Comments on: I need a good music free music search engine? http://spocialmedia.com/48/i-need-a-good-music-free-music-search-engine/ sorting the wheat from the chaffq Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:12:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: samantha http://spocialmedia.com/48/i-need-a-good-music-free-music-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-109 samantha Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:01:59 +0000 http://spocialmedia.com/48/i-need-a-good-music-free-music-search-engine/#comment-109 It is illegal to download copyrighted material (including music) without permission of the copyright holder. There are legal sites where you can download music but no legal site offers "free downloads" for most popular/well known music. These sites sell music from most of the major labels legally and most of these downloads are MP3 files. (as opposed to WMA files which have DRM and are a pain in the a## to work with.) http://www.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download http://www.mp3.com/ http://mp3.walmart.com/store/home http://www.emusic.com/ http://mp3.rhapsody.com/home.html http://napster.com There are streaming music sites where you can listen to the radio (usually ad supported) These sites offer streaming music for free. http://pandora.com http://rhapsody.com http://tuneric.com http://spotify.com http://www.last.fm another comment suggested SpiralFrog which is legal and legitimate, the songs are licensed directly from Universal, EMI, etc. However you must fill out surveys to renew the licenses monthly and the songs are protected with DRM and you won't be able to burn them to CD, Copy them to an MP3 player etc. And they are only available as WMA files not MP3. These sites have freely and legally downloadable music. You may not know any of the artists but all of them feature music that is legally available for free and a lot of it is quite good. http://ilike.com/ http://www.altsounds.com/ http://bt.etree.org/ http://stereogum.com/ http://2007.sxsw.com/toolbox/ http://www.honc.biz/ http://www.garageband.com/ http://www.indierockcafe.com/ http://www.dmusic.com/ http://www.fuzz.com/ http://www.archive.org/details/audio http://www.jamendo.com/ http://www.peoplesound.com/ http://www.epitonic.com/ http://www.fatwreck.com/audio/ http://www.hell-cat.com/ http://www.subpop.com/ http://www.hell-cat.com/ http://www.stereokiller.com/index.cfm http://www.anti.com/home/ http://3hive.com/ http://www.itsfreedownloads.com/ http://www.mp3.com/free-music/free-mp3s http://www.purevolume.com/ http://www.last.fm/music/+free http://www.stage.fm/ http://www.isound.com/ http://www.we7.com/ http://www.spiralfrog.com/ http://www.blentwell.com/ http://www.mtv.com/music/downloads/ http://www.classiccat.net/ http://www.spinner.com/category/mp3-of-t…<br><b>References : </b><br> It is illegal to download copyrighted material (including music) without permission of the copyright holder. There are legal sites where you can download music but no legal site offers "free downloads" for most popular/well known music.
These sites sell music from most of the major labels legally and most of these downloads are MP3 files. (as opposed to WMA files which have DRM and are a pain in the a## to work with.)

http://www.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download
http://www.mp3.com/
http://mp3.walmart.com/store/home
http://www.emusic.com/
http://mp3.rhapsody.com/home.html
http://napster.com

There are streaming music sites where you can listen to the radio (usually ad supported)

These sites offer streaming music for free.
http://pandora.com
http://rhapsody.com
http://tuneric.com
http://spotify.com
http://www.last.fm

another comment suggested SpiralFrog which is legal and legitimate, the songs are licensed directly from Universal, EMI, etc. However you must fill out surveys to renew the licenses monthly and the songs are protected with DRM and you won’t be able to burn them to CD, Copy them to an MP3 player etc. And they are only available as WMA files not MP3.

These sites have freely and legally downloadable music. You may not know any of the artists but all of them feature music that is legally available for free and a lot of it is quite good.

http://ilike.com/
http://www.altsounds.com/
http://bt.etree.org/
http://stereogum.com/
http://2007.sxsw.com/toolbox/
http://www.honc.biz/
http://www.garageband.com/
http://www.indierockcafe.com/
http://www.dmusic.com/
http://www.fuzz.com/
http://www.archive.org/details/audio
http://www.jamendo.com/
http://www.peoplesound.com/
http://www.epitonic.com/
http://www.fatwreck.com/audio/
http://www.hell-cat.com/
http://www.subpop.com/
http://www.hell-cat.com/
http://www.stereokiller.com/index.cfm
http://www.anti.com/home/
http://3hive.com/
http://www.itsfreedownloads.com/
http://www.mp3.com/free-music/free-mp3s
http://www.purevolume.com/
http://www.last.fm/music/+free
http://www.stage.fm/
http://www.isound.com/
http://www.we7.com/
http://www.spiralfrog.com/
http://www.blentwell.com/
http://www.mtv.com/music/downloads/
http://www.classiccat.net/
http://www.spinner.com/category/mp3-of-t…
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