Comments on: Free Legal Music Online

Free Legal Music Online

copacetix — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:27:44 -0800

With all of the talk and posts about itunes, the RIAA, P2P, etc. I thought that I would take this opportunity to point out that there are hundreds of great, free music files online that are legal to download. Sites like Soundloads which posts links to new music every day, Garageband which features up and coming bands, and CNet's music site that lets anyone and everyone upload their files to share with the masses, all feature some great music. And the creators of the music are asking you to download the files for free and add them to your playlists.

I've also downloaded some good music from epitonic.com, purevolume.com, audiostreet, even blogs can be a good source of new, free, legal music downloads. While you're not gonna find the latest big media pop diva or boy band, you can find good music if you take the time to look a little.

By: NickDouglas

NickDouglas — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:34:38 -0800

Thank you; that's a healthy long list of links. Even if half of it ends up being laptop techno.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:00:45 -0800

There's this site called MetaFilter that has music too.

By: polyglot

polyglot — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:08:48 -0800

<shill> cdbaby.com </shill>
Not free, but independent and contains some excellent stuff

By: fleener

fleener — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:21:08 -0800

Tried a bunch of the downloads, only got music samples. I'd use Amazon if I wanted to listen to samples.

By: cell divide

cell divide — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:41:23 -0800

It should be noted that the casual "even blogs" link is a self-link. Bad form, even if you did try to cover it up. It always makes me wonder, did you construct the entire post just to get the self link in there?

By: copacetix

copacetix — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:41:40 -0800

Where exactly did you find samples? There are full MP3's on all of the sites listed.

By: tweak

tweak — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:42:45 -0800

Tried a bunch of the downloads, only got music samples. A lot of the bands on purevolume offer downloads, too bad most of it is pretty homogenous emo/screamo scene shit. I found these guys pretty interesting, however.

By: copacetix

copacetix — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:45:27 -0800

The blog link is indeed a self link, feel free to mod me down, remove the post, whathaveyou. Everything is everything. The post ( and the blog) were constructed because that is what I am into - finding free, legal music online - and trying to hip other people to it.

By: cosmonik

cosmonik — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:54:52 -0800

The blog link is indeed a self link, feel free to mod me down, remove the post, whathaveyou. Errr, no. Around here, gratuitous self-linking gets you a rabid fist-fucking, minimum. You don't spend much time reading MeFi, do you? (eyeballkid, thanks, I'd forgotten about MetaMusic!)

By: moonbird

moonbird — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:02:13 -0800

good for you to out your own self link! what follows, however, won't be so good.

By: abez

abez — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:02:27 -0800

iRate provides a free service which downloads various songs from various music sites, you rate these songs. Using the ratings, iRate tries to download similar music as recommended by users similar to your tastes. It's opensource and all the music it downloads for you is free.

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:39:20 -0800

Afore this clusterfuck gets deleted, visit the Free and Legal .mp3 Wiki and don't look back. Don't ever look back.

By: Dreamghost

Dreamghost — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:08:36 -0800

The MP3s are the true victims in self-link posts like these...

By: Jairus

Jairus — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:14:02 -0800

Dreamghost is a dirty pirate who knows nothing of what MP3s suffer through. Pay him no mind.

By: Dreamghost

Dreamghost — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:22:52 -0800

ARGH YE MATT'Y SHALL CLEAN THIS MESS UP SOON...

By: boost ventilator

boost ventilator — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:47:58 -0800

The blog link is indeed a self link, feel free to mod me down, remove the post, whathaveyou. Everything is everything. Mod you down? Do you know where you are? Are you familar with this site? Didn't you read this on the post page: "Because linking to your own site in this space will result in a deletion and your account will be banned."

By: scratch

scratch — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:15:06 -0800

I don't care about any of that. I would like someone to tell me if my perceptions of epitonic are correct: it's slanted toward house/techno type stuff, and is pretty out-of-date on other genres.