Introduction
Last week we showed you how to download music legally, but we know that the people from our generation, people who are students nowadays are more attracted on how to download music without spending money, for free.
Rudy and I are masters on this field, so we are going to show you the strings to learn how to get on the action and download your own music the "bad" ways, using the power of internet.
Rip music from YouTube :
We are going to show you the site that we use the most, it's called http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ , and there is other sites that offers the same services.
We use that one because it has a simple interface for pulling audio files from YouTube videos and saving them as MP3s.
This is a simple way to get songs you want quickly, though it has some drawbacks: the quality of your MP3 files will be fairly low, and the quality of the sound can't be improved if it was already poor on the YouTube video itself.
Additionally, any empty space or non-musical parts of a video will also be ripped.
However, the process is very easy: just paste the URL of the video you want into the text box and click "Convertir la video" which means "Convert Video." We are also giving you free courses in French, isn't that nice from us?
Download music directly
If you are a lazy person and you don't want to cut and paste links, we have the solution for you. There is some sites without many restrictions on content where music enthusiasts gather and share albums for free, you can have them by direct download. These sites are your paradise.
Typically, one user will post a compressed file containing an entire album to a file hosting site. He or she will then post a link to the download, along with a description of the music, and a YouTube sample, if there's one available. All you need to do to download the music is visit the address that user provided and click "download."
You need to be aware of the viruses that can end up on your laptop while you download files. Always keep your antivirus program on when directly downloading files. The joke will be on you if you end up with a corrupted laptop, and you don't want that for sure.
What you want is to download the "Macarena song" the safest illegal way and dance on it all night long.
Torrent music
You are lucky, we have another way to help you get what you want, it's called Torrent music and it is one of the most popular ways to get music.
To torrent music, you need a program that can read torrent files, and the proper torrent file for the music you want to download. You can find many torrents simply by performing a web search, and you can also find a vast private collections of music that's sometimes unavailable anywhere else.
Torrenting music is better for acquiring older and more mainstream releases than for newer and underground releases.
Once you download the torrent file, it should open automatically in your torrent program. If there are enough seeders (people sharing the album), your copy should download quickly.
Check to be sure you know where your torrents download so that you don't lose track of any of them.
Once your torrent finishes downloading, it's considered polite to become a seeder yourself by leaving the program running.
You don't have to if you don't want to, but it does help other users (people just like you) get the music more quickly and easily.
Download music on a peer-to-peer network:
You want more tricks to get free music? Well, you knocked on the right door, we have another trick for you, and it is called Peer-to-peer networks.
Peer-to-peer networks require a special program to interface with. Your only real concern is choosing the program whose interface you like the best (as the files being shared are identical across all of them).
There are also programs that run on separate peer-to-peer networks, such as Soulseek.
Since you're snagging files directly from other users' hard drives, you'll need to wait until someone with the music you want is online before you can get it; however, this isn't usually a problem as peer-to-peer file sharing is very popular.
Soulseek in particular is an excellent place to find all sorts of music files. It can even rival the selection of private torrent communities.
To download most music on Soulseek, you'll need to share some or all of your own music collection with its users in return.
Depending on the client you use, peer-to-peer file downloading can be dangerous. Always check the file extension to be sure it's actually a music file before you download it, and check the file size to see if it's reasonable for the length and recording quality of the song.
Soulseek, with its heavy emphasis on music, is relatively safe in this regard, but you should be wary no matter which network you use.