What are legal sites to download music?

Answer 1

Napster

Rhapsody

Yahoo Music Unlimited

iTunes

eMusic

Do a search for "Music downloads review" to compare

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Further Information:

• If you want music but don't want the whole album go to iTunes and buy just one or two songs from the album for a buck apiece.

• Please understand that when you download music for free you are stealing. If you think it only hurts the big record companies, you're wrong. Many people lose money every time a song is stolen through illegal downloads: the artist, the writer, the retailer, the record company. Not everyone in the chain of people who create music are making the big bucks and can afford to lose their royalties. Nothing is ever truly free. Everyone eventually pays for theft of any kind. For the music business retail prices increase, concert tickets increase, concert merchandise is more expensive and on and on.

• You can browse for un-signed bands who will let you have their music for free in the hope you'll love it and pass it on and help their profile, which is a great way of hearing what's new.

• For legal downloads your best bets are emusic.com, which charges a fee to download a set number of songs per month; download.com, which offers completely free downloads, although the selection is limited; or a service such as rapsody or itunes, which allow you to pay per song or album.

• The great thing about the internet is that often you can find free music offered by the artist themselves, and, very importantly, by unsigned artists. Buying a CD is a little outdated now, it is a waste of plastic and not that high quality compared to modern file types (i am not talking about compressed mp3s here). Most people don't really want to give money to record companies if they don't have to, it does make things expensive and often results in the severe limitation of the availability of music to those who don't happen to have a high paid job in the western world.

• It is amazing how much you can actually find on Google just by looking. My suggestion is to use last.FM to discover new music and then simply search for it online. Make sure that if you download it free you have the artist's approval, they can often make more money by you paying $5 directly to them for an album than $15 in store.. for which they get maybe 3%.

• To summarize: emusic.com and similar sites are great for monthly subscriptions for people who like lots of music, last.FM is amazing for discovering new music, search for what you like online, using Google, myspace, and music.download.com. It won't be free but you will get more than you ever could by CD alone and you will be ultimately supporting the original artists much more than by buying a CD, and certainly a lot more than by just downloading torrents.

Answer 2

There are so many legal sites are available on web for online music and i think listening songs on that sites are not comes under Piracy .

In India ,Indias's first and largest music networking portal is biscoot.com.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

There are many free, legal, music sites that allow users to stream music for free online, but not download music for free. E.g. Pandora.com, Slacker.com, Last.fm, etc. Many sites, such as MP3 search engines, will explain that the site is free and legal, but it may not be obvious that it is actually illegal to download the copyrighted music found through the site, yet it is not illegal for the actual site to search for the music, because it isn't hosted on their servers, but is hosted on others' servers.

Copyright LawsWhat Does It Mean?Under the U.S. Copyright Law, copyright owners have the exclusive right to print, publish, copy, and sell their protected works. The copyright owners of the books and music you purchase usually are indicated on those publications.

The printed music you use reaches you as a result of the collaboration of a number of people:

• the composer or arranger who devotes her or his time and creative effort
• the publisher who invests time and money
• your local music retailer who supplies your musical needs.

Whenever printed music is copied without permission, you are '''STEALING'''from:

• composers/arrangers
• publishers
• music retailers

Answer 5

Have you ever tried the AudBite Spotify Music Converter? You can use it to download Spotify music.

Answer 6

Qtrax.com might be the best legal place you can download.

Answer 7

Spotify is a great piece of software and has the ability of downloading.

Answer 8

You can try Jamendo. While the type of music is hit or miss, it's all free and licenced under creative commons.

Answer 9

There is no "legal" place to download free music. Its illigeal, yet websites are still up.

But mp3skull.com and the YouTube to Mp3 site is good

Answer 10

There are free sites, and there are legal sites, but there are NO legal free sites.