Chapter 7. Understanding Music Downloading

To many music lovers, digital music is all about the downloading. That is, you find the music you want somewhere on the web, and then you download a digital copy of that track or album to your computer, for future listening.

Music downloading is actually a fairly simple process, once you make a few basic decisions, get everything configured properly, and—oh, yeah—find a good site to download from. There are sites that let you download music for free and others that function like web-based versions of those old school record stores you might remember from your youth. ...

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