I wrote an article about living without the music industry a month ago. In this article I added some good sites that offered free musik downloads. Lots of people replied to this article and added more sites that they used to get free music. Free, meaning free of charges and free to download without breaking the law.
I think that this is a good way to listen to great music for free, support the artists that contribute their music and show the music industry that there are other methods to distribute than forcing the customer to buy copy protected, rootkit infested overpriced music cds.
Update: I published a new updated list that can is named Free Music List July 2007.
Today I decided to compile a big list of free music sites on the internet, I hope you enjoy this selection.
I encourage everyone to add his site to the list and give a rough intro to it. The list does not contain internet radio stations or streaming services, only sites that allow downloads in mp3 format (its fine if they offer additional streaming services) . I made an exception to sites that offer a huge list of streaming titles, those have been added as well.
| Name | registration | remark |
| 3 Hive | no | review site with downloads and streams |
| Altsounds | no | great assortment, not all songs downloadable |
| Amazon Music Downloads | yes | |
| Ampcast | no | only streaming |
| Archive.org Netlabels | no | |
| Artistopia | no | downloading and streaming |
| Audiostreet | no | Streaming and Downloading |
| Audiri | no | great assortment, not all songs downloadable |
| Bluebeat | yes | only streaming |
| CC Mixter | no | only mixes |
| Cd Baby | no | only streaming |
| Feels like Christmas | no | christmas music |
| Classic Cat | no | provides links to download sites |
| Dance Industries | no | |
| Digitalsounds | no | downloads and streams, german language |
| Dmusic | no | downloads and streams |
| Download.com | no | |
| Epitonic | no | Streaming and Downloading |
| Etree Live Concerts | no | bittorrent downloads |
| Etree Live Music | no | only live music |
| Foem | no | |
| Free Kids Songs | no | songs for children |
| Free Sound Project | no | free sound samples |
| Garageband | no | good selection, hard to navigate |
| Gigatracks | no | downloads and streams |
| Into Music | no | downloads and streams |
| Iuma | no | |
| Jamendo | no | bittorent or emule downloads |
| Kahvi | no | |
| Karadar | no | classic music only |
| Legal Torrents | no | bittorent downloads |
| Magnatune | no | downloads and streaming |
| Mixposure | no | |
| Mp3.com.au | no | downloads and streams |
| Mp3 Jackpot | no | downloads |
| Muzie | no | japanese site |
| Overclocked Remix | no | computer and video game remixes |
| Oddio Overplay | no | links to artists homepages |
| Oggle | no | google like search engine |
| One Netlabel | no | |
| Op Sound | no | |
| Purevolume | no | |
| Remixwars | yes | electronic music |
| Singfish | no | only streaming, lots of known bands |
| Soundclick | no | few downloads, mostly streaming |
| Soundlift | no | streaming and downloading |
| Starfrosch | no | german site |
| Superhits | no | german, mostly german songs |
| Tonspion | no | german site |
| United Bands | no | |
| Vitaminic | no | only streaming |
| Weed Files | no | only wma |
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