I'm not sure if the majority of you all have heard of it before and I only saw a couple posts on it in the forums (albiet pretty old ones), but www.spiralfrog.com has finally launched and out of beta.
They offer completely free music that you can download from their site. They don't have a huge collection of songs yet, but they have a fairly decent selection so far and they are hoping to expand it a lot in the coming months.
Now I've seen free music sites before and they have generally had pretty cruddy music, like majority of stuff i never heard before, but spiralfrogs different. This music is paid for by advertising they have on the site, and it's not really even that bad. I only noticed a regular banner near thr top of the page and a square sized ad on the right side.
Now there are a few drawbacks so far;
1) The music supposedly only works for 30 days if you do not visit their site regularly. Meaning you will have to visit the site at least once a month to keep your songs playable.
2) The tracks are protected wma files that are supposedly unable to be burnt to CDs. (i haven't tried personally)
3) The music is not compatible with IPODs (i also have not tried to load any to my ipod yet)
4) Seems that most albums they have listed have 1 or more tracks missing.
5) And lastly, it seems since it's new there's a large influx of users and the server isn't completely stable.
Hope you guys like it and i hope it lasts, it seems pretty cool so far.
They offer completely free music that you can download from their site. They don't have a huge collection of songs yet, but they have a fairly decent selection so far and they are hoping to expand it a lot in the coming months.
Now I've seen free music sites before and they have generally had pretty cruddy music, like majority of stuff i never heard before, but spiralfrogs different. This music is paid for by advertising they have on the site, and it's not really even that bad. I only noticed a regular banner near thr top of the page and a square sized ad on the right side.
Now there are a few drawbacks so far;
1) The music supposedly only works for 30 days if you do not visit their site regularly. Meaning you will have to visit the site at least once a month to keep your songs playable.
2) The tracks are protected wma files that are supposedly unable to be burnt to CDs. (i haven't tried personally)
3) The music is not compatible with IPODs (i also have not tried to load any to my ipod yet)
4) Seems that most albums they have listed have 1 or more tracks missing.
5) And lastly, it seems since it's new there's a large influx of users and the server isn't completely stable.
Hope you guys like it and i hope it lasts, it seems pretty cool so far.
(in a way that propably is illegal though, so you'll have to check if it is first).
