Free Music Sites?

[marcusesses]

Hi,

As I was searching around for an audio/video player yesterday, I came across a blog entry that listed a number of sites that offered free downloads (pirate-free, of course).

I was wondering if anyone has come across any popular site like this? What type of music do they offer (there are sites that only offer certain genres, etc.)?

Any suggestions?

[barbedsaber]

www.jamendo.com
FTW!
they have a bit of everything, (well, I don't know how much of each genre, I only get techno/electro, but listen by tryad (try^d or tryAd, people pick their own interpretation.) is really worth a getting. They give you the album as a zip, but it is all loose within that (when you extract, for example, listen by tryad, you would make a folder called listen, and unzip to that, or it would get really cluttered)

[Separ]

You could try Skreemr (http://www.skreemr.com), it comes integrated with Songbird (http://getsongbird.com/) music player, which I recommend. It's open source and has an interface that looks like itunes, it also supports ipod's if you have one. :)

[Trenchbroom]

I've had good success with Cr3ation. I listen to mostly older music and I'd say that 60% of the time I can find it on here. And if you knew my obscure musical tastes you'd say that is a VERY good result!

http://http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/site/music-plus/

[NovaAesa]

I have to second what barbedsabre said: Jamendo. If you like a electro music, that is the place to go. They also have heaps of indie style rock as well. And best of all, you can get the songs from there in ogg vorbis format.

Some of the stuff from there is truly amazing! Nehoryn, NeXus, Nytrogen, Try^d, Fresh Body Shop, Pornophonic, the list just goes on...

[Nostrafus]

Eh, I don't really download them, but http://www.playlist.com has music you can put into a playlist, slap it onto a myspace/xanga/facebook/other social networking page, then just go to your profile when you want to listen to music, saves you hard drive space, and keeps you from accidentally downloading pirated stuff, even if you're looking for legit music, they just remove it from their search library if the artist has a problem with it.

[barbedsaber]

I have to second what barbedsabre said: Jamendo. If you like a electro music, that is the place to go. They also have heaps of indie style rock as well. And best of all, you can get the songs from there in ogg vorbis format.

Some of the stuff from there is truly amazing! Nehoryn, NeXus, Nytrogen, Try^d, Fresh Body Shop, Pornophonic, the list just goes on...

pornophonic is great. NeXus is pretty good, and I live by Tryad, might go check out the others now. (may I recommend you try awesome by the sillyjunX if you like technoish, and the ULL: the forbidden flight, by Underlivinline for general goodness. I could spend all day recomending jamendo albums worth having, but for now, I will post my last.fm profile
http://www.last.fm/user/mynameistux.

EDIT: where can you find it in OGG vorbis, I have looked, but failed to find.

[NovaAesa]

pornophonic is great. NeXus is pretty good, and I live by Tryad, might go check out the others now. (may I recommend you try awesome by the sillyjunX if you like technoish, and the ULL: the forbidden flight, by Underlivinline for general goodness.
Thank for the recomendation, I'm checking out The SillyJunX now, and might have a look at Underlivinline later.



EDIT: where can you find it in OGG vorbis, I have looked, but failed to find.
You can change it in your general preferences. Click on your user name in the top right of the screen, "your" page should load. Then click "Edit Your Data" and then on "Edit Preferences". You can change the settings there. I think they removed the option for direct download of ogg though =[ There only seems to be ogg via torrent (which isn't all that bad I guess).