I don’t want to discuss the legal questions that surely arise when downloading songs found using Bee Mp3. Depending on the country that you live in it could either be completely legal, semi-legal or illegal to use it to find and download mp3 songs.

Bee Mp3 lets you search by album, artist, song or everything. Depending on the search phrase you might very well end up with hundreds of search results. Below the search mask are listings of the World, US and Euro Top 10 and a cloud of the latest 200 searches.

A search or a click on a top 10 song or artist loads the search result page which displays file names, song names, the name of the album, artist and search tags. A click on the file or song name tries to load the mp3 song. The link is encrypted and becomes visible as soon as the new website loads.

I conducted some tests with the result that several results lead to websites that are not existent anymore, ran out of bandwidth or removed the song. Testing some results however always lead to one website that had the complete song which could be listened to and downloaded from that website.

Even not so well known artists like Bridge to Solace, Ignite and At The Gates are found by Bee Mp3. As you can see I love Hardcore and Metal but do listen to different genres as well.

Conclusion:

Bee Mp3 is an easy to use search engine that finds popular and not so popular songs, artists and albums. Most search results lead to the right result which can be listened to or downloaded. It can be seen as an advanced mp3 search similar to that of Google with the benefit of interlinking search results by using tags like album and artist names.

via Lifehacker

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A download starts when you click on the Free link next to the artists name and song title. It is possible to listen to the songs before you start the download by clicking on the mp3 link in that row. The songs can be downloaded by visitors and users alike, no registration is needed for this.

One thing that bothers me a little bit is that the songs cannot be sorted by genre. I did however find a link on Liquid Parallax that pointed to a website where Last.fm users where categorizing the free mp3 downloads. Just click on one of the genres in the tagcloud which will load a new site where all artists of that genre that offer free mp3 downloads are listed.

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I added genres to several sites if it was obvious and did not mention one if the site offered more than one genre. Downloads means that you can directly download music – normally mp3 files – from the site while streaming means that you can stream the music on the website.

Take a look at my article about Grab++ for a possible method to download music from sites that stream music. Feel free to add any music site that you know and is not in the list.

Major Sites:

Archive.org Netlabels [downloads]
Audiostreet [downloads, streaming]
CCMixter [downloads, streaming]
Dance Industries [downloads, streaming]
Digital Sounds Electronic Music [downloads]
DMusic [downloads, streaming]
Electrobel Electronic music [downloads, streaming]
Epitonic [downloads, streaming]
ETree.org [torrent downloads]
FOEM [downloads]
Garageband [downloads, streaming]
Gigatracks [downloads, streaming]
Jamendo [torrent downloads, streaming]

Only Streaming:

Altsounds Alternative [streaming]
Artistopia [streaming]
Blogmusic [streaming]
Bluebeat [streaming]
CDBaby [streaming]
Download.com [streaming]
Fabchannel Concerts [streaming]
Imeem [streaming]
Intomusic [streaming]
Last.fm [streaming]
Magnatune [streaming]
Mp3.com.au [streaming]
Musicovery Find new music [streaming]
Musicmesh Find similar artists [streaming]
Musipedia Midi Files [streaming]
Seeqpod [streaming]
Soundpedia [streaming]
Stage.fm [streaming]
Stereokiller [streaming]

Blogs:

3Hive [downloads]
Free Albums Galore [downloads]
Gratisvibes [download, streaming]
Large Hearted Boy [downloads]
MP3 Blog [downloads]
Blocsonic [downloads]
Starfrosch [downloads]

Other:

Better Propaganda [downloads, streaming]
Cantaria Traditional Western European Folk [downloads]
Classic Cat Classic Music [downloads]
Feels Like Christmas Christmas Songs vocal and instrumental [downloads]
Free Children’s Music Children’s Music [download, streaming]
Freesound Sounds, not songs [downloads]
Kahvi [streaming, download]
Karadar Classic Music, currently script problems [downloads]
Lawrence [downloads]
Legal Torrents [torrent downloads]
Mixposure Indie Music [downloads, streaming]
MP3 Jackpot [downloads]
Muzie Japanese site [downloads, streaming]
New Trinity Baroque Classic Music [streaming, downloads]
Overclocked Remix remixed game music [torrent downloads]
Opsound [downloads]
Piano Society Classical music [downloads]
Public Domain 4U [downloads]
Pure Volume [downloads, streaming]
Unexotica Amiga music archive [downloads]
Soundclick [streaming]
Soundlift [streaming]
South by Southwest 2007 [download]
South by Southwest 2006 [download]
South by Southwest 2005 [download]
Superhits [downloads]
Tonspion German site [downloads]
Weed Files [downloads]

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The most successful album on Jamendo has been downloaded more than 11000 times which is a huge success for the artists that decided to upload their work to Jamendo. Users can listen to and download more than 2800 albums at Jamendo using streams and the bittorrent network. If you are looking for free music you should definetely visit Jamendo and start listening to some of the tracks suggested there. Below is a short sample of my favorite songs that can be listened to and downloaded at Jamendo. (I’m into Electronica at the moment)

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