Ruckus
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Northwest PA Post Number: 6492 Registered: Jul-06 | Rarely do I ever make an OT thread in this section, but I felt this one was really worth it........ and it's about music which sort of relates to car audio so  Ruckus. www.ruckus.com It's like iTunes or any other online music store, but FREE for anyone with a .edu college email address. Yep, you can download music for free. The ads are how they pay for the music, so help them out and click a few ads when you're there. You register, download the program, and then it connects you to the website where you can browse and download music. Simple as that. Now, the catch is that the music is in protected WMA format with DRM. But that is easily fixed http://www.sendspace.com/file/h9phpp That little program will strip the DRM off the WMA files, with no loss of quality. Then, you can do whatever you want with un-DRM'd files, copy them to other computers, burn to CDs, put on your MP3 player, etc. That program is pretty straight foreword to use, every time you download songs, add them to the list to convert and select a folder to put the unprotected files in. BTW that program will work with files from any other online music store except itunes also. Some people may know about this already, but I just want to throw it out there for those who don't. |
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Gold Member Username: Dakangofkrunk16Boca Raton, Florida Post Number: 1189 Registered: May-07 | Yea i heard about that the other day.. would be cool if i went to College.. but I'm taken a break from skool lol... Thanks anyways |
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Northwest PA Post Number: 6494 Registered: Jul-06 | Got any friends in college? Get one to sign up and let you use their account |
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Gold Member Username: Nyyfan1315 MAG USA Post Number: 8757 Registered: Jul-06 | I'm signed up but never use it. I can't transfer the songs over to iTunes and thats all I use to make/listen to music. I know I have to download some file conversion thing but its just too big of a hassle to go through though. Good place nonetheless. |
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Northwest PA Post Number: 6499 Registered: Jul-06 | It's very simple. You select the files to convert, click one button, and done. |
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Northwest PA Post Number: 6503 Registered: Jul-06 | I thought there'd be more intrest in this........ where does everybody get their music from now? |
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Gold Member Username: Tatonka-[Team Audib... Post Number: 1476 Registered: Mar-07 | Newsgroups and IRC is the way to go. |
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Gold Member Username: •cam•BC Canada Post Number: 2053 Registered: Nov-06 | I use Albumwash/MegaDownload (searches MegaUpload and RapidShare). I'd use this if I was in college or knew someone who would let me use their email. |
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Gold Member Username: ShortysetniesRock Vegas, NC US Post Number: 2247 Registered: Mar-06 | yeah, my girl just got her email address a week or so ago so I might have to try this out. Does it have videos too? I need a good site for music video downloads |
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Gold Member Username: Thumpinwith8s2 RE8s,PG Xenon 400.1, 135.5dbs!!!! Post Number: 1086 Registered: Jun-07 | torrents , good enough for me. |
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Northwest PA Post Number: 6504 Registered: Jul-06 | It does indeed have video........ don't know if they're downloadable or just streaming, never tried it. |
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Silver Member Username: Kyle_lowePost Number: 838 Registered: Apr-06 | i have a mac...i cant do it |
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Silver Member Username: Nickyp0219Post Number: 754 Registered: Jun-06 | yea my friend told me about this a couple weeks ago... already downloaded a couple hundred songs lol.. can dl entire cds w/in a minute its awesome thanks for the info m.s., i was content with just listening to it on my laptop, now i can make cds  |
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Silver Member Username: Stateprop486PA Post Number: 754 Registered: Jan-08 | lol damn i think ima steal ma friends .edu email address haha.. "now i can make cds " makin cds FTL ipod FTW |
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Silver Member Username: Nickyp0219Post Number: 755 Registered: Jun-06 | yea i have an ipod too, but i like cds every once and a while lol im gonna try puttin them into itunes and see if it works today |
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Gold Member Username: Dakangofkrunk16Boca Raton, Florida Post Number: 1192 Registered: May-07 | M.S. i use torrents.. Thats how i got up to 50,000 songs at one point.. Limewire has gotten better so i occasionally use that |
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Gold Member Username: Denali_on_22sThe kids love my rhyme... Post Number: 4418 Registered: Feb-06 | in college you can't use anything except for ruckus to download unless you want your sh1t ripped by the RIAA |
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Gold Member Username: Dakangofkrunk16Boca Raton, Florida Post Number: 1195 Registered: May-07 | Soem colleges have Firewalls.. where u can't use anything else, and some also can't connect to xbox live cause of this firewall.. FAU is one of them schools |
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Gold Member Username: JtownTeam RD, Texas Post Number: 2352 Registered: Mar-07 | router kangology, router....they tried to keep me off xbox live....didn't work. that was when I was in the dorms, course I had to wait til late at night to use it, cause if I tried to use it during the day, I would shut down the internet to my hall....lol |
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Gold Member Username: Dakangofkrunk16Boca Raton, Florida Post Number: 1196 Registered: May-07 | Hey isn't me.. but i'll tell them to try that.. Still sucks any ways cause u have to wait.. i think it is dum how they block that |
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Gold Member Username: JtownTeam RD, Texas Post Number: 2355 Registered: Mar-07 | well I don't have to wait anymore, I'm in an apartment now, and the only good thing about it here, is that I can download music/movies, surf the net, and play xbox live with no LAG what so ever...lol |
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Gold Member Username: JtownTeam RD, Texas Post Number: 2356 Registered: Mar-07 | but yeah I just went and got like a $20 router from BB one day. worked/works just fine |
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Gold Member Username: •cam•BC Canada Post Number: 2057 Registered: Nov-06 | If anyone is feeling extremely nice and wouldn't mind letting me use their account for this (as long as they don't send a link to your email or something that actually requires checking the .edu email address to get the music), that would be really appreciated. camrennie<at>shaw.ca |
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Silver Member Username: DurskiPost Number: 277 Registered: Nov-06 | Router? I'm curious to hear why placing a router in your dorm room would allow you to have access to more ports than you would normally have using the same wall jack that you had hooked up to your computer / xbox. Also shutting down the whole dorm because of it should not happen either. But, I for one know about the quality of IT personnel at colleges, typically less informed than the end users they support, so anything is possible. Speaking of colleges cutting corners in IT, my college has .org emails. There's sooooo much free stuff(usefull stuff, not music) available to .edu addresses, I and some fellow student have tried to make our school see the need to change to .edu with no success. |
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Gold Member Username: JtownTeam RD, Texas Post Number: 2361 Registered: Mar-07 | I'm not sure why, but there was a firewall or something of the sort (I'm unfamiliar with IT), blocking me from connecting to xbox live, I heard a router would work. so I got a cheapo router and it let me connect. as for shutting down, the internet was slow anyway, so during mid-day when there was the most traffic, running xbox live in my room was damn near impossible, I would use up so much bandwidth it would kick me and the rest of the hall off the internet for a time. |
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Silver Member Username: DurskiPost Number: 278 Registered: Nov-06 | So you just went out and bought one, and hooked it up just as it came out of the box? Interesting... I'm a tech geek so I'll prolly mess around with that on my 2 routers and see what happens. |
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Gold Member Username: Andrew571Stillwater/Edmond, Oklahoma USA Post Number: 1514 Registered: Oct-05 | limewire for single random songs.... And torrents for albums |
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Northwest PA Post Number: 6519 Registered: Jul-06 | My school blocks Bittorrent as do many others......... " Speaking of colleges cutting corners in IT, my college has .org emails. " Community college? Only 4+ year schools can get .edu addresses. |
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Silver Member Username: DurskiPost Number: 279 Registered: Nov-06 | It's a 4 year school, just a crappy one to go to if you're not gonna be a nurse, lol, makes for a decent female population though |
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Northwest PA Post Number: 6520 Registered: Jul-06 | I hear that, nursing is one of the biggest majors here also |
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Gold Member Username: JtownTeam RD, Texas Post Number: 2362 Registered: Mar-07 | yeah it wasn't wireless if that's what youre confused about. but I just hooked it up directly, in between my comp and wall socket and xbox. limewire for viruses torrent agents for everything, can't find what you're looking for? use a different host website |
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Silver Member Username: Nickyp0219Post Number: 756 Registered: Jun-06 | M.S. - thanks a ton man, that program finally worked for me.. i had to download another one with it to get a license key or somethin but now its money. gettin em on my ipod now |
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Northwest PA Post Number: 6538 Registered: Jul-06 | Now thats why I posted this...... free, easy music FTW |
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Gold Member Username: JtownTeam RD, Texas Post Number: 2367 Registered: Mar-07 | lol hey M.S. can I get your email? I need to ask you about some stuff pertaining to our vehicles. |
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