Nearly every song is now available on the Internet: absolutely legal and often free of charge. We reveal how to track your favorite titles without visiting dubious exchanges, save them to the hard drive, and then enjoy them at home and on the road.
Listen to the favorite song: legal and free of charge
The record companies have learned to live with the Internet. Despite the growing number of free offers, their sales are growing. The main reason is the increase in digital sales. This development allows music to be as cheap and convenient as never before: on the computer, the music system, the smartphone - whether at home or on the road. To pay for album downloads at Amazon, Google Play Music or Musicload is just one of many options. There, songs are offered for an average of 0.70 to 1.30 euros, the album often for 10 to 12 euros.
Recording produces sense
This way, the music lands in seconds on the smartphone, tablet or computer, while the visit of a disk store was necessary. The sound quality can more than match with that of audio CDs. If you're looking for the best possible sound, you'll find songs with 24 bits and a sampling frequency of 192 kHz on portals like highresaudio.com, hdtracks.de or 7digital.de, sometimes even more. As a reminder, an audio CD uses 16 bits at 44.1 kHz. It is more difficult to download music on the legal path.
An endless musical archive
There are countless offers such as Soundcloud, mp3.com, jamendo.com or tonspion.de. But there exactly the desired song to find, is rather unlikely. Here newcomers or more unknown songs of great artists are usually found. If you want to discover new music, this is the right place.
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One or the other still uses illegal sources. A Google search often leads to the download link or the torrent file. However, until an album is finally downloaded, you have to click through a sea of ads. Partial registration is necessary. Say, you have to bring some patience. The Usenet is more comfortable. However, Usenet Provider costs may be incurred.
Why at all, so much effort and the risk of warning when you have legal possibilities to get no or little money to music?
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Streaming services meet almost every song wish for a few Euros a month. Some of them are free of charge. Spotify and Deezer offer in their free version access to a song archive with over 30 million titles. In contrast to the payment variant, however, the listener has to live with advertising breaks and can only use the services on the computer or smartphone online
Just as free are the streams of radio stations. The websites TuneIn.com and radio.de allow especially convenient access to stations from all over the world. Through them the user can limit the search to countries or genres, thus finding the right channel for their own taste. Individual playlists are available at Last.fm. Simply enter the desired band, and the online service plays music from this and similar artists. If you want to listen to songs for free, you will also find it on video portals, especially on YouTube.
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It can happen, however, that a song for copyright reasons is not available in the United States. With a little trick the country barrier can be bypassed. Most convenient is to install a plug-in in the browser that obscures the whereabouts of a proxy server. For Firefox, there is the ProxTube add-on for Chrome ProxFlow. In Auto mode, both plug-ins are automatically activated when they discover a locked video. You can find more information in the Lesetipp.
On a smartphone or tablet are offered VPN services, which arrive by app on the mobile devices. The client connects to servers abroad. This deceives a location outside the United States and unlocks the videos. The Tunnelbear VPN service, for example, is free of charge up to a monthly data volume of 500 MByte. The obfuscation of the IP address also helps to access foreign online TV offers: for example, all the contents of the BBC. Additional song material is available at Web TV stations such as Ampya or tape.tv
Why save a song as a file when it is available as a web stream? For example, to transfer it to your smartphone, tablet, or external storage as you like. Or play the piece on the music system, the TV or the autoradio. And if a CD is requested, the songs can be burned. Above all, one is independent of the Internet. This does not apply to web streams. Only the payment versions of music flatrates like Spotify offer a download option on devices with installed software. When the streaming subscription expires, the ability to play the downloaded songs ends. By installing a tool, the streamed songs end up on the hard disk. Software such as the free Free Audio Recorder records the sound that leaves the computer through the audio outputs.
To save the soundtrack of a YouTube video, there is a simpler way: at convert2mp3.net you enter the URL of the YouTube clip, and the web page provides the extracted audio signal for download. This works even with videos blocked in the United States. The free computer software Audials Light offers everything in one: extracting the audio track from videos as well as the recording of music streams. In Audials One for 50 euros, the user can even specify which song the software should record. If a web radio station plays the title, Audials will automatically start the recording.
On the other hand, web music streaming opens up more possibilities. The streams can even be reproduced with audio systems, for instance from 40 Euro with media players like Google Chromecast Audio. Likewise, the smartphone can be used as a streamer and coupled with Bluetooth radio or audio cable with the system. No matter what version you choose, with a link to the web, you are able to access an almost endless music archive from anywhere - to a much bigger one than you could ever have on your hard drive.
Downloading music, bypassing country locks, or recording streams - that's what the legislator
allows
The recording of web radio stations or music streaming services via the PC is permitted. "However, this can change at any time", notes lawyer Jörg Küpperfahrenberg from Essen. According to the overwhelming opinion of jurists just as legally: circumventing the country barrier on YouTube. It looks different in the case of obviously illegal Internet sources. When streaming such portals the legal situation is unclear. For it was not finally clarified, whether the Caching of Streams is already a duplication. However, serious consequences are not to be feared. Clearly illegal is, however, the downloading of music from obviously illegal sources. According to Küpperfahrenberg, the Chinese portal music.163.com, which offers songs of well-known artists for free, is also available for download.
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