http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/27/download-1000-free-mp3/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/27/download-1000-free-mp3/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:55:34 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14827 Microsoft and Reverbnation are currently running a promotion that is offering 1000 songs for free download. The songs are available in mp3 and m4a format and can be downloaded directly from one of the websites the promotion is running on. This includes the Windows Myspace page and a special Windows directory at Reverbnation.

You find a good mixture of established artists in the list including songs by Bif Naked, Underoath or Warren G but the majority of songs comes from artists that most visitors probably never heard of. This does not necessarily mean that this is bad music. It is actually a good way of discovering new artists that are not that in the focus of mass media.

The downloaded songs have been encoded with 192 Kbit and it is likely that all songs are encoded in this bitrate. Music can be sorted by letter or genre which helps to find the right music genre or artist.

There is no word yet on the duration of this promotion. Thanks goes to jagslive for sending us the tip.

Tags: free m4a, free-mp3, free-music, m4a download, mp3, mp3 download, music, reverbnation, Windows

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/27/download-1000-free-mp3/feed/ 11 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/06/download-20-metallica-live-albums-for-free/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/06/download-20-metallica-live-albums-for-free/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:19:51 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6830 I have to admit that I was a Metallica fan back then in the times of Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets and denied their existence after their release of the Black Album. My denial was confirmed by their stance against file sharing and their fans which was full of blatant mistakes and an inability to understand what was going on.

It surprised me that they decided to offer 20 Metallica live albums from 1982-2003 for free on their website Live Metallica which is selling live albums from their recent concerts as mp3 and flac on the site as well. Well the 20 albums are free to download after registering at the website which just takes an email and password.

Don’t expect the downloads to be that easy. They are offering a Java download manager or single downloads of the files. Single downloads mean that a user would have to right-click files about two hundreds times to download all of them. Most live albums have a playing time between 1:30 and 2 hours and mostly contain classic Metallica songs. All test downloads used a bitrate of 192 Kbit.

A nice surprise for Metallica fans, past and present.

Tags: albums, free-mp3, livemetallica, metallica, metallica mp3, metallive live, offers

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/06/download-20-metallica-live-albums-for-free/feed/ 16 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/16/sideload-download-free-mp3/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/16/sideload-download-free-mp3/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:29:33 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/16/sideload-download-free-mp3/ icon to play the song that you want to listen to.]]> Moby, James Blunt, Metallica, Jack Johnson and Madonna. That is only a sample of the artists that you can find on Sideload. Sideload basically searches the internet for free mp3 files that are for example used for promotions or available on the artists websites. Those mp3 files get indexed by Sideload and can then be found using the Sideload search. The homepage of Sideload already lists about 100 mp3 files that can be instantly listened to. Just click on the little green > icon to play the song that you want to listen to.

If you click on the title you will be taken to a detailed page which displays information about the source website that offered the mp3 and the option to download or email the mp3 file. Downloads begin immediately and require no registration at all. The same page lists other mp3 files by the same artist or group which can also be downloaded from Sideload. Sideload partnered up with mp3tunes to offer its users a so called music locker.

This is basically a way to transfer the mp3 files that you like to the mp3tunes online locker. This is great if you can’t download the mp3 files right from Sideload. Just transfer them to your locker and download them later when you are able to download the mp3 files.

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Tags: download-mp3, free-commercial mp3, free-mp3, mp3, mp3-search, mp3-search-engine, sideload

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