Public Domain Music Downloads - Simple To Come Across And Easier To Use

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If you no longer interested in trekking to the mall to visit your local record shop, you might want to consider downloading your music. If you are new to this, �downloading� simply means transferring a music file from an inter-facing computer or website to a user�s computer. Downloading a single song often takes only second, while downloading an entire album can take about five minutes or less � sure beats gassing up the car to drive to the store to buy your music.

Some free downloads may be of poor quality, but you could luck out and get some great sounding tracks for free. If you want to ensure consistent, high-quality downloads, you are probably better off considering a site that charges a fee. In many cases there are free introductory offers. Even when you are asked to pay a membership fee, they are very reasonable in price. Free sites typically have a limited amount of songs available while public domain music download sites that charge a fee usually give you access to many more songs and provide copies that could rival the master tracks.

If you have never downloaded public ...
... domain music before, don�t be intimidated. It is a simple process that requires just a few easy steps. If you are not exactly sure what the term �download� means, here is a simple definition: Download (whether they are music, text or data files) refers to transferring the files from a computer which is hooked-up to the internet or website to a user�s computer. So, you access a downloading site or website and transfer it to your computer. Once on your computer, you can save it to a disk or to a portable device � the most popular being the Mp3 player.

Many public domain music downloading sites offer a free trial period. After the free trial period expires, you are required to pay a monthly (or quarterly) fee for their services. The best and most popular sites allow you to listen to songs before you download them � this is helpful in a couple of ways. First, you can be sure you are getting the song you are looking for and you can be sure the quality is good. MyRhapsody.com, for instance, offers a fourteen-day free trial. During the fourteen days, you can download as many songs as you like. At the end of the fourteen days, you pay $12.99 monthly to download an unlimited number of songs. When a single CD can often cost upwards of twenty dollars, this is a real bargain.

Napster-Tunes is a public domain site which offers a free two-week trial period. During that two-week period, you can download as many songs as you wish. At the end of the trial period, you are required to either quit using the site or to purchase a monthly membership. Monthly fees at Napster-Tunes are approximately $13.00 and you can cancel at the end of any month. If you compare $13.00 for all of the songs you want with the cost of a single CD, it seems to be quite a bargain. Napster, one of the oldest public domain music downloading sites is known for producing great quality records along with offering superb customer service. Napster-Tunes boast a library of more than 5Million songs, consisting of 250 different genres. You can listen to full-length versions of the songs before you decide whether you want to purchase them.

As you can see, there is no shortage of ways to access public domain music downloads. You can save your music to your computer for storage or transferring to another device. Many people transfer their songs to CDs or MP3 players so they can have music on-the-go. Thirty years ago, music on-the-go was available only by carrying a transistor radio with you. As the slogan says, �we�ve come a long way, baby�.