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by Atomsri Sukpo, Ato

Most of us have portable music players. And we spend a lot of time filling them with the most popular music we could ever find. For players with a big storage capacity, the number of MP3s to put doesn't matter as we don't really have to select which music to save. But for music players with limited drives, it is best to choose the tunes that we really like to hear. You can also do this even if you have ipods with large storage capacities so that you can get rid of those tracks that you often skipped anyway.

The next time you go online, you must have the “popular music download” plan. But how are going to accomplish this? Here are the ways.

Most music players have a built in FM receivers so you can listen to the radio if you are already tired of that same MP3s playing over and over again in your ears. The first step to downloading popular music is to hear the tracks first. Not all the newly released singles are pleasing to our ears so we have to select which ones are good enough for our auditory needs. Then take a mental note of the title of these tunes including the artist who sang it. You will need it later as keywords for your download.

Now you can start downloading. No matter which platform you are using—itunes, Kazaa, Limewire, Napster, or direct site download—you can search for the song through its title. Most likely that you will get a lot of search returns. This is where that name of the artist comes in handy. Go through the list and look for the right song and then download it.

Once you finished downloading all the tunes you need, don't just go saving them in your music player just yet. First, you must take a peek at all the contents of your music player. Plug it in a computer and view the files. Delete all unwanted songs and other unused stuff (but make sure to back it up on your PC first before deleting). For easier access, it is good to organize all your tunes. Depending on your musical preferences you can create folders for jazz, rock, alternative, RnB, hip hop, classical, instrumental, ballads and so on. Create a separate folder for your popular music downloads and name it “new hits”. This is a technique that some of us put to good use. More often than others, these are the songs that we like to hear since they are new releases—no matter which category they fall under. Plus it will save us the trouble to browse through all the music categories just to search for them.

Another good way of looking for popular music to download is to look for billboard top 100s and other radio music charts. It most likely that you'll find the most popular tunes included in those lists. Some charts even have separate charts for different music genres so it is even easier to look for songs from specific category.

Online piracy has cut into national music sales by nearly a third since 1999, sending record and film revenues into a downward spiral, which hits everyone in the industry hard, from the record store clerks, songwriters, and technicians, to the artists themselves. Sometimes referred to as P2P, file sharing applications like the original Napster are a virtual treasure trove of music, movies, and software. If you use P2P software to download music, movies, or software, you may also be sharing those files to others.

Increasingly frustrated by the rise of illegal downloading, the music and film industries have been making examples of individual file-swappers. During the past year, the music and film industries have been bombarding colleges and universities with notices of illegal downloads of music and movie files by students. Recently, the music industry filed suit against four college students across the country, seeking billions of dollars in damages.

Despite all these lawsuits targeting campus pirates, more than half of all college students still download music and movies illegally, according to the University of Richmond's Intellectual Property Institute. The music industry is fighting a losing battle to stop this downloading; they should realize that it is impossible to stop the downloading of music, it will only grow. Trying to stop it is a dead end street, it is much better to use the Internet.

Many musicians, artists, and software developers are changing the way they do business and are providing their works on the Internet for free. Maybe this is the way it should be. Musicians could make their money with performing, they could use the Internet to promote their music, and so they can charge more for their concerts. In the future they could even use the Internet to broadcast their live shows and in this way make more from a single concert. Then they still have a lot of other money making opportunities, for example commercials. A lot of musicians make a lot of money this way.

What ever the future brings, no one knows, but it is pretty sure that downloading of music for free from the Internet is here to stay, and the musician of today will be better of if they understand this and use it to their advantage.

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