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Homegrown music?
You know how people go on American Idol looking to be "big stars"? Well I suppose that a service like Soundclick is a place to turn for those who didn't make it. They might have sounded bad on American Idol, but actually I was amazed by some of the unknown artists placing their music on Soundclick. Take this artist, auditory, rap isn't exactly my favorite music, but they do a pretty good job creating their own beats.
get started? visit soundclick.com
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QTrax: Free Legal Mp3 Downloads
0 Comments Published by Nick on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 10:21 AM.
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What does qTrax offer?
Free Legal Mp3 Downloads of course. But seriously, qTrax tells use ,"Qtrax is NOT just another P2P network, yet everything is legal. My question is of course is, if this is another p2p service, how will users be able to share files, yet keep everything legal? They are claiming that the advertising used in this service helps pay for the cost of each one of the downloads we make on the site. That and perhaps the lack of newly released music makes qTrax a very viable option for downloading music.
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Free Full Mp3 Albums - Full-Albums.net
0 Comments Published by Nick on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 5:28 AM.
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The "Free Full Mp3 Album Download" Site I Use
Lately, I've been using full-albums.net when I really need an album. I can't promise this site is in anyway legit, only that I have gotten an album or two off this site with very little effort. Take Marsmobil - Minx, an album I recently downloaded off the site. I had been unable to locate it anywhere else, so I took the chance and got my "Free Full Mp3 Album Download" from full-albums.net.
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Ever growing mp3 collection
Just how large is my mp3 collection? I downloaded over 120 gbs of music, much of it legal. I use services like spacelab to find music that makes my friends go, huh who was that? It's perfect if you own a cafe or a nightclub.
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The Music is linked to site EMI music, where the free songs will need to be claimed.
http://www.nowhat.com/emi/default.aspx
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I never really put much thought into Hindu music, but recently I was pointed out to http://www.123musiq.com/. This site offers exclusively Indian music, whether it's Indian mp3 music soundtracks, or Indian mp3 pop albums.
Too Many Ads?
Like most music sites, you will have to navigate through the various ads. Though, most of us can distinguish between what is an ad and what isn't.
Overwhelmed?
If you are new to the world of Indian music, you might find yourself overwhelmed and uncertain what Indian music to download. I'd recommend look at the newest songs and working from there, otherwise, just dive in and see what pleases you!
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Too Many Ads?
Like most music sites, you will have to navigate through the various ads. Though, most of us can distinguish between what is an ad and what isn't.
Overwhelmed?
If you are new to the world of Indian music, you might find yourself overwhelmed and uncertain what Indian music to download. I'd recommend look at the newest songs and working from there, otherwise, just dive in and see what pleases you!
Visit 123Musiq.comt
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Sometimes I have to take a break from electronic and rock music to listen to something simpler and somewhat brain challenging. Karadar seems to be the perfect for solution for those looking to hearing classical music, where its classical Bach, Beethoven, or Byrd Karadar has it for free, legal, and in the Mp3 format.
Just Classical Music?
I made the mistake of searching for Radiohead at first. Of course Radiohead never composed classical music. It can be much easier browser by letter rather than searching for a certain artist.
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Just Classical Music?
I made the mistake of searching for Radiohead at first. Of course Radiohead never composed classical music. It can be much easier browser by letter rather than searching for a certain artist.
Visit Karadar
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100% legal mp3s, What is the Catch?
0 Comments Published by Nick on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 4:14 AM.
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So you paid $25 for an mp3 program that claims that its services are 100% legal and with it you can download all the mp3s you want. What is the catch?
Don't pay for illegal file downloaders
You might have seen services out there claiming 100% legal service. Just a $25 sign up fee and you are ready to go. Don't pay it! All these 100% "legal" mp3 services is do is take money out of your bank account and give you programs that otherwise would have been free. What they aren't telling you is, these programs are illegal. Record companies do not get any money from your subscription, probably just some guy in Romania who is making a living off your mistake.
Get File Sharing Free
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Don't pay for illegal file downloaders
You might have seen services out there claiming 100% legal service. Just a $25 sign up fee and you are ready to go. Don't pay it! All these 100% "legal" mp3 services is do is take money out of your bank account and give you programs that otherwise would have been free. What they aren't telling you is, these programs are illegal. Record companies do not get any money from your subscription, probably just some guy in Romania who is making a living off your mistake.
Get File Sharing Free
You can download
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Some Songs, Downloading Free Legal Mp3s Online
0 Comments Published by Nick on Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 3:38 AM.
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SomeSongs.com offers just that, some songs. It updates a new listing of free music tracks everyday with no songs hosted directly on SomeSongs, rather everything is linked to that respected artist's music site. Considering everything on this site is considered legal, you won't find the latest Madonna or Radiohead album, rather a mix of interesting tracks by artists like the Von Bots or Eftos.
Is interesting better?
Some would say that the interesting range of free music out there is better than the music being promoted by rich record labels. Aren't artists just a little more creative when they have to fend for their own with no one supporting them? Most of the artists on SomeSongs will probably be your first and maybe last listen but, consider that the artists here are just trying to make good beats. Some of the free legal mp3s will even be infinately better than anything you'll here on a Record Label supported album.
Is interesting better?
Some would say that the interesting range of free music out there is better than the music being promoted by rich record labels. Aren't artists just a little more creative when they have to fend for their own with no one supporting them? Most of the artists on SomeSongs will probably be your first and maybe last listen but, consider that the artists here are just trying to make good beats. Some of the free legal mp3s will even be infinately better than anything you'll here on a Record Label supported album.
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Strange, free and legal doesn't seem to apply to Mp3s anymore. Even the RIAA is looking into search aggregators, those like elbo.ws that let us search through the mass of blogs and websites for songs. Can we blame them?
Stereogum's Free Mp3's
Stereogum likes to mix interesting music and let us download, completely for free. They take hit songs, non hits, all alike and combine stuff together for an interesting audio experience. You'd be surprised how two songs coming together can form something new, yet sometimes even better than the original. Try listening to the last batch of free legal mp3's stereo 9 vs Stereogum, more often than not, you've heard these songs before...
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Stereogum's Free Mp3's
Stereogum likes to mix interesting music and let us download, completely for free. They take hit songs, non hits, all alike and combine stuff together for an interesting audio experience. You'd be surprised how two songs coming together can form something new, yet sometimes even better than the original. Try listening to the last batch of free legal mp3's stereo 9 vs Stereogum, more often than not, you've heard these songs before...
Visit Stereogum
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SkreemR, Free Mp3 Search, download free mp3s
2 Comments Published by Nick on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 7:27 AM.
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What happens when you leave your hard drive and mp3 player behind on a trip? Well, you have to look for alternative options to get your music back. Recently I've come across SkreemR, a free mp3 music search.
A Free Mp3 Search
Skreemr.com lets you search through the mass of blogs and websites that make up the internet to find music. Once it brings back a list of artists and songs in a list format, it lets you play the songs directly on Skreemr, rather than having to click to each website to find your music.
Like What you Hear?
Use their free mp3 search to download full version of whatever the Skreemr search results have returned. It's a great way to build up your ipod collection.
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A Free Mp3 Search
Skreemr.com lets you search through the mass of blogs and websites that make up the internet to find music. Once it brings back a list of artists and songs in a list format, it lets you play the songs directly on Skreemr, rather than having to click to each website to find your music.
Like What you Hear?
Use their free mp3 search to download full version of whatever the Skreemr search results have returned. It's a great way to build up your ipod collection.
Visit Skreemer
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IODA, Free Independent Music Search
1 Comments Published by Nick on Friday, December 28, 2007 at 5:23 AM.
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Looking for music that has been "pre-cleared" for legality? Have no fear of distributing your music online after doing a search with IODA's free independent music search.
Access for Everyone?
In order to gain access to IODA's Promonet, you'll need to be accepted. You have to sign up for an account and wait up to two days to see whether or not you have been accepted. When I signed up, I needed to provide an email address and also my website address.
Add tracks to your blog
"Promonet was designed to help you quickly find pre-cleared MP3s for use in your blog, podcast or music website. Anytime you see the orange icon next to a track you'll know that the track is a PromoTrack™. You can download the full-length 192Kbps MP3 for use in your podcast, and using our Code Generator you can post a link to the MP3 on your blog or website. All we ask in return is that you credit the PromoTrack and include at least one link to an online retailer."
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Access for Everyone?
In order to gain access to IODA's Promonet, you'll need to be accepted. You have to sign up for an account and wait up to two days to see whether or not you have been accepted. When I signed up, I needed to provide an email address and also my website address.
Add tracks to your blog
"Promonet was designed to help you quickly find pre-cleared MP3s for use in your blog, podcast or music website. Anytime you see the orange icon next to a track you'll know that the track is a PromoTrack™. You can download the full-length 192Kbps MP3 for use in your podcast, and using our Code Generator you can post a link to the MP3 on your blog or website. All we ask in return is that you credit the PromoTrack and include at least one link to an online retailer."
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Garage Band, Free Independent Music Artists
0 Comments Published by Nick on Sunday, December 23, 2007 at 1:08 PM.
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Garage Band offerings
They've got just about every category imaginable. Each week they have a song of the week, which is of course fully downloadable like all the music on the site.
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Find Free Mp3 Music Online with Elbo.WS
0 Comments Published by Nick on Friday, December 21, 2007 at 12:48 PM.
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Elbo.ws is yet another search engine that searches through blogs to find us free mp3 music.
According to Elbows.ws,"Elbows is a collection of great music blog posts and is meant to provide you a snapshot of what's going on in this new genre of blogging. Please take the time to visit each of the blogs listed on this page to learn more about new artists and buy their albums and, when you're through buying up all the CDs or iTunes tracks, click on some of the blog's sponsors so that they may keep providing us with such great information."
New Stuff, Daily
Everyday Elbo.ws updates with new music that has been added across the web. It seems that the blogging sphere has gotten so large that we can use this as a source for finding free music online. Does anyone even read magazines anymore?
Visit Elbo.ws
According to Elbows.ws,"Elbows is a collection of great music blog posts and is meant to provide you a snapshot of what's going on in this new genre of blogging. Please take the time to visit each of the blogs listed on this page to learn more about new artists and buy their albums and, when you're through buying up all the CDs or iTunes tracks, click on some of the blog's sponsors so that they may keep providing us with such great information."
New Stuff, Daily
Everyday Elbo.ws updates with new music that has been added across the web. It seems that the blogging sphere has gotten so large that we can use this as a source for finding free music online. Does anyone even read magazines anymore?
Visit Elbo.ws
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seeqpod, free mp3 search tool
0 Comments Published by Nick on Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 9:29 AM.
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With Seeqpod you can search the internet for free mp3s. Overall the seeqpod is easy to use.
How to use Seeqpod
How to use Seeqpod
- Visit SeeqPod
- Search for an artist
- "Search" button = find an exact artist
- "Discover" button = find similar artists
- Choose your song
- Click on the green arrow. The song will start playing.
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discoworkout.com, Free Mp3 Music Remixes
0 Comments Published by Nick on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 12:15 PM.
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Discoworkout, its like a dance music revolution. Everyday the authors post new mp3 remixes. If you are a fan of the 80s as well as electronic music today, you'll find a large selection of music.
Preview than play
Discoworkout writes a little caption to the songs. At the end of each post he gives you two options, play and preview or download. Fortunately you don't have to pay any membership fixes to get access to the music. Just download what you like. I've already been building a few mix cds from this website alone. Try Tracey Thorn - King Cross Remix. Superb song.
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Preview than play
Discoworkout writes a little caption to the songs. At the end of each post he gives you two options, play and preview or download. Fortunately you don't have to pay any membership fixes to get access to the music. Just download what you like. I've already been building a few mix cds from this website alone. Try Tracey Thorn - King Cross Remix. Superb song.
Visit Discoworkout
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Hypem, Find Legal Mp3s Online
0 Comments Published by Nick on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 11:11 AM.
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What about a search engine that searches blogs for Music? Welcome to HypeM.
Find Free Tracks
HypeM provides a search through a large database of blogs to find the track of your "dreams". Search for an artist and Hypem will return a list of all sites that are listing that file. Most of the time, Hype will give you a direct link to the mp3 file letting you avoid visiting the blog to get the song.
Whats Hot?
Visiting Hypem is also a great way just to see whats popular. Everyday they will list the latest 25 songs that have been posted as well as the most popular search terms for the day. I've found myself build up my mp3 collection very quickly with tools such as these. Time for a new hard drive?
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Find Free Tracks
HypeM provides a search through a large database of blogs to find the track of your "dreams". Search for an artist and Hypem will return a list of all sites that are listing that file. Most of the time, Hype will give you a direct link to the mp3 file letting you avoid visiting the blog to get the song.
Whats Hot?
Visiting Hypem is also a great way just to see whats popular. Everyday they will list the latest 25 songs that have been posted as well as the most popular search terms for the day. I've found myself build up my mp3 collection very quickly with tools such as these. Time for a new hard drive?
Visit HypeM
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iRate, Download and Listen to Mp3s, Legally
0 Comments Published by Nick on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 1:29 PM.
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Yes that word, legally, it sometimes seems hard to determine anymore if what we are doing is legal or illegal on the online world. People might tell us, yes this is legal, yet we are still doing something illegal. Strange?
iRate
With iRate, we download the open source software and are presented with a large list of songs. Naturally it is our task to rate all the music. Be patient at first. You will be presented with music you don't like. This is where iRate's rating system comes into play. After you start rating music, iRate will have a better idea what you like and don't like. After rating dozens of songs, iRate should start choosing music more to your tastes.
iRate is like going to a new restaurant. You try out the food and after trying a bit of everything out, the restaurant can give you food that fits to your preferences.
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iRate
With iRate, we download the open source software and are presented with a large list of songs. Naturally it is our task to rate all the music. Be patient at first. You will be presented with music you don't like. This is where iRate's rating system comes into play. After you start rating music, iRate will have a better idea what you like and don't like. After rating dozens of songs, iRate should start choosing music more to your tastes.
iRate is like going to a new restaurant. You try out the food and after trying a bit of everything out, the restaurant can give you food that fits to your preferences.
Get iRate
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Mp3.com, Listen to Free Mp3 Albums
0 Comments Published by Nick on Monday, December 10, 2007 at 12:08 PM.
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Though I like to download Mp3s that I listen to, Mp3.com turns out to be a great place to preview music before we buy. Mp3.com streams fulls albums at 64kbp which is more like listening to music from a radio, but if your computer are like mine, you won't notice a huge difference in quality. Most of the music Albums on Mp3 music are just free plays.
Free Downloads?
Mp3.com keeps a list of the top 10 free mp3 songs for download. Unlike their free play albums, the free mp3s are all artists that few have heard of. What can we expect for free? The music industry has suffered enough, it seems to get something free, they are either going to downgrade the quality, to get us to buy the album in full cd quality or give us a few sample tracks to keep us interested. However, instead of "stealing" music, shouldn't we be supporting the artists?
Free Downloads?
Mp3.com keeps a list of the top 10 free mp3 songs for download. Unlike their free play albums, the free mp3s are all artists that few have heard of. What can we expect for free? The music industry has suffered enough, it seems to get something free, they are either going to downgrade the quality, to get us to buy the album in full cd quality or give us a few sample tracks to keep us interested. However, instead of "stealing" music, shouldn't we be supporting the artists?
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262 Versions of House of the Rising Sun, Free Mp3
0 Comments Published by Nick on Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 2:18 PM.
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What would be your favorite of all 262 Versions of House of the Rising Sun?
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Beemp3, find free mp3s online
0 Comments Published by Nick on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 12:37 PM.
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Beemp3 is a simple mp3 aggregator for finding free mp3s online. This means that it looks through all the services offering free mp3s online and delivers a result. Though anyone can question the legality of such a service, this method is a lot faster and simplier than using google or yahoo as search tool to find mp3s.
The Returned Search Results?
After doing a quick search for the album "Master of Puppets" by Metallica, I recieved a link to almost track on the album, yet I was dissapointed by the fact that all tracks are different bit rates (the quality of the track). However, what can you expect when all the files are comming from different sources?
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The Returned Search Results?
After doing a quick search for the album "Master of Puppets" by Metallica, I recieved a link to almost track on the album, yet I was dissapointed by the fact that all tracks are different bit rates (the quality of the track). However, what can you expect when all the files are comming from different sources?
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Free Break Beat Music on d1rt
0 Comments Published by Nick on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 6:18 PM.
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France, they are giving when it comes to free electronic music on the net. Not all do they give us Deezer, the music sharing site, now they giving us d1rt, a compilation of break beat dance albums on the net.
Is it good or just d1rt?
One thing you should know is, when it comes to electronic music, France knows it's stuff. It seems like d1rt could of come up with a better website design. Currently the site is just a list of free break beat albums. Just pictures of the albums and links. Thats it. No information or news. Maybe this is a good thing? Rather than reading through pages of information you just get direct links to Free Break Beat Music.
Visit d1rt's free album archives
Is it good or just d1rt?
One thing you should know is, when it comes to electronic music, France knows it's stuff. It seems like d1rt could of come up with a better website design. Currently the site is just a list of free break beat albums. Just pictures of the albums and links. Thats it. No information or news. Maybe this is a good thing? Rather than reading through pages of information you just get direct links to Free Break Beat Music.
Visit d1rt's free album archives
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Get 2 Free British Invasion Cds
0 Comments Published by Nick on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 2:06 PM.
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Bass Beer from the UK wants us to hear a little more of British Rock while drinking their beer so they are giving 2 cds with each signup, one for you, and one for your friend.
When signing up for the cds, I noticed that Bass seems to be affliated with Becks beer. When you go to sign up, leave your mouse pointer over the tab that says "Get Your Free CD". A small text message will appear that says "Enter Becks Beer" though this website clearly is for Bass. Strange, but interesting. Anyway, the CDs are supposed to be the best of Rock from UK, does that mean the Iggy Pop generation or the Kaiser Chiefs? I guess we won't find out until we get the samples.Ok,
So where do I get the Free British Invasion CDs?
Just visit this link. Simple? Ok you must be 21, but if you aren't ask your mommy to sign up.
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Spinner, a sort of Indie music site brought to use by our "friends" at Aol, concludes its posting each day with a free mp3 of the day. Not only is this a great way to catch up on some artists that might less known to most of us.
Is your Mp3 Player Empty?
Just download the new Mp3 listed each day. By the end of the year you'll have 365 different tunes to listen to. With all these different artists, it makes one wonder just how many arists actually exist? Could anyone have enough time in their entire lifetime to listen to all the music that has been created?
Get started with Spinner here
Is your Mp3 Player Empty?
Just download the new Mp3 listed each day. By the end of the year you'll have 365 different tunes to listen to. With all these different artists, it makes one wonder just how many arists actually exist? Could anyone have enough time in their entire lifetime to listen to all the music that has been created?
Get started with Spinner here
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