You don’t want your love of music to be limited by your budget, do you? And you want to support musicians by not downloading music online illegally, don’t you? These two things are not mutually exclusive. There are great sources online where you can download free music without doing anything illegal. Here are some of your options.
Altsounds
At Altsounds you can stream and also provides a method for downloading music online, and the downloads are high quality. Their library includes bands like Anberlin, Panic at the Disco, 10 Years, and Underoath.
Legaltorrents
Legaltorrents is still in its early stages, so there are tons of files available. But the bonus here is that they also have audio books!
Unsigned Band Web
This site has bands from every genre, and they’ll all be new to you because they haven’t been signed! These are bands without a contract looking to get their name out there. It’s a great place to get tons of music and find new bands to love.
DMusic
Full of indie music, this site has been around since 1998. They’ve got top 20 charts for each of the 20+ main genres and they’re broken down into sub-genres as well.
MadeLoud
Madeloud.com has tons of genres, gives you ratings for the content, and even has additional music and video content to peruse.
MTv
That’s right, MTv is here to refresh your playlist. They’ve got tons of hot free downloads and they’re adding new ones all the time. Download as many as you’d like!
Anybody who is interested in music can get a free download from the websites, put in your iPod, iPhone, android, iPad, tablet or any other device you can imagine today! No matter what your budget, you’ll be able to enjoy all your favorites and find new music to love.
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Thanks, those sites are great to hear new music, and for free. That’s great!
Thanks for the post.Haven’t tried these before but after reading this would definitely like to try for downloading music online.These could be made into iphone and android apps and could make it still more useful. And for marketing those apps you find some good deals on iphone app marketing.
I haven’t visited any of these sites yet, but I have tried torrent before, it is just that the download from a torrent seems to take a lot of time.
Very well written information. It will be helpful for anyone who utilizes it, including myself .Keep up the good work. Looking forward to-more posts.
i think it is important to promote free sources …thank you
Great selections here, you are very good in selecting music. Take care.
Great resource as I love music and respect artiste for their creativity/hardwork..
We should really support the music world without compromising our budget. Thanks for this great information. It really makes all the work easier. Thanks
Hey mate great share.I wasn’t aware of these sites at all !!Would try these now as I’m music addict.
I don’t understand why you didnt put piratebay.You can get anything and everything from there.
As I’m an indian I’m sure our great source for downloading music is songs.pk
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for me mtv is perfect legal site to use a lot of music stuff and we can do our favorite music playlist and also offers free download stuff to enjoy it more.
I love LegalTorrents. Torrent clients are such fantastic software, it’s always saddened me to see them used almost exclusively for criminal activity.
Thanks, I did not know about these sites. They seem a lot safer than others that are out there.
For sure there are many places where legal stuff can be downloaded – open source, GPL, creative commons, royalty free.
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Thanks a lot for sharing that. I just new of MTv but the other sources will be handy for me now that I know them.
Hi Amy,
I didnot know about these websites. I always prefer to download from legal websites and thanks for sharing these websites detail. The first site, I am going to check is MTV.
I am downloading music from mp3searchy.com and it is very reliable source.. i am happy with it and it is easy to download my favorite songs there..
Hi Amy Wiltbank, I will check out this and it may help me to find out good music.
That’s really awesome resources to get free music. thanks for sharing and now going to surf these music sites.
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Thanks for sharing Andrew, I’m definitely going to check out the one with audio books!
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