Monday, August 15, 2005
FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM
Free and legal mp3 downloads are available through Amazon.com. Believe it or not you can find some really cool music available for free on Amazon.com. Amazon.com features digital downloads from a large variety of music categories, including Dance & DJ/Electronica, Jazz, Smooth Jazz, R&B/Soul, International, Latin, and New Age. You can find free music from thousands of both signed and unsigned artists, including Thievery Corporation, St. Germain, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Louis Vega , Moby, Yo La Tengo, Depeche Mode, Bob Marley, Ella Fitzgerald, Mariah Carey and Ronnie Spector. The site takes user ratings and uses these to rank the downloads in each category. The customer reviews are one of the strong points - you can read and leave reviews just like other areas of Amazon. The bonus here is that the song lists are updated every six hours and you can download these free mp3’s to iTunes and to your iPod, plus you can also burn them to disc. Aside from the free mp3’s available, you can also listen to full-length tracks from newly released albums. This is great if you want to hear the entire song (or songs) before you eventually make a purchase - either through Amazon or another resource such as Napster or iTunes. Note that Amazon could potentially move into the digital mp3 download for-a-fee marketplace as they are in the "early discussion and planning" stages at this point in time.
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