In the days when most people had dialup internet, you could download music in the MP3 format one track at a time through Peer to Peer programs like Napster.

Today, broadband has allowed users to download music albums and music videos rather than individual tracks through broadband friendly Peer to Peer programs like Bittorrrent.

Whilst most public and membership BitTorrent sites provide torrents to download music it is the music only sites  which just specialises in music downloads and music video downloads.

The sheer speed of broadband connections these days combined with the easy and efficiency of downloading music by BitTorrent means that many albums are released in high quality high bitrate versions.

At MP3 bitrates of 192kbps and above it is very difficult to tell the difference between them and the original cd music source. Using the speed and efficiency of BitTorrent to download music means you are able to grab high bitrate albums and sometimes even direct copies of the released CD’s