How to Download Music on a Windows 2000 Computer
Nowadays very few people keep all their favorite songs on CDs. Because of the availability of the Internet, it has become very convenient to download music on the computer. For downloading songs on your Windows 2000 computer, you have two options: you can either download them from a music store online or use a peer-to-peer application. Both methods are simple and allow you to download as many songs as you want. Once you download the songs, you can keep them on your computer's hard drive and listen whenever you want, or you can burn a CD to enjoy them in your car.
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Instructions
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Download from Music Stores
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Double-click on the desktop shortcut of Internet Explorer or open it from "Programs" in the Start menu.
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Write the address of a search engine in the Web page address field of Internet Explorer, for instance, www.google.com, or www.bing.com.
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Write down the name of a music store where you can download MP3 music. For instance, you can write iTunes store, Amazon, Payplay, Zune Marketplace or Walmart. Press the "Enter" button after entering the name of the particular music store.
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Click the link of the music store from the search engine results.
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Create an account at the online store you have chosen. You will also be required to enter your credit card information for purchasing the songs. For music stores like Zune and iTunes, you further need to download free applications to work on your Windows 2000 PC. These applications will be available at the website.
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Log in to your account by providing the user name and password.
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Use the "Search" bar in the website to search for music. You can enter a title of a song or perhaps the name of the artist. You can also browse different genres and categories and recommendations from the homepage of your account.
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Click on "Buy" right next to the title of the song. The song will start downloading and will save on your desktop or whichever folder you have selected for downloading the songs. The cost of all the music files that you download will appear on the credit card statement.
Download from Peer-to-Peer Applications
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Click on any of the links in Resources to download a p2p application. The application will allow you to download all types of music for free.
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Find and click the button "Download" once you open the Web page of a p2p application.
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Select "Open" to use the setup file temporarily. The p2p application setup file will start downloading. Once it downloads, select "Run" to install the application. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. Once it is installed successfully, open it.
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Find the music that you want to download by entering the name of the artist/ song title/album in the respective fields. Click "Search." You will then see a number of results for the same song. Select a file that has the most number of seeds and peers. The number of seeds and peers will be shown next to the title of the song in the search results. The file will start downloading after you select it.
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Wait for the song to download. Now go to "My Computer," "Drive C" and "Programs." From the list of programs, select the p2p application you downloaded (for example, Emule, Frostwire). Open the folder of the application and go to the "Downloaded" folder for accessing all the songs that you downloaded using this application.
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