Best Free Services For Discovering New Songs And Music
There is no person on earth who doesn’t like music. It relieves the mind, stimulates our senses and boosts creativity. There is no doubt that though subscription music services you can have millions of new songs, but they are costly, and it’s difficult to make a good start within this chaos. So, here is how you can discover and download new music for all tastes, easily and without any cost.
- Jamendo
- Gnoosic
- Free Music Archive
- Internet Archive
- Jazz Radio
- Musopen
- Ektoplazm
- HearThis
- Orfium
- MixCloud
Jamendo
Jamendo is one of the largest independent music communities and the ideal service for those who love to discover new music from Indie artists and the indie music scene (and not only). You could say that it is a Spotify for the "poor", since though Creative Commons, it provides everything for free, whether it's full playback or unlimited downloads.
Additionally, there are no ads in new songs and albums, which is the case with free versions of popular services.
Explore all kinds of music with unlimited free downloads
The admittedly impressive service allows you to explore new music through hundreds of thousands of collections. All you have to do is login via your Google or Facebook account, or register for a new account instead.
Jamendo’s library is endless, and if you ignore the fact that it does not get involved with commercial successes and music stars, it has no reason to envy other well-known music subscription services.
While exploring music you can also make your own playlists. In addition, you can create a favorites list and share anything you want.
As we mentioned previously, all musical collections in Jamendo have a Creative Commons license, therefore they are free for download.
Jamendo is available both for Android and iOS devices. It is also available as a Windows application, but it is not as complete as the web version.
Gnoosic
If you are looking for the simplest tool to discover music, then Gnoosic is what you want.
New songs based on your taste
This is a self-adaptive online tool that learns from your musical interests and suggests new songs, by asking you what you like and what you don’t. All you have to do at first is enter your top three music bands.
Then, similar music from other bands will be displayed in a sequence, and you will be asked for your opinion on it (“I like it”, “I don’t like it”, “I don’t know”). After using the tool for a while, it will be able to introduce you to various bands that are consistent with your music taste.
The only negative thing in this case is that a stream feature is not included in the website to listen to the music you are presented with.
Free Music Archive
Its name says it all. Free Music Archive is an interactive music service from where you can discover countless new songs and collections. At the same time, you have the opportunity to download them for free, legally.
FMA was created and is maintained by music curators from all around the world. It hosts individual tracks and albums, and spreads over a wide range of musical genres.
All you need to do to use it is open a free account. Then, you can simply begin the exploration. Search results can be filtered based on a set of parameters that you define.
Unlimited downloads under the Creative Commons license
Each track or album is accompanied by the relevant Creative Commons license, along with details. You can either download entire albums or individual songs.
Internet Archive
This is one of the largest digital libraries on the web. Many people may not have heard of the Internet Archive, however the impressive non-profit service has innumerable collections, and that does not include only old music or new music, but software of all kinds as well.
Countless new songs
From the service’s various sections, you can find hundreds of thousands of tracks and albums by navigating to "Community Audio" and "Live Music Archive".
In these two sections, you will see that your options for exploring new music that is provided by this excellent service have no end. For example, Community Audio includes hundreds of thousands of files covering all kinds of music. In this plethora of old and new available songs, you can view information about track separately, along with its Creative Commons license.
Another impressive feature of the Internet Archive is that you can download for free the new music that you’ve discovered at the highest possible quality (e.g. in FLAC format).
Of course, not all collections are available in this format, but you will always have enough options for your downloads; in fact, you can even download them via torrent instead of direct download.
Jazz Radio
Jazz Radio provides to its users one of the biggest Jazz music databases. Each one of its individual collections specializes in a particular subcategory of the genre.
This high-quality website allows you to discover new songs that you probably did not know that existed by popular jazz artists, but also in smaller Bebop bands.
All Jazz music with a click
In Jazz Radio will you can also find a lot of new music from modern jazz bands. All you have to do in order to start exploring its collections is create an account. Unfortunately, users are not allowed to download the available tracks, but they can listen to them without any limitations.
Jazz Radio also provides apps for Android, iOS, Blackberry and Amazon Kindle Fire, for free.
There is no doubt that Jazz Radio will excite friends of this genre. It is the ideal means to discover countless old and new jazz songs.
Musopen
What distinguishes Musopen from other services is that it focuses on the exploration of new music and encompasses the element of education. The library's extensive library features a rich collection of music recordings as well as classical music, including works by world-renowned composers such as Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.
Musopen is certainly the best way to discover new songs that mainly revolve around classical music.
New music based on instruments
You can either navigate through its catalog, or search for something particular by defining your own filters.
Most of its available music is completely free through the Creative Commons license.
In addition, Musopen allows you to identify new music based on a musical instrument. Through this section, you can also download sheets of the recordings, as well as instructions on how to play each instrument separately.
All the new music that you discover through the service can be downloaded for free. The only limitation is that you can download up to 5 recordings per day.
Ektoplazm
This is a more specialized music service that allows you to explore new tracks that belong to the genres of Techno, Downtempo, and in particular Goa-Psytrance. Ektoplazm is undoubtedly a musical treasure for the fans of the trance music scene. The service is mainly maintained by groups of DJs and producers of psychedelic music.
Trance music portal
In essence, Ektoplazm is an inexhaustible free music portal, which features many new tracks and albums. Everything is free to download without any restrictions, through Creative Commons.
The most impressive feature of Ektoplazm is that its songs and albums can be downloaded in the lossless FLAC format.
HearThis
HearThis is reminiscent to Soundcloud, but without the commercialism that has hit this service lately. The service started operating in 2013, and is already very popular for its free services.
Non-stop Dance remixes
It has more than 1 million tracks and Tech/House remixes from DJs in the dance scene. Once you visit the service for the first time, you’ll see a stream of new songs on the home screen.
In a beautiful environment, you can instantly spot all new songs along with their remixes. At the same time you have the ability to download many (but not all) of them.
Orfium
Orfium is a relatively new name in this kind of services. It reminds Deezer and Napster quite a lot, but its creators claim to have an advantage, since they are musicians and know the music scenes much better.
In fact, searching for new music on Orfium becomes particularly interesting if you choose Sub-Categories and Moods. In these sections you will discover countless new songs depending on your mood, or depending on different occasions.
New music depending on your interests
Over time, Orfium will learn your tastes, and will constantly suggest new songs as you use it. In addition, the music service allows you to download several of the new songs that you wish to listen to.
MixCloud
MixCloud is the best-known competitor of SoundCloud. It focuses mostly on musical content that revolves around remixes and mashups. This service has brought together a significant number of DJs and producers who left SoundCloud, and is considered to be one of the best places for finding a plethora of mixes of new songs.
Of course, Mixcloud is not limited to just Techno and House music. It features music from plenty of genres, giving you the chance to explore a wide range of choices for discovering new songs.
However, you are not able to download music you find, except for a few exceptions. Nevertheless, MixCloud is a great place for new music suggestions, especially when you start following user profiles.
The service's Android and iOS apps are also available for free.
There are countless young and old artists who make their work available on the internet, and there is no doubt that music will ever stop. Free music services, as you saw, can help you start your journey of discovering new melodies and music without any cost, so what are you waiting for?
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