22 amazing sites to listen to any kind of music for free

Posted on October 27, 2007
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picture music1. We7: “Over the coming months, fans will see We7 become one of the most significant destinations for free downloads. With We7, your favourite tracks from your favourite musicians will eventually be yours to download for free - and it’s safe and legal. You’ll even get the chance to the best new and the latest new bands for free as a We7 TasteMaker”

2. Lala: Find unlimited free on-demand. Restrictions: None. . It’s not available at the moment.

3. SpiralFrog: SpiralFrog is a -based, ad-supported experience, combining discovery with the free acquisition of audio and video files, licensed from major and independent record labels and publishers.

4. Ruckus: “Ruckus Network Inc. is an advertisement-supported online digital media provider for colleges and universities. Schools that partner with Ruckus have access to millions of songs that enrolled students can download legally for free.Users can pay a $20-per-semester fee to take songs from their computers onto portable devices. The service also allows students to buy songs online”.

5. Slacker: “Slacker will provide a radio network that won’t just reach you via browser, but will also stream to a Slacker portable by way of WiFi and — get this — satellite service”"Slacker makes a near-perfect debut… that, in beta at least, beats the pants off Pandora and Last.fm”

6. Pandora: Streaming recommendation service. Restrictions: US only, not on-demand.

7. Last.fm: Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalised to you. You can use Last.fm to listen to , find out about artists you may like, other people with similar taste, gigs in your local area, charts and quilts for your personal site, as well as much more.

8. eMusic:”eMusic is the world’s largest retailer of independent and the world’s second-largest digital retailer overall, offering more than 2 million tracks from more than 13 000 independent labels spanning every genre of “.

9. Qtrax: “Qtrax, the company’s innovative P2P file-sharing service, and has already signed deals with Universal, Sony/ATV, Warner Group, The Orchard, EMI Publishing and EMI , TVT Records, Go Digital, ASCAP and BMI. The Company is based in New York, New York and Melbourne, Australia”.

10. Playble: A nice and completely free download service. Forthcoming. Restrictions: None. It’s not available at the moment, but it might be an interesting comeback.

11. Broadclip: “Right now, you want is playing on some of the 18,000+ radio stations on the . But it’s impossible to sift through the endless choices looking for your musical nirvana. BroadClip’s free MediaCatcher software lets you easily find and enjoy this on your iPod, Cell phone, or other portable media player”.

12. iLike: “Discover and share playlists, new that matches your tastes, and concerts by your favorite artists. The iLike Sidebar* scans your library, recommends new , and helps you connect musically with your friends and the broader iLike community. (* Media Player support now available.)”.

13. MyStrands: “MyStrands develops technologies to better understand people’s taste and help them discover things they like and didn’t know about. MyStrands has created a recommender engine that is able to provide real-time recommendations of products and services through computers, mobile phones and other -connected devices”.

14. iJigg: That’s basically for . It allows to rate, stream, and download free . Very well done. Easy to use.

15. SoundPedia: “Soundpedia is a sharing community that helps users discover great new tunes, find old favorites, share them with friends, family and strangers. On Soundpedia, users can also make a playlist, either interactively or by uploading their existing playlist settings from their favorite players, and they can listen to on their PC or mobile device”.

16. Haystack: It’s a simple network for sharing and discovering new .

17. Deezer: Deezer is the first juke box on demand totally free in the world! The concept is simple:
- Give consumers a full and free access to all their favourite songs
- Pay artists and their producers through a revenue share based on our advertising revenues
- Help discovering new artists through a wide audience

18. Seeqpod: “Currently in Beta, SeeqPod’s first consumer site empowers users by allowing them to search and discover and video all over the . Our intelligent software robots work with targeted crawling systems to auto- content to the site. This, combined with user submissions, results in a large and rich search and discovery index. This process can be viewed in real-time via the PodCrawler”.

19. Jango:Personal radio that learns from your taste and connects you to others who like what you like.

20. Jamendo: “On jamendo, the artists distribute their under Creative Commons licenses. In a nutshell, they allow you to download, remix and share their freely. It’s a “Some rights reserved” agreement, perfectly suited for the new century”.

21. The Hype Machine: The Hype Machine tracks a variety of MP3 blogs. If a post contains MP3 links, it adds those links to its database and displays them on the front page.

22. If you know about any other sites that are worth adding to this list let us know.

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6 Responses to “22 amazing sites to listen to any kind of music for free”

  1. filestube on October 27th, 2007 5:12 pm

    Hi,

    on FilesTube u Can also listen online music - for example - http://www.filestube.com/5525efc52ae1f3/details.html

    Over 800.000 mp3 files in our database.

  2. Kacper Kwapisz on October 27th, 2007 10:50 pm

    musicovery.com is missing.

  3. D on October 28th, 2007 2:55 am

    anywhere.fm

  4. meneame.net on November 7th, 2007 10:51 am

    22 amazing sites to listen to any kind of music for free ; Web 2.0 startups…

    22 sites to listen to music for free….

  5. Aaron on November 18th, 2007 9:40 am

    http://www.finetune.com is also good

  6. c4 on November 30th, 2007 8:54 am

    Fairtilizer, Contrastream, and Meemix aren’t so bad, either.

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