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Almost everyone has heard about the legal proceedings regarding the distribution of music files online. Regardless of which side of the issue someone mind find themselves on, downloading music on the Internet has struck a chord with nearly everyone. For someone who owns or plans to own an MP3 player it is important to play by the rules to ensure they don't wind up in the middle of this ugly fight. Here are a few online sources for downloading digital music legally that charge reasonable amounts and have respectable names.
1. AOL Music Now--America Online has been a major name in the Internet world since the early nineties and boasts over 1.5 million songs in their database for members to use. AOL's service is available on a free trial and then for $0.99 per downloaded song.
2. F.Y.E.--After a free trial period, F.Y.E. (a leader in downloadable music) provides 1.2 million songs to choose from for a flat $1 per download.
3. MusicMatch--While MusicMatch does not offer a free trial period, the MusicMatch software will make personal recommendations for its users, among other services. They charge $0.99 per download.
4. MSN Music--Microsoft, another leading name in the Internet and in computers, offers one million songs that are available for $0.99 per download. Like MusicMatch, MSN does not offer a free trial period.
5. Napster--Napster, the name that started it all, is once again one of the premier outlets for music downloads, this time on a monthly membership fee basis. With around one million songs in their database, Napster offers downloads for $9.95 a month on up to three computers. Napster also offers a seven day free trial.
6. PassAlong--Relatively new to the scene, and sporting a smaller database than most download services of around 400,000 songs, PassAlong offers a nice perk in exchange. A member can earn bonus points that reduce the price of future downloads by making recommendations to their friends for certain types of music. PassAlong does not offer a free trial and starts at $0.99 per download.
7. PureTracks--Canadians benefit from WMA files from just $0.99 in Canadian dollars. Puretracks has over 1 million songs.
Today is the heyday of MP3's , we have moved far beyond a small collection of a ripped song or two grabbed from the internet to an age where most of us have hundreds or even thousands of MP3's saved in our PCs. In a matter of a few short years we have gone from popping a few music files into a folder in our documents to needing a well cataloged and easily searchable MP3 music library.
Unfortunately our collections of MP3 music files have become a bit of a mess in our PCs. Finding our favorites musics or sound clips to upload to our MP3 players or IPods' is frustrating and time consuming, and that is IF we can actually find the music we are looking for. Organizing MP3 files stored in our PCs could take days of tedious searching and sorting. Certainly this is the job for an automated MP3 file manager.
Thankfully software developers have caught up and are on top of the job of sorting this problem out by bringing us fantastic programs like MP3 Sorter to assist in the renaming and sorting of our MP3 music files. We are finally able to quickly find our desired musics or MP3 sound clips and have them right where we want them when we want them.
MP3 Sorter is a powerful MP3 renaming tool and organizer that certainly make life easy again when dealing with our MP3 files by rapidly sorting and renaming our MP3 files. MP3 Sorter finds the MP3 files stored in our PC and organizes them into a logical filing system. An example of the order of which your files will be organized and renamed for storage is “Artist/ Album+ year” or any other combination that you select from a variety of options.
MP3 Sorter does not dictate to you how your musicfiles should be cataloged; neither does it keep you guessing while the process is taking place. Before the re-arranging or renaming of our MP3 music files takes place you are able to preview the structure of the suggested order. MP3 sorter will even check for duplicate file names to avoid accidental overwriting of files. If you don't like the results simply push a button to roll back the process.
MP3 Sorter is not only good for us by giving us back our valuable time it is also great for our computers. MP3 sorter will clean up our hard drive by deleting source files that are no longer required. With MP3 Sorter MP3 organizing is certainly not a chore, why change the music selection on our MP3 players ever once in a while when we have time, now that we can change our music selection in moment on the way out the door.