Sunday, August 30, 2009

An Introduction To Finding Legal Music Downloads

By Katheryn Lucas

Luckily, finding legal music downloads on the Internet is nothing like as difficult as it used to be. Finally, the music companies have started getting their act together and allowing people to download music of the Internet for a modest fee. This has a number of advantages associated with it.

The great advantage of music downloads is that you do not need to download a whole album. Up until recent times, the only other choice was to buy an entire album, spend a lot more money on it and get a load of music you don't want anyway.

Although some retailers to allow you to mix your own CD, it is very inconvenient and something that many people just aren't interested in when they can download and music file in just a couple of minutes on the Internet.

Downloading music allows you to play it in your favourite media player and of course you can copy the music to a flash drive and play it on another computer or use it on your portable media player. Not only this, then you don't have to worry about ripping your CDs into MP3 format.

Files are normally compressed in MP3 format, which has long been the most popular format of music on computers. MP3 is not quite as high in quality is a CD is, but many people won't even be able to tell the difference. However, many online shops which sell music downloads will allow you to download high definition files in various other formats, and offering something far more versatile to their customers.

It certainly is a blessing and finally the music industry has got its act together and started providing the services, since before it was one of the main reasons than many people were turning to piracy, simply for the convenience factor.

By far the biggest database and the most well known one is the service that comes with people who buy Apple iPods. ITunes is extremely popular, quite affordable and has a number of other advantages associated with it such as a huge database and thus downloads.

However, one of the complaints that people often have about MP3 is that it is lower quality than CD recordings. While this is true, the average user won't notice much difference as files that you download tend to be high quality at the sacrifice of more file space.

However, there are various other options and many countries in the world have legal music download resources available so you are not only limited to music from your own country in most cases. All you need is a reasonably fast Internet connection, for credit card and a bit of money to spend. You will be able to build up your music collection much faster, cheaper and what's more, you will be able to have exactly what you want and no extra files that you aren't interested in.

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