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There are a whole lot of free public domain music downloads available if you only know where to look. Typically, however, if you want really good sounding downloads; you will have to pay a small fee.
Many of the free downloads are of a poor quality, so it may be well worthwhile to pay a nominal fee to download high-quality recordings to your computer. Once on your computer, you can burn them to a CD which will play in your car. You can also download them to your Mp3 player and take your favorite music with you wherever you go.
Anyone interested in public domain music downloads should know there are legal and illegal sites. Legal sites are those where the music is distributed by the owner of the copyrights to the music (sometimes that is the artist, recording company, publisher, etc.) Illegal sites, simply put, are just the opposite. Illegal sites distribute music they do not own in any way, shape or form. If a consumer knowingly downloads public domain music from an illegal site, they are subject to penalty by law. These penalties can be in the form of monetary fines and sometimes, even include jail time or community service. Additionally, illegal music downloads are often of poor or very poor quality.
The bottom line is if you want good quality and good variety in your public domain music downloads, you will be paying for them. The great news is it is very inexpensive to purchase songs from many legal sites. Napster-Tunes is one of the favorite, legal music downloading sites. Napster offers 5 million full-length songs that represent more than 250 genres. Other popular sites include MyRhapsody.com and 1000Musicdownloads.com.
Many sites such as these offer consumers a free trial period. During the free trial period (ranging from one to four weeks usually), consumers can download as much music as they like for no cost. When the free period expires, you are given the option of quitting or enrolling as a member. Membership fees are very reasonable, usually paid a month at a time, and often cost less than the price of one album or CD.
There are sites where you can legally download free music. These sites are called file-sharing or peer-peer. The major players in this arena are Limewire and Kazaa. Music lovers upload their music to the site via the internet. Many thousands of people do this with many thousands of songs. Anyone can register, share their music and download music from the site. Most of the music on these sites is relatively modern, as file-sharing seems to appeal to the younger crowd. You will, however, find the classics, like Elvis, Peggy Lee and Dean Martin there as well.
If you are interested in music downloads, visit Any Music Downloads. Isaiah Henry has been doing research in this field for some time and has provided reviews on services. If you have questions or comments post on the Music forum.
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