It is the age of gifts. These days, we can download e-books, stream movies, and listen to music, all for free – and legally! It’s just a matter of where to find these goodies.
So when it comes to music, where can we get them for free? Here are some sites you might like to visit:
1. Grooveshark (grooveshark.com).Grooveshark is one of the largest music streaming services in the world. This site allows you to search and listen to your favorite music, create your own personalized playlist, search for new songs and share them on social networks and bookmarking sites with a single click.
You can listen to free and unlimited radio on your Android smartphone, Blackberry, Nokia, jailbroken iPhone or HP Web OS simply by downloading the Grooveshark app.
It also has features like video mode, which lets you watch YouTube videos of your favorite songs; Power Hour mode, which automatically moves you to a new song every 60 seconds; and the visualizer, which adds a visual element to accompany your music.
two. Spotify (spotify.com). Free Spotify account gives you instant access to millions of tracks for your streaming pleasure. You can play and organize your own MP3 files, and you can share them with your friends, as well as get recommendations from your friends and listen to them instantly with the click of a Facebook button.
However, if you want to listen to music offline on your desktop or mobile device, you will need to get the paid Premium account.
3. We7 (we7.com).We7 is a free streaming music service available to users in Ireland and the UK. It has over 6.8 million tracks from four major labels and a host of independent labels. If you want to buy the tracks, you can do so in the shop on the site.
Four. Last.fm (last.fm).If you like listening to music but are too lazy to search for the music you like, try Last.fm, a music recommendation service. Just sign up, download the Scrobbler software, and let that little tool give you personalized recommendations based on the songs or artists you listen to most often.
5. Soundclick (soundclick.com).This site has been around since 1997, so it must be good, right? Today, its catalog has more than 2.5 million songs that you can listen to through live streaming. Some of the music is available for free and legal download.
6. Audio file (archive.org/details/audio).If you’re looking for free songs, poetry readings, audiobooks, vintage radio shows, and even alternative news shows, you can find over 200,000 of these in Audio Archives’ audio and MP3 library.
7. ArtistServer (artistserver.com).People looking for unconventional artists and their music can find them on ArtistServer. Choose from over 8,000 free and legally downloadable songs from this website. There is a wide range of genres to choose from: country, rock, jazz, metal, blues, classical, hip-hop, folk, and many others, all recorded by unsigned artists, who use the site to promote their work.
With many digital music services available, the CD duplication industry is shrinking and digital music sales now dwarf those of CDs.