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 question of where to find these goodies.
So when it comes to music, where can we get them for free? Here are some sites you would 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 custom playlist, search for new songs, and share them on social media and bookmarking sites with just one click.
You can listen to unlimited free 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 allows you to watch YouTube videos of your favorite songs; Power Hour mode, which automatically switches 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 MP3s, and you can share them with your friends, as well as get your friends’ recommendations 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 music streaming service available to users in Ireland and the UK. It has over 6.8 million tracks from four major record labels and a host of independent labels. If you want to buy the tracks, you can do so in the site store.
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 the most.
5. Soundclick (soundclick.com).This site has been around since 1997, so it must be good, right? To date, its catalog contains more than 2.5 million tracks that you can listen to via live broadcast. Some of the music is available for free and legal download.
6. Audio file (archive.org/details/audio).If you are looking for free songs, poetry readings, audiobooks, old radio shows, and even alternative news shows, you can find over 200,000 of them in the Audio Archives MP3 and audio 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.
