LOVE the music on PDR!!!! Great job, Lisa

Lisa, are you still using LimeWire? I deleted because T had me scared to use it b/c of viruses, bit I understand it's pretty safe now. What I want is to make a cd w/ the bad 80's music I love. I had Napster & when I had time, I loved picking different songs to listen to that I hadn't heard in forever; I bought a few (for my Christmas mix cd that I made for you & Susan & haven't mailed, lol). When my free subscription was over, I couldn't justify $10 a month, plus additional cost if I wanted it on my mp3 player or a cd. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Loving listening to Cecilia on PDR!!!

Kelly

That reminds me, I haven't updated the mix in a week! I'm usually a lot more on-top-of-it than that. I'll have to try and do it today.

I have Limewire, but I don't use it often. The Limewire software is perfectly legal to have. How you use it may not be. If you use it to download music that you haven't paid for, then it's illegal. I mostly use it to download songs that I had on vinyl or cassette (or on a CD I don't feel like looking for). I figure I paid for them once and I shouldn't have to pay to get them in a new format. I don't know if that will hold water in court, but it works for me, morally I also use it when I am looking to fit a particular theme. Like last November when I wanted to play Thanksgiving music, I downloaded any song I could find with "thanks" in the title. At least half of them I listened to and promptly deleted because I didn't like them. The ones I did like, inspired me to look for other music by those artists and they made money off of me eventually. Again, not a great legal argument... I don;t think viruses are an issue if you are careful about what you download (and you have a good virus scanner as backup just in case). I honestly hadn't thought about the virus issue...

I still mostly buy traditional CDs, but if I do feel like downloading music I go to iTunes or one of the other sites that charges a per-song rate but no subscription fee. Sometimes if you go straight to an artist's web page, they are selling their songs directly as downloads. I like to do that when I can because more money goes into the artist's pocket that way.

Hope this helps!
Lisa

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By updating the mix, do you mean the order of the songs? I've noticed that when I'm here at night and listening, I'm hearing the same Echo and the Bunnymen song Hey, I like it, so it doesn't matter LOL

-Angela, Mom to Drew
Drew and I riding Thomas the Tank Engine

By "updating the mix" what I meant was swapping out a number of songs for new ones. I get enough storage space for about 7 hours of music, and I try to swap out about 25 tunes every 2 or 3 days. Unfortunately, I had recently let it go about TEN days. So, you've been hearing the same stuff over and over.

I swapped out 60 songs a few days ago, and hopefully I'll get the chance to do another batch tomorrow.

Lisa

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I have had it for 1 1/2 years, I got it for raising money for the leukemia light the night walk, but thought T would like it. Since he hasn't used it, I finally took it out of the box last & bought some itunes.

Oh yea,I'm cool now

Thanks for your info, Lisa.

Kelly

mom to Caroline Macy (3/10/00) & Wyatt Thomas (1/6/02)