Where can i download music for free without getting a virus?

Question

I have a windows 98 computer and i want to know what site can i go to where i can download free music without getting any virus

Answer 1

Just about nowhere. Limewire, Ares, Bearshare, there's all been rumors they all give you viruses over time. The rest of the s*** that'll come up in a search engine's results will more than likely have viruses when you download the songs. The only way to not get viruses these days is to pay for music legally. I'd say try Napster or Rhapsody, they have a lot of different services that'll suit your own needs or try Pandora radio, it'll explore your different music interests for free and you don't have to download anything. From Pandora's site you can download the song from iTunes or by the album from Amazon.com.

Answer 2

With a windows 98 computer there is nowhere to download music for free without getting a virus...you may need to upgrade to windows xp and use limewire....but you have to use mcafee virus scan to clean your computer

Answer 3

There are quiet a few ways to get music off the Internet. I won't go into the legalities of all of them. Obviously, if you are getting someones copyrighted material without paying, then that's probably not legal.



There are services that you can use to get music that WILL pay the artists who created the songs. The most popular are probably...



Apple iTunes -> http://www.itunes.com

Napster -> http://www.napster.com

and even WalMart -> http://www.walmart.com/swap/SwapEntry.do?dslURL=/swap/LoadMain.do%3FmainCategoryId%3D2500



All of these services will sell you songs between .85 and $1.00 per song or so.



There are quite a few services advertised on Clickbank that make the promise that for a one time membership fee, you can download an unlimited number of songs. Here are those services. I cannot attest to how well they work, so research them by visiting them...



Unlimited Download Center -> http://watersaffl.udc01.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS

Movie Downloads.com -> http://watersaffl.movies01.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS

Unlimited MP3 Music -> http://watersaffl.gamecity.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS

Hot MP3 Downloads -> http://watersaffl.mp3hot.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS



I have had good luck finding music on BitTorrent sites. BitTorrent is an Internet protocol for moving very large files. It's not the same as P2P (limewire and such), but it relies on other users in the BitTorrent community leaving their music files available. I have often been frustrated by downloading a song or album only to find that after it downloads 95%, it stops because not enough BitTorrent seeders have kept the files available. The upside to BitTorrents are that they download extremely fast!



You'll need a BitTorrent client to download torrents. I use Azureus. It's a free and very nice client application that you can get here...

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/





You'll also need a few BitTorrent tracker sites. Here are a few to get you started...

TorrentSpy -> http://www.torrentspy.com/

The Pirates Bay -> http://thepiratebay.org/

ISO Hunt -> http://isohunt.com/

MiniNova -> http://www.mininova.org



Finally, I have had great luck finding unknown artists by using an NNTP News Server. NNTP is an old Bulletin Board type of protocol. NNTP means Network News Transport Protocol. But the NNTP community has evolved into about 50,000 different 'channels' that cover every imaginable subject and there is a way to 'encode' binary files to place them on these NNTP groups. For music, music is grouped into different 'genres'. For example, I download Jazz and Reggae from two different channels. It is not easy to find any particular song or artist, so I just download everything in a group and often find songs and artists that I've never heard of before.



To download music from NNTP groups, you'll need a News Reader. There are some free ones out there. I use this one...

http://www.newsbinpro.com/



Well, that ought to keep you busy for a while! Good luck!

Answer 4

No Matter where you download music for free you will eventually get a virus, no doubt about it.

I suggest http://limewire.com for ease of use though.

If you run regular virus scans however you should be fine.

Answer 5

Use a torrent site. limewire has virus. Try www.turrentreactor.net /www.demonoid.com/www.piratebay.com And it is totally FREE!

Answer 6

You can always download MyKazaa, I use that and it works pretty well.



There's a subscriber service but it's something like 5 dollars a year for unlimited downloads.

Answer 7

Limewire or dc++

Answer 8

dogpile.

or straight off the artist's website.

Answer 9

lime wire or dogpile or xanga or projectplalist.com

Answer 10

thats almost impossible

Answer 11

google it

Answer 12

limewire or soulseek

Answer 13

LIMEWIRE!!