Replenishing my music library

[Hintzyboy 5,000+ posts]

So, for some reason, a bunch of files disappeared on my external HDD and most of my music is gone. I was in the process of re-organizing and re-burning all my CDs, so a lot of my music wasn't on disks so I can't just import it. Plus, the Ruckus site (where I download all my music from) apparently shut down so I can't re-download everything either. This is seriously like the perfect fuccking storm of data loss.

 

So I need some help replenishing my lost music. I don't like P2P clients because the quality always sucks and you have to hunt for stuff individually. I've really never used torrents at all. I guess the easiest way would be if someone had a spare demonoid invite or something.

 

Otherwise, I have tunebite, so if anyone can recommend a service like ruckus or rhapsody that lets you download the music cheap, I can remove the DRM from it so it's useable.

 

 

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me

 

Aaron

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[95BlackGA 5,000+ posts]

Demonoid invite sent via PM.

 

[Proximity 10+ year member]

Torrents are the best way.

 

[Dak446 10+ year member]

Demonoid invite sent via PM.

what is this demonoid invite of which u speak???//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

Torrents are the best way. Look for FLAC, WAV or Apple LOSSLESS if you want music worth listening to, quality wise.

 

[95BlackGA 5,000+ posts]

what is this demonoid invite of which u speak???//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

It's a semi-private torrent site/tracker

 

[Dak446 10+ year member]

how exactly does that work? how do i get all up in it?

 

[Hintzyboy 5,000+ posts]

Demonoid invite sent via PM.

Thank you sir. I really didn't want to sign up for a subscription service like rhapsody or something. Ruckus was free through my school, so the $30 I spend on Tunebite was worth all the DRM-free music I ended up with. I have no idea why that stuff disappeared either. iTunes can find a bunch of stuff on the disc that isn't there when I go to look for it. Just wierd circumstance.

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

Tonight, I borrowed my friend's external hard drive. 160gb of music, mostly classic rock. FTMFW.

 

[Hintzyboy 5,000+ posts]

And 95BlackGA, the code worked. Thanks a ton man. I was really dreading trying to restore all this stuff. I don't have a TON of music, but searching for 350 albums song-by-song trying to find a good copy was not a pleasant thought.

 

[Hintzyboy 5,000+ posts]

So now the second partition on my hard drive (freshly free from Windows 7) and my external HDD will soon be formatted. Then, it's time to fill them both up with free music

 

[Hintzyboy 5,000+ posts]

Oh, speaking of external HDDs, anyone ever switch the drive out on one? I'm thinking of upgrading the 160gb WD external HDD I have to a TB, but want to make sure it will work right. I'm assuming that there shouldn't be any problems since it's just a fancy case with a normal WD HDD in it. Only thing I think I should need to do is make sure I match the connectors (IDE/SATA/whatever) match up.