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So, I bought my old man an Ipod nano for christmas, and he's finally getting into the thing. As you all know of course, Itunes is teh suxors, 'cause it does not support south african customers.

So the question is, what other sites do you guys recommend for "easy" music purchasing. Remember, this is my old man, and he not exactly the most technologically inclined guy. He also does not listen to death metal, afaik, so that sort of site won't help much.

Lastly, is there any way to load album art other than through Itunes?

help appreciated!
 
Come on, surely SOME of you actually purchase your music legally?
 
Buy any music from anywhere.

Import it to the Itunes player on you're PC and load it to your Ipod. :p
 
dotVIBE said:
So, I bought my old man an Ipod nano for christmas, and he's finally getting into the thing. As you all know of course, Itunes is teh suxors, 'cause it does not support south african customers.

So the question is, what other sites do you guys recommend for "easy" music purchasing. Remember, this is my old man, and he not exactly the most technologically inclined guy. He also does not listen to death metal, afaik, so that sort of site won't help much.

Lastly, is there any way to load album art other than through Itunes?

help appreciated!
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Are you confusing the app iTunes with the iTunes store? The app is the best way to manage music on an ipod regardless of where you purchase it (unless it is a protected windows media file in which case you're SOL).

I import the majority of my artwork into iTunes from walmark.com - locate the music, highlite the album in iTunes and just drag and drop the artwork in.
 
Yeah, I mean iTunes store. I need some alternatives.
Thanx for the walmart tip, nice one!
 
dotVIBE said:
Yeah, I mean iTunes store. I need some alternatives.
Thanx for the walmart tip, nice one!
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There's also amazon.com but walmark has higher quality images. :)
 
BitTorrent, Emule, Kazaa...

Of course, I am suggesting you use these tools to download legal free tracks. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah, thanx. Listen, there's nothing you can tell me a bout P2P that i don't know. I'm looking for sites similar to iTunes Store, but usable by south african consumers.
Thanks anyway.
 
dotVIBE said:
Yeah, thanx. Listen, there's nothing you can tell me a bout P2P that i don't know. I'm looking for sites similar to iTunes Store, but usable by south african consumers.
Thanks anyway.
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If you really want to buy your music. Tell me what u want and pay me for it. I'll upload it on a FTP for you :D
 
P2P suck , Choose song download then its either not the right song or the quality is terrible. Me prefer the Russians good quality and price.
 
Pitbull said:
If you really want to buy your music. Tell me what u want and pay me for it. I'll upload it on a FTP for you :D
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Dude, I have about 60GB's worth of tunes (btw, soulseek is best ;))
I need something for my parents to use.
 
My suggestion would be: mediamonkey - great library organiser, supports EVERYTHING - downloads cover art from amazon and you can buy from there too. Active and vibey users forum, great cd burning, light footprint basically teh roxors!
I have been using the gold version for like 3 years and I'm still finding great new features tucked away here and there.

Oh and you can arrange your drive YOUR way - I just keep MM open in the system tray (or set it to auto update on opening) and any change in the directory structure is automatically detected and the library updated. The only time that MM as wasted my time is when I was trying to figure out how to do something it had already done in the background:)
 
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dotVIBE said:
...As you all know of course, Itunes ... does not support south african customers
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that is the main problem right there, cause there are just no viable, legal options to purchase music in sa. of course, you could try musica or pick n play, but the songs are in .wma format and then there are all those drm issues, etc, etc... (and does wma even play on ipods?)

so not a whole lot of options, i'm afraid :(
 
bwana said:
I import the majority of my artwork into iTunes from walmark.com - locate the music, highlite the album in iTunes and just drag and drop the artwork in.
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Does this drag and drop solution still work in the latest version of iTunes (7.3.1 I think) ?
 
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