Can anyone tell me where i can download FREE ipod music?

There are several options for free, safe, legal music and video downloads. A lot of people recommend Limewire, Bittorrent, Bearshare and the like, but most the content on such networks constitute a copyright violation or can be infested with viruses. Most of these programs are also known to have trouble with Firewalls and a few won't run under Windows Vista.

The first legal source is Podcasts. My favorite is Crap from the Past at crapfromthepast.com. The host Ron "Boogymoster" Gerber, describes it as a graduate level course in pop music, and he's not far off. You'll hear a lot of music that hasn't been on the air for a long time. The program is available as a podcast, with three half hour segments coming out a week.

Another great source of Public Domain and Creative Commons music is archive.org. For example, It's amazing how much old school Jazz has fallen into the Public Domain. A lot of techno and pop artists use a Creative Commons license that makes non-commercial distribution legal.

Jamendo.com is a record label that makes all their music available for download for free. The idea is to give away MP3s to encourage people to buy the actual CDs.

Archive.org has a page that lists other labels like Jamendo that offer free, legal downloads of their music.

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

You can also look into various music Podcasts. For example, there are some really good Celtic music podcasts, Celtic Music News being my favorite. celticmusicnews.com

The BBC and NPR have a variety of music programs, most of which are free downloads or can be listened to as streaming media.

If you use iTunes, the iTunes store has a selection of free music and videos, with new free music being released on Tuesdays. You can even sign up for a mailing list to be notified of new free content when it becomes available.

Finally, there's etree.org. A LOT of artists give permission to allow the recording and distribution of their live performances. etree.org only offers "lossless" recordings, so you'll need to convert them into another format to use them on your portable media player. The good news is since these are lossless files to start with, you won't have the data degradation and conversion artifacts typical of say, converting a WMA to an MP3. It's more like ripping an CD.

All told, there's a LOT out there free of charge. The Kuro5hin article I link to below has even more detail.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/9/5/05113/70314

http://www.celticmusicnews.com/

http://archive.org/

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

http://crapfromthepast.com/

http://www.jamendo.com/en/

http://www.etree.org/

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/9/5/05113/70314

http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/03/free-music-list-d...

http://blog.matthewmiller.net/2007/05/free-legal-m...

Best to avoid free sites, there's a high chance you'll pick up a virus. Try Iomoio, I've been using them for 3 years now and never got a virus. Songs are all in high quality bit rate so sound a lot better than the stuff you rip from Youtube. Register with the link below and get 2 free downloads to try them out.

http://www.iomoio.co.uk/bonus.php

It depends on what kind of music you like. iTunes has podcasts that offer free songs. indie feed is a great one. You might not no any of the artists, but you'll discover some great ones. It offers independent electronic, hip-hop, alternative/modern rock, pop, and spoken word tracks. You get a new song about every other day, and there is a quick spoken intro and a little info on the artist at the end. There are other podcasts like this out there, but this one is my personal fav.

I hate limewire too lol too many viruses. Anyway, go to www.kohit.net and type in the song you want and you can download it for free. I use it and it works fine.

Hello,

You can download Ares here http://bitly.com/1xTDEhP

Very useful program!

Cheers.

iTunes has a free single-of-the-week and they have free podcasts... On the free section, they have some shows and audiobooks for free... But iTunes, well the majority of the songs, arn't free...

trustyfile or ares

bearshare.com

legally . . . . or illegally?