<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hello Brian, Thanks for those sites.Jamendo is good,the audio quality is really great. <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ---- From: Brian Burger <blurdesign@gmail.com> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 12:01:28 AM Subject: Re: A legal music downloading service that works on Linux <div>On 5/19/07, Tom Mckay <tom.mckay1@gmail.com> wrote: > For those of you who are looking for legal music for the linux > platform, I would highly recommend all of your to give <a target="_blank" href="http://last.fm">http://last.fm</a> > a try. It's not exactly a downloading service (although there are > thousands of free tracks available), but more of an internet radio > variety. For actual downloading, free & legal, there's two sites I've been exploring a lot in the last couple of moths: Jamendo & Etree. Jamendo (jamendo.com) is a free downloadable music centre, mostly of CC-licensed music. Nice website, lots of ways to discover/search for music. The selection is heavily shifted toward electronica, but there's rock, pop, classical, folk, world, and lots of mixed-genre music. Their tracks are also avaible both in mp3 & ogg, which is cool. The actual downloads from Jamendo are via either BitTorrrent or EMule - isn't it nice that Ubuntu has built-in torrent handling? E-Tree (etree.org/bt) is a torrent-tracking site for band-approved fan-recorded concert recordings. All sorts of artists, major and minor - Radiohead, Dave Matthews Band & Canada's own Tragically Hip are among three of my recent downloads. Be warned these are *huge* torrent downloads - they're uncompressed CD-quality FLAC files, mostly, and of full-length concerts, so most downloads are 300+MB - biggest set I pulled down was just over 1GB, for a Hip concert almost two hours long. On my Last.fm account (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.last.fm/user/wirelizard/">http://www.last.fm/user/wirelizard/</a> if anyone really wants to see) I've been using the 'jamendo' and 'etree' tags on the songs I get from those two sources. On a related music-on-computers note, the EFF just launched PlayOGG.org, to encourage people to use non-patent-encumbered format for their music. I've got over 60GB of music on my harddrive, and it's all legal - thanks both to relatively-sane Canadian copyright law & legal torrents! Brian ubuntu.ca wirelizard.ca -- ubuntu-ca mailing list ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com <a target="_blank" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </div></div> </div></div></body></html>