downloading music!?!?!?

Question

so i have a windows pc, and i have yahoo musicmatch jukebox that came with my computer and that is where i have been downloading my songs from. well i recently got itunes, cuz they have more songs, but when i went to get all the songs i already have on my comp onto itunes, it would only add the ones that i had burned off a CD, not the ones i had bought. it says that the songs i bought are in a protected WMA format and it cant convert it to AAC or w/e. how do i get ALL my songs that are already on my computer onto my music in itunes!?!?! HELP MEEEEE!!!! I NEED MY MUSIC!!!!!

Answer 1

Dont use yahoo music thing you should download LIMEWIRE has free downloads and you dont have to pay per song.

Answer 2

The problem is that the music that's bought off of Musicmatch, and off of Itunes are in two different formats, and neither of them are normally compatible with each other. Before you can play or add a Musicmatch track on Itunes, you'll have to convert it(I found this site - http://www.soundtaxi.info/ - which has a program that'll convert protected WMA and AAC files.)

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

Burn them to a CD through Windows media player. Then you can add them from the CD

And Don't use Limewire unless you like virus's