Talk:Music download

message: I have nominated this article for a POV check as I get a general feeling it may be biased towards the view that sees P2P and other forms of free downloads as acceptable. In any case I feel that this article needs to be expanded and better researched to develop a clear view of the subject. Is there no other article that covers the same subject? [[User:Madeinsane|Madeinsane]ok lol smiley face old dirty farts ] 21:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV Check 

message: Wikipedia might be a massive storagebase of knowledge, but I doubt that anyone would really be able to give a clear, concise, and verifiable history of music downloading. I guess you could start with the creation of the MP3 format, which enabled music to be easily transfered and stored in a smaller digital format (while maintaining high quality), but what about the time prior to the MP3?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blake.Schneider (talk • contribs) 23:47, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The current definition is incorrect.  How about correcting it a bit so that Wikipedia as an encyclopedia becomes that little bit more correct?  A music download is the digital transfer of music from one computing device to another (a general purpose computer or a digital music player) via a communications medium such as the Internet or a bulletin board.  Note: the capability to decode or playback a piece of music doesn't mean it wasn't downloaded - heck... i used to download music on my 8bit Amstrad CPC via Uni's shell account and that is digital and music and download.  It's sad to see articles written in a way simplified so much they actually become not the truth... Even worst when someone comes along writing such a definition publishing it as a fact without required Wikipedia Citations, then... in other articles you are not allowed actual facts without a Citation if you were the founder of the evidence - unless you choose to make your own website and cite youself... bizzare... comment added by ZhuLien (talk) 15:32, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: While technically true that the receiving device doesn't have to have playback capability, this is kind of what distinguishes a music download from just a digital download or transfer. It is only music if it is played back, otherwise it's data. You could download an MP3 file onto a memory stick but that's just file transfer and is not a music download in any meaningful way. I'm not sure what your point about citations is; everything in the main body of an article should be cited (although this article does have a hatnote saying it needs improvement) but the lede doesn't need citations if it merely summarises the body (as it should). You can't cite yourself or any self-published website. I agree the article needs more stuff on the history music downloads. Btljs (talk) 11:47, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
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message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Music download's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "hot100":
From Gwen Stefani: 
From Hold It Against Me: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 13:18, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Music download]] 

message: I would like this song in music pleeyer Bryanna Douglas (talk) 23:04, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
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message: It seems like the picture of the Itunes store doesn't seem right. New versions of iTunes have a better design - more modern. Can someone find a better picture that still fits? God286 (talk) 07:37, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
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