Songbeat is a desktop music search using Seeqpod technology. It comes with a built-in player and you can search your favorite song directly from your desktop.
The download speed is actually faster than P2P sharing. It is safe to use, because Songbeat does not access your hard drive. All musics shared are already available online, which means you actually download those music from the internet, not from others’ computer. The musics search take only seconds.
There are Basic and Pro version. Basic version is free but Pro version cost $15. The Pro version will not contains any ad and you can get unlimited music downloads. Currently, Songbeat support 10 languages and only available for Windows XP and Vista, the Mac version is coming soon.
I use Videoraptor to download videos, it is legal and it can extract the sound from the videos: http://audials.com/en/audials_one/download_music/index.html
thax………