where do you find free music on the net?

Peer to Peer Networks

Before you do let me offer alternatives that are safer. Note that the popular limewire client has spyware. To ignore scroll down!

Be sure to checkout first:

http://music.yahoo.com/

http://www.mtv.com/

http://www.allmusic.com/

http://www.youtube.com/

http://pandora.com/

http://entertainment.lycos.com/music/

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm

http://www.streamload.com/

Winamp

http://www.winamp.com/player/free.php

has free shoutcast TV and Audio Stations

http://www.shoutcast.com/

Check out this page on how to watch it in winamp

http://www.jimmyr.com/winamp_shoutcast.php

Checkout this site to watch tv online

http://mediahopper.com/

For free music videos and audio shorts

If worried about legal stuff, for paid cheap music try:

http://www.rhapsody.com/

http://www.itunes.com/

http://www.napster.com/

http://www.mp3.com/

http://www.real.com/musicstore/

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=type:music_v...

http://baseportal.com/baseportal/goodsounds/howto

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Checkout these official ipod tutorials if you own an ipod

http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/tutorial/

http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/itunes/it1-2....

Before thinking about downloading be sure to read the legal implications of downloading in the wikipedia p2p article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_to_peer#Legal_co...

Be sure to have a descent spyware and virus program or you can scan online free in multiple sources. Make sure you know about safety because many peer to peer networks have viruses. The link below has many resources including free antiviruses.

http://www.jimmyr.com/security.php

Before you Start downloading You Should know how to configure your router. To do so check here

http://www.portforward.com/

Currently there are two main p2p sources

BitTorrent and File Sharing Programs. To use bit torrent you need to download a client like azureus or bitcomet

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php

http://www.bittorrent.com/

http://www.bitcomet.com/

http://www.utorrent.com/

Bit Torrent in Order of Popularity:

http://www.thepiratebay.org/

http://www.torrentspy.com/

http://www.mininova.org/

http://www.suprnova.org/

http://isohunt.com/

http://www.torrentbox.com/torrents-browse.php?news

http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/

http://www.torrentreactor.to/

Programs In Order Of Popularity

http://www.emule-project.org/

Emule is the most downloaded program in sourceforge history with 196,535,727 downloads. Be sure to search IP filter.

http://www.download.com/LimeWire/3000-2166_4-10494...

Limewire is popular among kids (spyware)

http://www.frostwire.com/

Frostwire is an alternative to limewire

http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/

Free filesharing

http://www.gnucleus.com/Gnucleus/

Another Gnutella client

http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/

Ares

http://phex.kouk.de/mambo/

Phex is an alternative to bearshare and uses the gnutella network regarded as "safer".

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group...

Shareaza

http://www.download.com/1200-2025-5140766.html?par...

Imesh

http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

Direct Connect++

http://snail.pc.cz/StrongDC/indexen.htm

Strong Direct Connect

Morpheus (spyware)

http://morpheus.com/

Warez p2p (spyware)

http://www.warezclient.com/

Kazaa Not free anymore (spyware)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazaa

WinMX Doesnt Exist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinMX

Sourceforge top Filesharing projects

http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?...

Wikipedia p2p list

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:File_sharing...

Sourceforge Free Software List (often p2p resources)

http://sourceforge.net/top/toplist.php?type=downlo...

Free Music From Archive.org

http://www.archive.org/details/audio

Programs

Use peer gardian 2 for protection

http://phoenixlabs.org/

To BURN Music/Video CDs/DVDs Download this free

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bwgburn

To Rip Streaming Audio Try this

http://sourceforge.net/projects/streamripper

To make sure all video/audio files work try these:

Media Player Classic Is Fast, free and Much better than Windows Media PLayer

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group...

Mplayer

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

VCL

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

XP codec Pack

http://www.xpcodecpack.com/

Real Alternative

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternati...

Divx Free

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DivX_Free.htm

Xvid

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Nic_XviD_Codec...

QuickTime Alternative

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alte...

G Spot will tell you what a video or audio file is encoded in

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

To open 7z, rar, ace, tar, gz or other formats

http://www.7-zip.org/

To create and mix your own audio try

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

To create and mix your own video files try

http://www.virtualdub.org/

For consol games try

http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms.html

http://www.rom-world.com/dl.php?name=Super_Nintend...

http://www.freeroms.com/

http://www.everyvideogame.com/ (nes only)

http://sgc.jandar.net/ (translate language)

For large Consol Games (cds) peer to peer is like the only option.

Check out sourceforges free top games

http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?...

Search for audio on google and altavista

http://www.altavista.com/audio/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=filetype%...

Others that have been recommended

http://www.allofmp3.com/

http://www.garageband.com/

http://www.soundclick.com/

http://www.mp3shits.com/

http://www.manolito.com/

http://www.emp3finder.com/

http://www.purevolume.com/

http://www.mp3search.ru/

http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp

http://www.btjunkie.org/

http://www.emp3world.com/

http://music.msn.com/

http://www.slsknet.org/

http://www.isound.com/

http://music.download.com/

http://www.mp3dimension.com/

http://www.yourmp3.net/

http://www.mp3shits.com/

http://www.maxalbums.com/

http://www.emusic.com/rca

http://www.seekasong.com/

http://www.mp3-center.org/

http://www.insound.com/mp3/mp3s.php

http://cooltoad.com/

http://somafm.com/

http://www.emusic.com/

http://www.coolrip.com/

http://www.mp3rocket.com/

http://www.musiconline.com/ (india)

http://www.papuyaar.com/ (india)

http://www.epitonic.com/ (india)

http://www.smashits.com/ (india)

http://www.mohankumars.com/ (india)

http://www.funmaza.com/ (india)

http://dishant.com/ (india)

http://www.m4mp3s.com/ (india)

http://www.megablast.us/ (india)

http://www.kazaa.com/

http://videopimp.org/

http://www.phazemp3.com/

http://firstlisten.ifihadadime.com/

http://www.kohit.net/

Yahoo! Answers Searchs

Download Music http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=do...

Free Music http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lu...

Get Music http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lu...

Best Torrent http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=be...

Best p2p http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=be...

Best Peer to Peer http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=be...

Like Limewire http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lu...

ipod question http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=ip...

download into ipod http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lu...

Have fun.

http://www.jimmyr.com/Best_Peer_to_Peer_Networks.p...

By downloading a program called Ares

It is completely free of viruses and the songs all work, unlike Kazaa, where it is so hard to find a song that works.

Just go to www.google.com and search for "download ares" and you'll get it

its the best downloading program

well if u download a software called limewire u can download music for free

This is a free p2p music and music videos downloading

http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/

go to imesh.com and download imesh free version. From it you can download mp3 album full videos etc.

Limewire.com

no but limewire is not free but you can listen to music on yahoo music

go to kazzaa.com for free music

download limewire from www.limewire.com

just pay for it

limewire is right