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If you want free mp3 music files for your mp3 player or your iPod, but you do not wish to do anything illegal, there are certainly some other alternatives apart simply waiting for iTunes to release their weekly free mp3 song. You do not have to ignore copyright and start using P2P file sharing networks. There is actually a lot of free music on the internet which you can take. You simply have to know where you can look for it.

Creative Commons songs which are licensed is one excellent source of legal and free music. Many new artists make their songs available for free downloading in the hope of getting some new fans. You don’t have to worry about going through tons of horrible music to get to the good songs. There are other music enthusiasts like you who go through the various songs and post reviews on blogs or music podcasts along with the mp3 file of the song they are reviewing. You can listen to the song and also read the review or an interview with the artist on these websites.

There is a lot of good music on the internet which you can listen to and you can come across great new artists all the time. Facebook and MySpace are also good places to look for new bands and artists. Many music artists have MySpace pages with an audio player so that you can listen to their music on the net and then you can go to their official website to find out if they also make their music available for free download so that you can listen to them on your iPod.

Are you wondering how this works out for you? Well, in a few words, Creative Commons is a substitute for the usual copyright formulation of ‘All Rights Reserved’. Artists might decide to release their songs with ‘Some Rights Reserved’. There are many licensing options to choose from and Creative Commons strikes a compromise between ‘All Rights Reserved’, where all artistic output is governed by bureaucracy, financial arrangements and negotiations to decide how someone else may make use of it, and ‘Public Domain’, where there are no rights and the object is freely available to all.

There are several music podcasts which use Creative Commons licensed music to bring some of the newest kind of music to listeners and they also make it easier to find good music to listen to if you have some other person doing the sifting for you. You have to remember that the big names in music today also started out unknown. You can start listening to the new music you find in Creative Commons, and you may be the one to discover the next big hit!