Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
It’s difficult to find music that’s actually worth listening to. Although many bands offer music on their websites, there’s no real way to tell if it’s any good without actually downloading it.
The labels do serve the (somewhat) legitimate purpose of picking out the good from the bad. But we can do that ourselves with legal downloads by using collaborative filtering, for example by downloading our music with iRATE radio, which you’ll find at http://irate.sourceforge.net/:
iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering client/server mp3 player/downloader. The iRATE server has a large database of music. You rate the tracks and it uses your ratings and other peoples to guess what you’ll like. The tracks are downloaded from Web sites which allow free downloads of their music.
As of July 2003, the iRATE server has 46,000 tracks registered.
Another music review site is Gods of Music: “Music Reviews for the Independent Music Scene”. There are many reviews on the site: their Hall of Fame lists the very best, and their Dungeon lists the worst.
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