If you are a student and not a millionaire, if you don’t like the CD’s from the library, if you don’t like to buy CD’s because you don’t know where to put them, if you don’t like Itunes, and if you have some time you can fix some songs easily.
Audacity is easy to download, and it’s free. No one can say this is illegal, and it reminds me of what we (my friends and I) were doing when we were younger. Back then we had Walkman(s), and we had those kind of cheap earphones, of incredibly good quality, NOT. When we wanted music we bought CD’s, the only problem was we couldn’t put the CD in the Walkman, so what did we do? We put the CD in the CD-player, put a cassette in the cassette player, pressed play and record, at the same time! And listened to the music while we were recording, made little lists and mixes (wrote it down on a piece of paper, that we carried with us - best list wins!). It took time.
This is almost embarrassing, but my (mobile) internet connection is so bad (there’s no reach in the area in which I live) that it’s impossible to download anything, because it takes at least 24 hours. There’s one alternative, that works if you’re not too picky. First you need to download Audacity, then you need some music playing in your computer (ex. a Youtube playlist. I used Spotify). Then you disable the built-in microphone in your computer/laptop, change the record mode from microphone volume to stereo-mix (in Audacity). Start your playlist and press record (choose if you want to listen or not – plug in a pair of ear phones, remember all computer sounds will be recorded so close down your inbox ;)). Either you stop and start the songs, or you can cut it in pieces later. After that you choose: effect, amplify, and then you save the file. Done.
The quality is not the best, it’s emarrrassly cheap, but honestly it works.