Fortunately, there is still plenty of free and legal digital music available from downloading from the internet. Some is produced by artists waiting or hoping to be discovered, or music which is out of copyright. Most of the music is covered by a “creative commons licence” which lets you listen to, copy, burn to CD or share with your friends.
So whatever style of music you are into, here are some websites to check out for free downloads, or links to free downloads:
• www.jamendo.com – this is a site where “artists allow everyone to download and share their music. It's free, legal and unlimited”, and has a huge number of albums and artists to browse.
• www.soundclick.com- this site has been operating since 1997, and has over 2 million full-length tracks available as well as streaming audio for free videos and radio stations.
• www.besonic.com – there are over 80,000 songs on this site to download or listen to via streaming audio. It is also possible to search the site to quickly find the music that interests you and see what’s hot in your preferred genre.
• www.purevolume.com – with more than 100,000 songs to download for free, this site is definitely worth visiting to check for your favourites, or currently featured artists.
• www.archive.org – this is an archive of over 100,000 free digital recordings including news programmes, concerts, old time radio shows, book and poetry readings and original music uploaded by users.
• www.classiccat.net – this site has a huge list of links to free classical music downloads, sorted by composer or performer.
So whatever style of music you are into, here are some websites to check out for free downloads, or links to free downloads:
• www.jamendo.com – this is a site where “artists allow everyone to download and share their music. It's free, legal and unlimited”, and has a huge number of albums and artists to browse.
• www.soundclick.com- this site has been operating since 1997, and has over 2 million full-length tracks available as well as streaming audio for free videos and radio stations.
• www.besonic.com – there are over 80,000 songs on this site to download or listen to via streaming audio. It is also possible to search the site to quickly find the music that interests you and see what’s hot in your preferred genre.
• www.purevolume.com – with more than 100,000 songs to download for free, this site is definitely worth visiting to check for your favourites, or currently featured artists.
• www.archive.org – this is an archive of over 100,000 free digital recordings including news programmes, concerts, old time radio shows, book and poetry readings and original music uploaded by users.
• www.classiccat.net – this site has a huge list of links to free classical music downloads, sorted by composer or performer.