One of the new generation music downloads sites that offer music for a fee at very low prices. The site offers something for the casual music surfer and musician alike giving them what they love the most, exposure and access. The new structure of the net has the power delegated to the user or the surfer and out of the hands of the big companies. These sites allow budding artists to showcase their stuff and the established ones access to the biggest social network, the internet. They offer paid downloads of individual song to whole albums (for a price of course). Bands get a chance to create their own blogs site where they can showcase their work for the whole world to view, listen to and enjoy all in the convenience of their desktops or laptops.
Registration to the site is free but music downloads and videos are paid for by users who want to download them for private use. Major labels and artists also showcase their work through live video and audio streaming allowing them to maximize their potential on the ever changing web. They also allow you to get in touch with your favorite bands and artists through online chat giving you more than the usual wave from them making the relationship more productive. Producers of independent bands can have their work broadcast over the net allowing them to reach people from the farthest reaches of the earth.
Have talent and want exposure, they can do it for your band with their many users and live streaming technology, you get to market yourself sometimes even for free which makes it all worthwhile for the budding artist and band. Want to search for your favorite old-time bands, they also have them. The vast collection of songs from all genres allows people from all ages to share and enjoy music like never before. No need to go to the specialty shop to search for long lost records from your high school bands, they make it easy as pie to get your hands on them. No premiums to buy that limited edition CD only to end up converting it to more manageable formats wasting time and effort on your PC. The songs you purchase and get for free come in the most widely used audio formats allowing you easy use and unparalleled quality. MusicMediaFactory.com, where artists and fans meet to enjoy their similarities.
Tags: Free-music, Free-Videos, Paid-Downloads, Pay-per-Download-Service
Categories: Downloading Legally, Music, Providers
If you are a college student and you love music, well then you’re in luck for Ruckus is specifically designed for you. College life is hectic and filled with immense pressures (and of course, also filled with party time in between the hectic academic lectures) of having to master and take in different subjects and courses as you go along for a few years till graduation. Some hail this as “the life” for it is filled with hard partying and other forms of entertainment to diffuse the tensions that accumulate through the years spent in classrooms and lecture halls.
With over 3 million music tracks available for down load by college students, it truly is a relief for you PC and Laptop bound kids and allows them to enjoy the music they love for free. The site fuels their free music with revenue from advertising and they do encourage others to sign up and refer as much as they can. Membership, requires a valid “.edu” extension to your email address (which means you are a student of a valid college and they can also verify the said info through the admin of your school) for you to become a legit member of the community. Created by college students, for college students is what makes the site so appealing to the younger generation for they know these people understand them in their music choices and favorites.
With over a thousand member US schools and colleges, the list just keeps on getting bigger and longer everyday. Membership is allowed for, current active students, faculty/staff and even alumni as long as the email address they use has the .edu and that you can provide your graduation date (this allows them to verify your true affiliation). The site’s terms of use is quite specific that the music you get cannot be used for any commercial application and that it is copyrighted according to US copyright and US electronic media laws so be sure to read the by-laws to prevent any unto wards incidents.
” Ruckus, the site for college students, by college students.”
Tags: Free-music, Free-music-for-College-Students
Categories: Downloading Legally, Music, Providers
If one is not much of a download fanatic but loves music just the same, well, then streaming music sites may be the choice for you. You can get the latest sounds for you to play again at the time of your choice and you get to share your choices with your friends online (yes, it’s a social network and you only get to hear the music but not download it). Getting your hands on legal downloads can be a pain nowadays, even with the sudden demise of DRM for most of the major record labels.
Pandora, one of the free download sites for music and videos has restricted access to users in North America only and blocks those from outside of their license area using IP address detection. They do let you specify your email address so you do get notified when they do get permission to share content in your country (which can be close to never). We7, another free download site gets you free music with advertising which is advantageous to all concerned (please see previous post about We7). From the artist, record company, the Sharing company (We7) and the end-user. Who all get what they want with a few ads to bug you from time to time (It’s those embedded ad’s that make them free and legal). Other than those ads, paid downloads and P2P sites, they are all you have in terms of getting your hands on the hottest tracks from the best to the not so famous types(budding independent types) of artists. Then, there’s streaming music or radio straight from the internet (that is if you don’t have digital radio support yet). Imeem, for some of the best music on and friends anywhere on earth, and music too.
Tags: Free-music, Internet-Radio, Streaming-music
Categories: Music, Providers
I recently read the article on squidoo regarding the activities of these sites that say they offer free and unrestricted downloads of all types of music and movies. The article says they are scams and believe me many are for as long as I can remember in writing for this blog, I’ve come across tons of them.
Some sites offer free downloads at the beginning in exchange for subscriptions for their music service (which has declined in the recent years with the proliferation of P2P download sites that have all the latest tracks up for grabs). They give you a couple of tracks and then offer you more, for a fee of course. Some sites are totally commercial and have you subscribe up front to get access to their vast collection of stuff which is by the way the best one to go with for the music you get from them is considered to be licensed. The more devious sites hook you in, keep you on the line and pull you in along with the sinker and all. They do crazy stuff such as drop malware and viruses as they go exploiting vulnerabilities in your system’s configuration. They even contain stuff that shouldn’t even be available to those who don’t want or are not even interested in them (porn and other dirty stuff) without you even asking for it.
But along the way, I’ve come along some unexpected sites such as the BBC and other library sites facilities that have a lot of archived free stuff that you can get for personal use. The industry has stopped research and development into copyright protection for all types of media simply because they are futile and people still get them somewhere over the internet. Responsible users do respect the rights of the owners and buy licensed originals but there are just too many people who want it for free. Hackers make this possible with deep rooted hate towards industry for their ways and monopoly. Others, do it for hatred of the people who make the software and music so whatever the reason it might be left to the user to say enough is enough and initiate control over them (which is next to impossible) but we can make a change by starting on your own.
Tags: Free-music, Free-Stuff, Free-Video
Categories: Applications, Downloading Legally, Freeware, Mobile Phones, Music, Photo Images, Podcasts, Providers, Resources, Videos, ipods
Named after the famous character from the Matrix series, is another of the P2P file sharing programs on the net offering tons of free downloads and other free stuff. Like many of the P2P systems in use, the program does not yet include a function that prevents control over copyrighted content but they promise this in future versions. There are tons of downloads available once you get the client interface software from the site which is by the way also free to download. They have video, audio, pictures and many more items available for download. The P2P platform has managed to stay in use due to the ease at which large files are shared and transferred from user to user through the internet.
Other download methods simply take too much time and come with the risks of malicious programs embedded within the file itself. P2p is fast and safe for most of the part and they can be used for free or as part of a paid service where you pay a certain amount for a number of downloads per month. The improvements regarding copyrights are coming and might make it a bit harder to share files but unique and original content from all over the world shared by other users always remains free like all P2P programs and systems.
The client software also has a one-click CD burning function which allows the downloaded content to be burned directly onto a disk for portable computing and use. It also features parental control which many other programs lack allowing better control over what gets through and what doesn’t.
Tags: Free-music, Free-Stuff, Free-Video
Categories: Applications, Downloading Legally, Freeware, Music, Photo Images, Podcasts, Providers, Resources, Videos
The company has had a ton of stints with the law but guess what, they are now legal, or they claim to be. The company is one of the foremost music source for those who wanted free music and many more and took the role from the damned Napster which was forced to close due to many legalities they couldn’t cope with a few years back. The new iMesh offers legal downloads with licenses from many record labels in their move to maintain their many a loyal following. The site has been around for quite some time which now boasts over 2 million strong collection of songs and other free stuff you can download and burn directly to cd’s or DVD’s for your listening pleasure.
iMesh is recognized to be the pioneer of the multi-source download which allows people to download songs and other content from a variety of sources(swarming) allowing faster and more reliable downloads. The site offers a free download of their latest software which includes a mini-player and more stringent privacy functions. They have also been offering hassle-free resumable downloads which allows long files to be downloaded easy making it one of the best sites to get stuff from. Everybody has experiences of interrupted downloads that you spend all night waiting for and end up with junk due to a power glitch or fluctuation causing the download to hang or have useless parts having you downloading it again and so on and so forth. The continue function allows you to cut a download, get to doing whatever needs doing and get back to it while you are at the helm of your computer to monitor the progress of the process. Check out the iMesh.com site for more information on the new stuff and hottest songs/tracks that are available for download from their library of legal and free stuff.
Tags: Free-music, Free-Stuff, Free-Video, Imesh
Categories: Applications, Downloading Legally, Freeware, Graphics, Music, Photo Images, Podcasts, Providers, Resources, Videos, ipods
The site is a quite recent newcomer and it offers royalty free downloads of many stuff offered for producers and animation artists. They have a selection of Flagship downloads for titles and some instant downloads allowing web developers easy access to much needed content for background themes and many others. It is quite a nifty site that has theme packs, sound effects and broadcasts all in one site which if one was quite in need of much needed resources say for a web site under development and many other applications.
Some are available for a price and some are free but the best stuff come from their paid sections which would give you quite a lot of value for money. The theme pack series comes with all the necessary stuff from one genre giving you access to all the relevant and best tracks for audio and video content development all in one disk for the said genre selected. The SFX library gives one access to any of the 800 natural or SFX electronic stuff contained sound tracks for use on a variety of applications. The broadcast series contains stuff for use on your custom program and the best part of it is that most are royalty free meaning you only purchase one time without the hassle of paying for use every time it is used.
The site offers a whole lot more so be sure to check them out for more neat and useful stuff fro all your web development sound and effects needs. Yeah, they might be asking for a price but you get the stuff all in one neat package for parcel delivery or immediate download.
Tags: Free-music, Free-SFX, Free-Video
Categories: Applications, Downloading Legally, Graphics, Music, Photo Images, Podcasts, Resources
The Sweden based site has faced prosecution and has had their web servers confiscated but a few days after they were shut-down, guess what they’re up again. The Pirate Bay.org is now considered to be one of the biggest if not the biggest Bit torrent tracker in the world that used to be run from an office which has long since disappeared due to anti-piracy moves by the government. The government has had it’s eye on the form since it was founded late 2003 when they started to do their business as a group of people who hated copyright laws. Since they were raided in 2004, the site has managed to remain open due to cat and mouse tactics which had the web servers moved overseas way out of the reach of the government and one server has even been placed into a bank vault hopefully to keep safe from actions towards it by the authorities. The pioneers have shifted to hard-wired laptops rather than wirelessly connected ones for they say they don’t trust the airwaves.
They have emphasized again and again that they are not doing any wrong due to the fact that the servers that they maintain and operate do not have any copyrighted content but merely mirrors of the bit torrents that are relevant to a search conduct. This has met repeated resistance from the government and anti-piracy groups in hopes of protecting the intellectual and copyright policies now being implemented all over the world. To date, the site has managed to remain open with the founders shifting locations to avoid being traced and as long as people want free stuff and don’t want to pay for them they will be there to serve the world’s bit-torrent downloading needs.
The founder’s motto, “ I take whatever I want because I can!”
Tags: Bit-torrents, Free-for-All, Free-music, Free-Video, Pirate-Bay
Categories: Applications, Downloading Legally, Freeware, Music, Podcasts, Resources
BBC, surprisingly has a quite extensive collection of downloadable and free music. BBC/easy/music has a wide selection of music from most genre’s. From the Blues, Soul, Reggae, Classical, classic Pop Rock and many more. This might be a new approach for the many News agencies around who have finally realized that their web sites used to be so boring people still read the paper. BBC is one of the most trusted news networks in the world and their many versions (TV, Music etc…) have a little to offer in terms of music. There are even Pod cast downloads of your favorite shows from the radio or the tele.
Internet Archives is another site with an extensive collection of music from all over the world which has been now declared a true library due to the ever growing collection of, well, everything. In digital form that is that they have accumulated since 1999 when the organization was founded. A non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide a facility for the storage of archives so that researchers can access them for use in their work fields of study. They even have a collection of archived web pages, many of which no longer exist. A story by the AP has remarked that when web pages die, they go to heaven in the bowels of the extensive collection. These records or archives are considered by them as a cultural record of our identity for all man to use and share. The said Internet Library has been officially declared a “Library Status”, thus giving it the right to get assistance from the federal government in the form of funding.
Tags: BBC, Free-music, Free-podcasts, Free-Videos, Internet-Archives, NGO
Categories: Downloading Legally, Freeware, Graphics, Mobile Phones, Music, Photo Images, Resources, Videos, ipods
Quickly searching on the net for downloads of videos and photos you get a lot of results that are not quite satisfactory. Don’t count on a download of the latest Alicia Keys MTV, you can watch and listen though. Well, wake up people nothing is free anymore on this here earth. There are however tons of free stuff form artists who aren’t quite on the top yet (Hey, it doesn’t mean that they’re not famous yet that they’re nobody) but are quite cool nonetheless.
Many sites say that they know how to get the hottest stuff from the charts and legally. I don’t know about the legally stuff but they’re all a form of piracy. You buy an audio CD and rip it into your PC then share it with friends over the internet? Read the legal statements on the packaging dudes as they say that the music or whatever that is in the disks you bought are for home and private use only, any public display or in other words anything else that you do with the stuff except listen if it’s an audio CD can be constituted as Piracy.
Enough of the legal stuff and let’s get back to those not-so-famous artists. You can go to the wide array of free stuff aspiring artists place in their MySpace pages and you are sure to find some very good stuff. Many of them really are good and quite promising and who knows that they could be the next ”Beyonce” or “Justin Timberlake”. Just be patient and enjoy yourself. Another thing, if you record stuff from internet radio, its still piracy!
Tags: Downloading Legally, Free-music, Free-Stuff, Free-Videos, Piracy
Categories: Downloading Legally, Music, Photo Images, Providers, Resources, Videos
