Sideload gathers free tracks from the web and makes them available on one single spot.
It’s populated by users of MP3tunes Locker, an online music space that can be synced with many browsers, home entertainment and mobile devices. Besides uploading music, a plug in called sideload lets users add (or side-load) free music that they found on the Internet to their MP3tunes Locker with a single click. Sideload.com gathers those files.
Sideload.com is an easy way to find great MP3 files from bands all over the Internet. You can quickly preview tracks and store them permanently in your Locker with one click!
To download the MP3s click on the tracks’ title and scroll down to the link that says: Download this track. Right click and save as.
Are the MP3s really legal?
Sideload.com collects MP3s that are available for free directly from Internet. They assume that these MP3s are legal. You can read all about it in the FAQ
RCRD LBL is a network of online record labels and blogs serving up fresh new music downloads!
You can choose between Artists, Labels and Latest menu’s. In Artist there is an alphabetical search, a most recent and a most popular list of artists. Once you choose a release, it can be streamed (listened to), downloaded or shared (via e-mail). Songs can also be embedded on you’re own blog by clicking on the “Embed this track on your site”-link. To do that, you’ll first have to click on a particular song first. Clicking on “blog” lets you see what bloggers write about the song.
Looking for a specific genre? Click on the “genre” button in the menu near the middel of the page. The genres are organized in a tag-cloud like manner.
example of an embedded track: (Royksopp – The girl and the robot (Ocelot remix) )
You can download the music for free provided it is being used for personal, non-commercial use. All music on RCRD LBL is free and legally available for downloading when offered. Some of the music is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.
betterPropaganda offers 100 percent independent music. The magazine showcases artists from more than 600 independent labels. On betterPropaganda you’ll find thousands of free and legal downloads.
The site is easy to use. Look in the top menu for “find music” and go to the divers music collection pages. Choose between new MP3s, Popular music, artist lists, … I lets you play all the songs on the page by clicking the play link. A player with cover art, similar songs, playlists, … will popup. Or you can download the music.
Don’t know what to pick? Read the many reviews and news items under the “our picks” menu. Interested in what the guys at bP like? Browse the “staff picks”.
If you want to search by genre go to the “find music” menu and choose “most popular”. On the right there is a window listing “other charts”. There is a section for Hip Hop, Rock and Electronic. The “show somilar music” link in the player is particularly handy for browsing the site by genre.
Musikethos.org offers free classical music by a group of professional musicians. The music sits in the public domain and makes use of the Creative Commons licences (podsafe). The quality of the recordings are great! The site features music of many of the great composers:
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beethoven, Ludwig Van
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frederic
- da Firenze, Lorenzo
- Feliciani, Luciano
- Haydn, Franz Joseph
- Joplin, Scott
- Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Rossini, Gioacchino
- Schumann, Robert
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- Strauss, Johann
Listen to some examples:
- Felix Mendelssohn – Allegro vivace, from the Symphony no.4 “Italian”
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- Johann Sebastian Bach – Allegro from the Sonata n. 2 for violin (guitar)
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- Ludwig Spohr – Adagio-Allegro from the Concerto No.1 for clarinet and orchestra
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Go to www.musikethos.org
High quality entertainment is hard to discover if the big entertainment industries don’t back it. We either spend hours on the Internet sifting through songs to get to the right stuff, or just give up looking.
Indiefeed Podcasts brings great to you. They collect unique and relevant works from artists that have given permission to distribute their content.
IndieFeed’s mission:
Become a trusted and reliable source for exceptional independent content via the podcast medium, and to create a workable promotion delivery model to grant more bargaining and financial power back to artists, and provide new controla nd choices for listeners.
With Simplify media you can browse and listen to your entire home library of digital music on other computers over the internet within iTunes or Winamp and you can share it with up to 30 other computers in a private group.
This free service is fast to set-up, because you don’t have to upload your files. The files are streamed from your computer to your private group, so it is safe and legal. It’s compatible with apple and PC’s and plays virtually any filetype.
Simplify Media is also available for the iPone wherever you have access to a wireless network. This movie demonstrates it’s use.
