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Sunday, December 11, 2005
How to get 50 free MP3s legally
Maybe this is old news but I’m a little slow. HA!
Long story short, I went with my girlfriend to the Historical Museum today. They have this nice Christmas display they run every year. Anyhoo, they were playing Christmas music and it was “Christmas Time is Here” from the Charlie Brown Christmas album.
It’s a great song and I really wanted to have it so I started digging around the net for it. I found out it’s in the eMusic.com library.
eMusic I think is the only pay music site on the net that actually uses normal non-DRMed MP3s. They do a monthly subscription model where you can download a preset number of songs. It varies but the cheapest plan is 9.99/mo for 40 downloads. That’s not too bad when you think about it. One cd will burn you 12-20bucks right? And it only has maybe 10 songs. I’d say 10 bucks for 40 tracks is a pretty good deal.
So I see they have a free trail membership where you can download 50 songs for free and keep them even if you cancel your subscriptions.
So, this is where I’m getting 50 free MP3s legally. I’ll be downloading the whole Charlie Brown Christmas album plus whatever else I find this week then cancel my subscription.
The only downfall to their service is the music quality. Songs are only encoded at 192kbps variable bit rate. Which is good enough for most people but it would be nice to have the option of getting nice 320kbps archive quality files.
But it’ll do just fine and I’ll be happy with what I get considering it’s free!
on 12/11/2005 at 06:56 PM