There are many legal ways to download songs, and surely the latest songs online. People have their own choice of songs and prefer to listen to them. The song may be from their native country or from other countries.
There are many sites which allow you to download songs from their sites by charging some fees. These songs are mainly in MP3 file format which puts a certain limit on the number or amount of files that one can download. About 35% of music lovers take the help of legal music downloading sites to download music through internet. These licensed and certified sites are growing consistently.
The demand for legal music downloading sites has increased because of the following reasons:
- There are millions of songs to download from the internet. It is virtually impossible to get all the songs in the local music stores.
- The non licensed sites do not provide freedom from computer viruses. There are hosts of viruses that can enter your PC from free music sites and can corrupt all your data.
- The quality of music at the licensed music download sites is far better than the free sites.
- People are downloading music legally as they get cheap music, superb quality of download and greater music selection.
- The legal sites have a revenue share plan with the music companies and the artists therefore they do not break any copyright act.
- The legal music downloading sites are mainly subscription based sites. But some sites provide flexible fees per download or pay per each burning service. Some sites also allow to have a free trial period.
Some of the popular legal sites for music downloads are:
- Napster- it is one of the oldest and best site for music download. One can download unlimited music through their ‘Napster go plan’.
- eMusic- this is very popular site having a collection of more than 2 million MP3 songs. This site allows you to have 25 free MP3 songs download. They have songs are from all over the world and they all are DRM free.
- Rhapsody- this site has been adjudged the best site. There are innumerable songs to download from Rhapsody. Advanced technology for CD burning is also available. One can gain benefit from their free trial offers.
There are some disadvantages also of legal music downloading sites:
- There is lesser music selection available to download than P2P file sharing networks. The legal music sites do not have movies, games, TV shows etc.
- Some times the subscription of the legal sites become much more than expected. But sill they are cheaper than buying the music CD from the stores
There is another way to download your favorite songs and it is through P2P networks. These networks provide unlimited download of free music which are DRM. P2P file-sharing networks also provide games, TV shows etc for complete entertainment.
There are many ways that you can download a song legally but it should be your endeavor to see that the artists are not cheated. It is advisable that you try to download from the legal downloading sites and if you want free songs, take the offers of free trials provided by the legal sites.