During the last years downloading music on the Internet
has increased in popularity. At the same time, however, it has
become illegal through many companies to download music like
musicians and artists have been losing money on the sales of their CDs.
With many people being sued in recent years for
download music, is it really possible to download music?
legally more? If so, at what price will it cost you
download music?
As music sites like Napster and Kazaa and many more have
have tried to create sites to download free music, have
it just increased the problem that much more. Some of the users of
These shows have learned the hard way that music doesn’t
They come for free as they were sued for illegally downloading music.
Today there are many sites where you can download music on
where they claim that it is 100% legal. The latest music file
The formats used are Windows® Media (WMA), advanced acoustic encoding
(AAC) and Atrac 3, and are very popular as it increases the
sound quality that brings it closer to a real store bought CD.
Another great advantage is that many sites like
SonicSelector service on MSN lets you preview music
before you buy it. Today, many sites also offer a three-day trial.
from your music download site, and then
you have to start paying a monthly fee. Then it is possible
download music legally online, but at what cost?
Pressplay.com offers unlimited music for a price of $ 9.95 per
month and then you also have to install the software from your
site. Downloaded music cannot be recorded and once
subscription runs out, you no longer have access to any of your
songs. Rhapsody on listen.com also charges $ 9.95 per month for
music that cannot be recorded, but instead of downloading it,
download a music player that gives you access to the songs.
Now you can download music and you know the basic price for
month for non-recordable songs. However, most people download
music so they can burn their favorite CDs with a variety of
songs. Transfer these songs to a personal CD or MP3
player will cost you even more. Many sites offer packages for
songs capable of burning versus a fixed price per song.
For example, Pressplay offers 5 recordable songs for $ 5.95, 10
recordable songs for $ 9.95, 20 recordable songs for $ 18.95 and then
in addition to those prices, you still have to pay the monthly payment
fee to use the program. MusicNet offers a package for $ 17.95 to
next month with unlimited music downloads and 10
burnable songs.
There are other sites like apple.com/itunes that are priced at
99 cents to download a song and there is no monthly fee, but
you must have a Mac to do this. Sites like mp3.com,
peopleound.com and soundclick.com offer free music for
download and record. The problem is that these sites offer a
most unknown artists and songs.
With the exception of the last few sites I’ve mentioned, you
you will find a relatively large selection of music to choose from
in all these places. Neither site offers less than
300,000 songs to choose from featuring all the biggest names in
the music industry like Eminem, Britney Spears and even
Old men like Elvis, The Beatles and Frank Sinatra.
There are websites that are 100% legal for users to
download music in. The question now is how much money do you have
willing to pay to download all the hottest songs today, and
Are you willing to pay more to put those songs on a CD?