best site to download to mp3 player

apples1

just got our daughter cheap mp3 player for her birthday. want to put some "pop" songs on it before wrapping it. she is about to be six and just getting into music!

which is a good site to use. i tunes only for i pods and some others i have found are subscription only.

thanks in advance

Marty_J

apples1 wrote: »

just got our daughter cheap mp3 player for her birthday. want to put some "pop" songs on it before wrapping it. she is about to be six and just getting into music!

which is a good site to use. i tunes only for i pods and some others i have found are subscription only.

thanks in advance

iTunes isn't only for iPods; the iTunes plus tracks will work on any mp3 player that supports AAC files.

To answer your question, you could give play.com a try. They seem to be pretty cheap.

GunJack

...or just rip some of her fave tracks off her CDs and pop them on for her....and it's free

Domokun

If you're opening the box of the MP3 player, the CD generally includes software to 'rip' from a CD to an MP3 file. This can also be done using Windows Media Player.

The above suggested music sites are OK.

superscaper

GunJack wrote: »

...or just rip some of her fave tracks off her CDs and pop them on for her....and it's free

A bit off topic but has anyone heard when they're going to make this legal? (Last I heard was a final public consultation this summer). Just a personal curiosity.

Domokun

More details of the legality here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#Legality

Essentially (almost) every single person to ever own a music player device is 'guilty' of this, so it has no legitimate implications for Average Joe. Allegedly.

Marty_J

superscaper wrote: »

A bit off topic but has anyone heard when they're going to make this legal? (Last I heard was a final public consultation this summer). Just a personal curiosity.

They're doing a second consultation sometime this year:

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/about/about-consult/about-formal/about-formal-current/consult-copyrightexceptions.htm

Marty_J

Domokun wrote: »

More details of the legality here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#Legality

Essentially (almost) every single person to ever own a music player device is 'guilty' of this, so it has no legitimate implications for Average Joe. Allegedly.

True, but it's always nice when the law is introduced to reality.

bob_a_builder

http://www.we7.com/

missterial

superscaper wrote: »

A bit off topic but has anyone heard when they're going to make this legal? (Last I heard was a final public consultation this summer). Just a personal curiosity.

I am a bad girl since I thought it was OK to copy my CDs to my mp3 player and have about 30Gb of MP3s on my computer. Just about everybody I know with an MP3 player is the same so I am guessing we can not all be taken to court.

superscaper

missterial wrote: »

I am a bad girl since I thought it was OK to copy my CDs to my mp3 player and have about 30Gb of MP3s on my computer. Just about everybody I know with an MP3 player is the same so I am guessing we can not all be taken to court.

Why would anyone be taken to court? The BPI themselves have actually gone on record to say they would never prosecute for it and they themselves are lobbying for the change in the law to legalise what everyone does anyway.