Many torrent sites or file sharingsites are illegal and can be considered serious copyright infringements so it is important to only get free music fromreputable sites. Here are a few that offer free music with respectfor copyrights.
Many torrent sites or file sharing sites are illegal and can be considered serious copyright infringements so it is important to only get free music from reputable sites. Here are a few that offer free music with respect for copyrights.
Emusic offers a trial for a week that gives you twenty five downloads free of charge (Emusic). However if you decide to continue with the service which although excellent will charge monthly after your trial is up if not canceled. The trial also bars of certain albums for the trial but does offer a huge selection of works to choose from for free. It is possible to get more than twenty five downloads with the trial because some albums can be bought for less credits than downloading each song individually.
Amazon MP3 has a free section where songs often become available free than formerly where for sale ( Amazon MP3). The downside is that many of the songs will disappear from the free section as the opportunities are often limited so the site must be monitored frequently if it is a primary source for downloading music. It is best for finding classical and jazz music in my opinion as these often stay free when they are offered.
Last FM is an internet radio designed to help people find music but it also has a section with free music downloads (Last FM). The download section has a very large amount of independent artist as well as performances of classical music due to to the sites option to upload your own music to the site. A convenient feature with this site is that if you don’t want to look for the music all you have to do is enter in your favorite artist and it will try to find similar artist or songs in the free section.
Wikipedia commons offers many free audio files for download ( Wikipedia Commons). Although finding music on this site could be very difficult there is an option upload sound files so many independent artist are bound to to use this site for hosting their works. Wikipedia Commons also has many works with expired copyrights.
Youtube is a site that one must be very careful while getting free music on. Many songs on there are hosted by users that do not own the copyrights so if you want to download a song find out if the user hosting owns the copyright and then get permission to download it. Odds are you will not be caught either way but this is the only way to ensure that you have not broken a law. Once you have received permission there are a great number of sites you can use to extract the audio from the video as youtube itself cannot always be used for this purpose.
Itunes has a free music section but you must have the software installed on your computer and an account to access it which is not practical if you are just browsing for free music online. Nevertheless if you use apple products it is worth it to starts an account anyway in which case the music would be readily available.
