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
It may be easier to find a needle in a haystack than to find a site which offers free music and videos on the web nowadays. Pay for download sites have at least made it more affordable for the music lover to get their hands on the latest and hottest hits off the web which they can use for personal purposes. MP3How.com is a portal which gives you access to music from several sites that are hailed to be the best on the net. They offer some of the lowest rates for people who love music and don’t want to spend a fortune doing so. This is the best option for music labels for DRM has proved to be quite ineffective even to control illegal/pirated music within their borders. Some sites have opted to give free downloads that have advertising included within the tracks as their major source of income. They can be accessed through a proprietary player which also acts as the download interface and conversion platform (for conversion into formats that the myriad of players support some of which have proprietary formats) for the downloaded tracks.
The next, most viable option for music labels is to sell music already in digital format that avoids piracy with included DRM solutions embedded. Major labels have done so through affiliation with music downloading sites in hopes of getting revenue from their music, making it so cheap that people would opt to buy the licensed songs rather than the pirated ones. Asia is still one of the most notorious regions on earth where piracy has become a source of livelihood for the many citizens of developing countries. China, Taiwan, and other countries in Asia have long been at war at these piracy rings but sometimes arrests and stopping one, results in several replacing them and the cycle goes on and on. The key would be to prevent the demand so as to affect the supply which is why sites like MP3How have started to offer membership for less than a dollar to access over 3 million strong collection of songs, videos and TV shows.
Tags: Free-Hits, Free-songs, Free-Videos, MP3
Categories: Downloading Legally, Music, Providers
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
