Actually you are too late for the good old days of music downloads. The viruses and the jerks have taken over and it's too risky now to download without paying a fee. Also our awaremess of what constitutes "intellectual property" has become more clarified, and well it's not nice tos teal something that someone is selling for money. There are many sites, some you pay a fee for unlimited downloads and others you pay by the album or the song. Find somewhere that has the kind of music you like, join the program, send your fees via PayPal and you are in business. The file sharing programs were fun but are also very dangerous....think of it as STD for computers! You upolad your infected file, I down load it and infect all my files and then I upload it and there you go. Soon a huge percentage of the files are infected. It works much like a photo sharing site like Flicker or photobucket. Linda C

one site I have used for years is garageband, you will not find todays top artist there but you may find some fabulous as yet unknown artists. I like it because of that, it is different and not something I have heard a thousand times. The artist themselves put their music up on the site to be heard and maybe get a break in the industry if enough people download their music and it has definitely happened to a lot of them. Now not all of the ones there have free downloads but many do and there are a lot of categories of music. I have been a member for several years, you can also help by doing the ratings of songs and artists. GarageBand, totally legal personally anytime I download anything to one of my windows machines I just make a habit of right click and scan file prior to opening, it is a good habit to have. Never seen anything bad from garageband downloads

Unless you are paying for the tunes - you may end up with a huge fine. It has been in the news recently. A Minnesota woman, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, was fined 1.92 million dollars for sharing 24 songs in June. Joel Tenenbaum was fined 675,000 on Friday for downloading and sharing 30 songs. Boy - I just don't think it is worth it - not to mention the problems you can run into - like RC described. If you have paid a fee to Limewire and think you are in the clear to d/l music without paying per song - YOU ARE NOT!! YOu have paid a support fee - to Limewire. You really were ripped off. You are still illegally d/l songs. iTunes works great for the iPod - but not for other types of MP3 players. I only use an iPod now - so I am happy with iTunes.

I had a look, thanks. Had a look at your software too. I downloaded two programs which I never heard of :)