where can i download music for free?

This message has 2 parts to it from 2 different answers I've given. Part 1 is completely legal, Part 2 isn't, because the artists don't get paid for their music.

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I wrote this to someone elses question, You do have to "sign-up", but it's free. It is completely safe and virus free. Best of all is that compared to many suggestions of peer-2-peer software that aren't legal and can pass viruses, this is Completely LEGAL and FREE!

Here it is for you:

http://www.spiralfrog.com/

To start off, there are 2 different answers:

1) Free downloads that are legal

2) Free Illegal downloads (limewire,kaza, frostwire, torrents, imesh, etc)

I'll deal with #1.

Since the whole issue about downloading music, the music companies and Artists themselves need to earn "income" from their music work. To be fair, they ARE entitled to it. Nobody wants to work for free.

This is why the (new) Napster, Rhapsody, Walmart, Itunes, emusic, Amazon, etc exist and charge for their music. Bottom line...If you want legal downloads, you have to "pay" for it.

HOWEVER, there is another option. "Pay" doesn't have to be money. Spiralfrog.com deals with the whole "Pay" idea as being "Banner Ad" income. The more ads you see the more money they make, and they DO pass the income to the artists/music companies.

Unfortunately, seeing the ads once don't provide a recurring source of income to the company, so they require you to come back to their website to 'renew' your licenses every 30-60 days by taking their 5 question survey again. Not a real problem since I check them out several times a week.

Their selection of NEW music is mixed. SOME new albums are released through them at the same time as other sites. MANY may not make it until some time has passed, and others never show up. You have to look around and see if their selection is good for you.

Oh, 2 things to take note of:

1) You need to have a player that supports .wma files with DRM (Digital Rights Management). This means iPod is NOT supported, but lots of other players (my cellphone even) do work with it.

2) You can't burn to CD to bypass #1

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imeem.com has changed it's formats recently, so these instructions could be off a little.

(I just tested this procedure for seeqpod.com and it works there too)

I've used orbitdownloader.com before, at this moment orbitdownloader is being updated for imeem.com new format.

1) So, for now you can use their FreeMusicZilla program to capture and save the imeem content. http://www.freemusiczilla.com/welcome.ht...

2) Convert the flv (FLashVideo) file to an mp3 file. Without having to download any software you can use this site http://www.flv2mp3.com/ , you upload the .flv file to them, then you'll simply download the newly converted file to your pc in mp3 format (looks like it's 128bit).

THAT's IT!

GrabThatMusic.Com

Try http://our-music-downloads.com/

http://freestufflinks.totalh.com/freemusiccons.htm...

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spiralfrog.com

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