Top 5 Free Music Download Sites
2011-10-31 04:14:45 /
Posted by Brian Fisher to Audio Solution
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Music is an amazing thing which can make you smile and cry. And nowadays it’s quite simple to listen to your favorite music online by searching around those music websites like Billboard. But this is for listening to music online, what about offline? Is there any music download site? Unfortunately, you are not allowed to legally download most mainstream pop music. There are many websites or music center offering music purchases for those hot songs. You can pay for one or more songs just like you pay for other titles online, or you can also get a monthly subscription for a wide access to music. But this doesn’t mean there is no free music site for you to download classic pop recordings or songs from lesser known pop artists. Here the top 5 Free Music Download Sites are introduced:
This site opens in 2005 offering over 32,000 albums to download. The music here is licensed through Free Art licenses and Creative Commons. You can search music in the site by tags and reviews incorporated. Donations are accepted to artists and 50% of advertising revenues would be given to those participating artists.
Free Music Archive was created in April 2009 by Jersey City radio station WFMU, but the personnel is from additional radio stations. Offering over 22,000 songs, the Free Music Archive reports it as “an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads”. It has the community generated approach of many other online music sites. As the Jamendo, FMA also provides donation service to compensate participating artists.
This site is based in France which was launched in 2004. The library of Dogmazic collects about works of 2000 artists. What may delight you is no advertisement shown to annoy you.
Internet Archive's Audio Archive
Well, it’s not a pure music download site but a sub-project of the Internet Archive. The collections of this project are music, audio books, news broadcasts and old time radio shows. Over 50,000 music recordings can be downloaded in the Audio Archive. For example, you can find live concert recordings of the Grateful Dead, Smashing Pumpkins and Warren Zevon.
It’s a social music site where you can remix and create new musical contents. Over 10,000 samples can be downloaded for free, with a key component provided. The CC Mixter also offers you tools to create new musical compositions.
If you wanna create these downloaded music as your iPhone ringtone, you can use iPhone Ringtone Maker for Mac to help you, To extract audio or background music from movies or DVD? iSkysoft iMedia converter Deluxe would be a helper.
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