Mp3 Music Napster
Why it’s best NOT to use P2P programs to get free music and videos, and a suitable alternative method
I remember spending hours in front of the PC years ago slowly downloading mp3 music (and several viruses also) from ‘Napster’ through a dial up connection.
Thankfully nowadays things have changed for the better; with super fast broadband connection and mega efficient anti-virus software downloading anything has become commonplace because it’s now easier, quicker, and safer.
First though let me briefly explain what p2p is about (just in case you don’t know).
P2p is short for ‘peer to peer’ and basically this means a software program that allows you to connect directly with other p2p users and download or upload files direct from and to the other user without the need of a middle-man, so to speak (for example: ‘winmx‘, ‘limewire‘ etc. but there are many others). It can be likened to having a connection direct to your friends computer without nothing in between, then you can access each others files without anything else getting involved. So effectively if you or the other user have any virus files on their system there’s nothing in between to stop them.
As I mentioned earlier, modern anti-virus protection will in most cases stop any virus entering your system, or at the very least warn you about any impending viral issues, but like most contraception methods nothing is 100% guaranteed protection.
So what’s another way?
How about using internet video sites. The biggest and most famous of course is ‘YouTube‘ but there are lots of others out there, you just need to sign up (or if for example the site is adult orientated, you just need to confirm you’re over 18 years of age) and you have access to thousands or even millions of free streamed videos (known as flv. files). The big advantage for us is that with these sites files are automatically checked for virus before they are permitted on the site (just what we need, safe files).
“Yes that’s OK Pete but don’t you need to watch these vids sort of live as they’re streaming?”
As a general rule, yes you do, that’s what you’re meant to do! But do you know that with the right software – available totally free through the internet – you can download these videos to your computer, convert them to almost any format (such as ‘mpg’, ‘mp4′, ‘3g’ for example), copy only the audio part of the video to use as ‘wav’ or ‘mp3′ music/sound file, or even get a ‘codec’ to use with ‘windows media player’ so that you can actually watch the flv. streamed video through ‘media player’.
So there you have it, though only briefly; download the vid and save it on your computer, watch it whenever you want (with help from the codec) through ‘media player’, perhaps convert it to dvd or mpg or whatever, or if you like, copy the audio from it and use it as a music file.
Just type: ‘free video downloader’, ‘free flv codec for media player’, ‘free video converter’, ‘free video audio extractor’ or similar into a good search engine (I suggest ‘google’) and check them out.
‘Media Tailor’
About the Author
The above is covered in more detail in my new ebook available now go to http://store.payloadz.com/go?id=947456
Visit my ‘Free Media’ blog at http://mediatailor.wordpress.com/
Pete Etheridge
Internet scavenger
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