Okay, first we'll start to get free music from some well known artists!

On R.E.M.HQ dot com you can get 10 remixed songs (incl. Cover art) from the album Reveal for free.

The Smashing Pumpkins providing 25 free songs! Visit Metro Chicago and get them.

The guys from Metallica let us download a lot of songs from various concerts! Visit LiveMetallica dot com, scroll down the Catalogue page til you see Free Downloads. You have to create a free account!

Charlie Hunter gives us the chance to get 3 albums (19 songs) with cd labels, front and back covers.

They Might Be Giants offer a newsletter with some free content like mp3s.

AnalogX offers more than 90 tracks of electronic music for free.

Visit the Lenny Kravitz Website and get a free mp3.

Well, last but not least I want to present Texas with their great front woman Sharleen Spiteri. Visit (weekly) the official and best fansite of Texas where you can get the file of the week which can be an audio or video file, a screensaver or photos. The official Texas website and the Texas MySpace.

Sharleen Spiteri Solo project: Official Website, last.fm, MySpace and Youtube.


A big Thank you to all artists and bands!


Now we'll check out some sites where we can get free and legal songs from various not so well known artists but believe me, thousands of really good artists providing their music for free and you can download very much good music!

Why do they provide songs for free?

Starting a carreer is not really easy, so they provide some songs for free to get attention. Others who are better known, give us sometimes the chance to get some tracks for free before they release new albums or after they released new albums. It's really a cheaper way as to pay thousands of bucks for commercial ads. That way they can promote the music worldwide and a couple of artists do it only because they like their fans very much.

The largest and best archive I know: music.download.com

Three other sites: Soundlift   MPeX   MTV


Thanks again to all artists, bands and providers!

After we got enough music we need a good player and maybe a tag editor for writing or completing the informations like title and artist. All tools are free and can be downloaded thru visiting the developers websites or visit my Freeware site, read my self written reviews and download the programs from there. I'm using most of the programs since a lot of month now or I tested them.

Here we go, Winamp is a player which plays nearly all known audio formats and a lot of video formats.

Developers website and Winamp on my website.

The second player I recommend is 1by1 Player. This player is very handy, small in size (101 KB) and runs directly without setup.

Developers website and 1by1 Player on my website.

Volume normalization for single files and contents of whole folders: MP3Gain

Developers website and MP3Gain on my website.

A good tool for editing track informations (ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags): Mp3tag

Developers website and Mp3tag on my website.

A ripper for extracting tracks from CDs (without copy control) to hard drives: CDex

Developers website and CDex on my website.

Cut mp3 files directly without converting to wav: mp3DirectCut

Developers website and mp3DirectCut on my website.

Clean up mp3s from unwanted noises, fade in and fade out: mpTrim

Developers website and mpTrim on my website.

Create your own music or ringtones for cell phones: Audacity

Developers website and Audacity on my website.

Get even more music! Record songs legally from web radio: Screamer Radio

Developers website and Screamer Radio on my website.

Burn your music on CD or DVD: Deep Burner

Developers website and Deep Burner on my website.

Print covers for the burned CDs and DVDs: UnderCoverXP

Developers website and UnderCoverXP on my website.


Okay, that's it! Enjoy the music! ;)