Finding A Free Online Music Guide

The age of digging through CD bins at the local music store may be long gone. Our store has become much bigger and offers many more modes for listening. Do we want these songs physically on our computers, taking up hard drive space but linking to our ipods?

Do we want to stream new music online as we browse websites? Do we want music downloads from websites or from our peers? Or do we want to make play-lists of our favorite songs to post on our social networking pages? As you can see, it takes a music guide to get you through this muck of online music options.

Another great music guide resource for streaming songs is Jamendo (www.jamendo.com). This site offers the largest catalog of music under Creative Commons licenses worldwide, which means that you'll find entire albums and songs available for free.

The benefit of using this new music site is that you can download, rate, review, comment and share all the songs for free and you can even put songs on your iPhone. The downside is that you probably haven't heard of any of these artists and you'll need to have an open mind about finding new artists. Even so, using genre tags can help you discover music downloads you'll dig.

Another indie artist music guide is Amie Street (www.amiestreet.com). This recommendation website works off your preferences and allows you to import data from your iTunes library, your Last FM feed, your Pandora radio preferences and favorite music from Facebook.

After analyzing your music preferences, the site will offer similar recommendations, allowing you to rate those recommendations. The benefit is that you can find a lot of new music and buy music legally.

The downside is just that you have to buy many of the tracks, although some come as cheap as 2¢ apiece.

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