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Jackey · Guest

Hello

Please tell me from where can I download the music legally?
Give me a few good links.

-Jackey

Donald · Guest

Hello

There are services that let you legally download and burn the music you want. Most sites offer at least a three-day trial. After that, you'll generally have to pay a fee each month.

Pressplay (pressplay.com) offers unlimited streaming and non-burnable downloaded songs for $9.95 per month. To access the music, you'll have to install software from the site. Any downloaded non-burnable music is worthless once your subscription runs out. You'll no longer have access to them.

Rhapsody (listen.com) also charges $9.95 per month for unlimited streaming songs. Here you don't download the music. You download a music player that gives you access to the music.

AOL subscribers might want to check out MusicNet (musicnet.com). For unlimited streaming and non-burnable downloads, you'll pay $8.95 per month. There's also a basic service for $3.95 for a limited amount of downloads and streams.

But most people want the ability to burn those songs onto CD or transfer them to a portable MP3 player. That costs extra and there's no consensus on a business model.

Pressplay makes you buy packages. In addition to the monthly subscription fee, you can purchase 5 burnable songs for $5.95, 10 for $9.95 or 20 songs for $18.95. If you want 21 songs, you'll have to purchase a package of 20 and a package of 5.

MusicNet offers a package for $17.95. This gives you unlimited streams and non-burnable downloads plus 10 burnable downloads. Those 10 burnable downloads do not carry over each month, so use it or lose it.

Rhapsody believes in the a la carte system. Each song will set you back 79 cents. Don't forget, you'll still be paying a monthly fee of $9.95.

What kind of music is offered? Each site has a fairly extensive library with no less than 300,000 tracks. That's a lot of music, but is it music you like?

Pressplay is backed by big music industry giants. So you'll be able to find chart toppers like Beyonce, Audioslave and Kenny Chesney.
With MusicNet, you'll have access to current artists like Pink and Eminem, as well as some old school folks like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.

Rhapsody is no slouch in the popular artist category. It offers tracks from popular acts such as Limp Bizkit, Shania Twain and Ashanti. You'll also find back catalogues from Vic Damone, Glenn Miller and Peggy Lee.

There are other sites as well. Apple Computer's iTunes (apple.com/itunes) has garnered a lot of press recently. It costs 99 cents to download a song and there are no subscription fees. Unfortunately, you must own a Mac. Apple hopes to have a Windows version running by year-end.

If you don't want to pay anything, check out MP3.com (mp3.com), Peoplesound (peoplesound.com) or SoundClick (soundclick.com). There's free music to download and burn, but it's mostly from unknown, unsigned artists.