) -- I think I'm going to replace LugRadio with OTH for "driving to and from work listening" for a while. Maybe listening to Emmanuel bitch will be fun again.

p2p legal?? Have you listened to Episode 34 of T.W.A.T.?

BTW: Why does it change T.W.A.T. (without periods) to 'a rose by any other name'?

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:05 pm

Nope, not yet.

This was a few years back. Essentially, the subject was "fair use" and whether or not it was "fair" if you were licensing music rather than "buying" it that your license was tied to a piece of plastic media. The RIAA said that as log as you could prove that you owned a license for the music you were downloading, they had no problem with it. What this meant was that if you had a scratched CD that you hadn't backed up to mp3, it was ok to pull those same mp3s off of the internet. However, as I say, this was a few years ago, and IIRC it wasn't a legal, signed document or anything, but testimony that was part of the napster (or whoever) trials. I have no idea whether this is legally binding in any way - my guess would be no - but I imagine that you'd have a pretty strong case if they came to your hose to bust you for downloading music, and you could prove you owned a license to the music in question.