Downloading free music is a popular pastime thanks to the advantages such as user-friendliness and cost-effectiveness. As the popularity of the iPod is going infectious there is high demand from music lovers for liberal downloads for iPod centric free music. As a result, too many sources of online music have opened up. As a panacea to unbridled downloading that infringes copyrights and invites legal problems, now there many websites offering free as well as controlled free music downloads for ipods. One such website is MyiPodownloads. Unlike free download websites, here the big difference is MyiPodownloads takes only a one time payment for membership. As a term, music download is defined as the “transfer of music from a website to a user’s computer”. There are both legal as well paid downloads of copyrighted music.
Now the good news is that piracy is ending in music downloads. Many online music stores sell digital singles and albums including the iTunes Store, Amazon MP3, fairsharemusic, eMusic, Google Play, Kazaa, Nokia Music Store, Tune App, TuneTribe, and the Zune Marketplace are offering great relief iPod owners.
Every week, iTunes offers 3 free songs to the users-- single of the week, download, and a Latin single. Hitting that section of iTunes store every week will get 3 free songs each week. By signing up for e-Music one can get free MP3 downloads; AmazonMP3 offers a free song of the day, every day, from its home Page.
Quite often paid downloads come encoded with Digital Rights Management that restrict the copying of music or playing purchased songs on digital audio players. When compressed by a glossy CODEC (usually MPEG-1 Layer 3, Windows Media, or AAC) the file size gets reduced and makes new demands on the bandwidth requirements.
