A Million Free Music Downloads?

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Webjay - Free Music PlaylistsThere is a lot of great music on the web, yours free for the listening—if you can find it.  Now Webjay let’s listeners create playlists of their favorite free MP3s from all over the ‘net—you can listen to playlists made by others, or create your own (public or private).  It’s a great way to discover new music, and to share music that you’ve discovered with others. Here are a few of my favorite free MP3s to get you started… Enjoy! ...


The Dawn of Legit Music DownloadsWell, iTunes Music Store on Windows has cost me a bunch of money so far… I like the organization, the samples, the ability to see related artists and everything—it was very easy to end up with a huge laundry list of backlist stuff that I’ve been meaning to acquire and add to my library, and so I broke down and acquired some of it. Not from iTunes Music Store, mind you… iTunes doesn’t share the iPod nicely (to put it mildly) with J. Rivers Music Center, which is by far my favorite piece of music organizing and iPod handling software. That particular pain in the ass, combined with having to deal with the music being in a different format (AAC)...


Free Music Works for WilcoXeni Jardin writes in Wired about Wilco's "suprising" success. It's becoming a fairly common story -- artist gets shat upon by label, artist says "screw it" and puts out a solid representative sample of their music online, artist finds later commercial releases gobbled up by fans. In this case, they even raised $15K for charity from people who still wanted to pay for the material they released for free. What a concept -- let people hear some of the band's good stuff (not just some not-ready-for-album samples) for free, and they're more willing to buy stuff. Nothing new here, mind you -- it just used to be called "radio play". Except of course that several whole species of moneygrubbers evolved...


Automating Downloads from MP3 BlogsSpending too much time downloading all of that tasty music from MP3 blogs?  BoingBoing has a bunch of pointers for automating your MP3 blog downloads using wget. Be sure to follow the various links for more specific information on how to use this with OS X or Windows, tips about other programs that do similar things, and (of course) more MP3 blogs… At this rate, it shouldn’t be long before the RIAA tries to ban web servers… :angry:  -----...


More better free musicIf you’re looking for more sources for great free music, you could do far worse than check out the great collection of mp3 blogs in this entry from Close Your Eyes.  Some of these sites spend a lot of time tracking limited time releases, reviewing new releases, etc, and there’s a little something here for everyone—indie, j-pop, electronica, etc. Enjoy (via delicious) -----...