Today, we have more and more internet users who prefer to listen to their favorite music online. This is because most of them have tried to download MP3 songs online and found it a frustrating venture. However, in this article, we have sampled top 10 free music download sites. With these sites, you won’t have to worry about viruses and no risks of coming across illegal copies.
Spotify
Spotify is a site that provides lots of free music downloads from a range of different artists. This site gives freedom to not only listen to albums but also create your own playlists. The site also features a long list of emerging artists, with all of them offering free MP3s of their latest tracks.
With Spotify, you can search by top artists, mood, featured songs, newest albums, and lots of genre breakdowns. Better still, Spotify has multiple language support. Spotify also provide an app to enjoy your music for free. Check how to download and sign up for the Spotify app.
How to Download Spotify Songs
To download Spotify songs, you need to purchase Spotify Premium ($0.99 for first 3 months & $9.99/month later & you can cancel it anytime you want). You can’t download songs individually. Spotify only allows you to download an entire album or a playlist. You can add the tracks you want to download to a playlist before downloading them. Luckily, you can download each episode of Spotify podcasts separately.
Download Spotify Songs on Your Phones and Tablets:
- Connect to WiFi because Spotify can’t download songs over cellular data.
- Open Spotify.
- Tap “Your Library” & then “Playlists”.
- Select the playlist you want to download.
- Tap the grey “Download” switch and when it turns to green, the songs are being downloaded to Spotify mobile app.
- A down arrow will appear on the left/right of the song when it is downloaded successfully. Now you can tap the song to play it offline.
The music downloaded are protected by DRM and you can’t export them to MP3 format or others, which means you can save them to your computer or flash drives. They are exclusively usable in Spotify apps.
Download Spotify Songs to Your Computer:
To download Spotify songs on your computer, you need to use some third-party applications on your computer. Check the best Spotify downloader software. Some of them can save you the money from Spotify subscription, but you need to know that downloading Spotify with downloader software may be illegal.
Amazon Music
Surprised! Amazon Music offers a free music downloads and has a free music download section that is constantly being updated.
Amazon’s selection is actually pretty amazing and features newer releases from a lot of big-name artists. This well-known database features big names like Chance the Rapper, Foo Fighters, Carole King and many others. On Amazon, you can listen to the songs before download. The reason why they are doing this is to have you try out their more involved music streaming service, which is undeniably a pretty good streaming service if you’re looking to upgrade.
Here is how to use Amazon Music App to find & listen to music for free.
How to Download Amazon Music Songs
To download Amazon Music songs to your phones and tablets
- Open Amazon Music app.
- Find the songs/albums/playlists you want to download.
- Tap “More Options”, which is a 3-vertical-dot icon.
- Tap “Download” in the menu.
- A “crossmark” icon on the right of the track will turn into a “checkmark” when it is downloaded successfully.
- For iOS users, tap “My Music” to find the downloaded music & turn on “Offline Music Mode” to find the downloaded tracks; for Android users, choose “My Music” and tap on “Online Music” toggle to switch to “Offline Music”.
Unlike Spotify, Amazon Music allows you to download each track individually. You just play the track, tap “More Options” on the top right, and tap “Download”.
The downloaded Amazon Music songs are DRM-protected & can only be accessed by the Amazon Music app. You can’t export them for use on other apps and devices, burn them to CD, or copy them onto other storage devices.
SoundClick
SoundClick offers free downloads from tons of artist websites. That includes unsigned, signed, independent, and anything and everything in-between. SoundClick is a site for any artist looking to download MP3 songs for free.
SoundClick is an easy-to-use site. You can search for your music by artist, genre, or by chart. After you’ve searched, you can sample as much as you want, and download whatever you want. In addition, there is a radio option that lets you listen to music while multitasking on other things. The only thing that you need to be on the watch out for is that SoundClick has a mix of paid and free content. This is due to the fact that some artists prefer to charge for their music downloads while some others are willing to give it away for free. That’s their choice. However, you can sample whatever you choose.
How to Download SoundClick Music & Beats
SoundClick had a makeover later to change its policy and service. But before that, all users can save the songs that its uploader didn’t put up available for download. Currently, you are only allowed to stream the songs on the webpages instead of saving them in the way as before.
Now you can use HiDownload or Firefox add-on, DownloadHelper to download SoundClick songs and beats you are playing. Meanwhile, if you can’t use any of them, you can always use a free audio recorder (Mac) to capture the music while it’s being played.
Jamendo
Jamendo Music has been in the game of offering free music downloads for quite some time now. All of their music downloads are completely free and protected by Creative Commons licenses, which means that the song creators don’t mind if you download their music for personal enjoyment, so you don’t have to worry a tad bit that you’re ripping off the artists by downloading. Jamendo features independent music only so if you’re looking for Drake or Beyoncé, you’ll probably have to go elsewhere.
Generally, Jamendo is geared towards the music explorer. What’s more, they have free radio stations and playlists with constant update. Once you’ve got your collection of free music, you can easily access them offline on your Android, iOS or other devices.
How to Download Jamendo Music for Free
Jamendo hosts more than 300,000 tracks, all free & legal to listen to and download. Additionally, many new artists will publish their pieces or work, making an unlimited and growing download source of quality music. Let’s find out how to download Jamendo music for free.
- Go to Jamendo homapage. Click the “Start” button on the left.
- Click “Log In” on the top right and then “Create an account” at the bottom. You can also log in with your Facebook or Google account.
- Add the music you want to download to your playlist and click the down arrow icon on the right of the track to download it directly.
All music is available in MP3 and you can directly download them. You are also allowed to download OGG format files from peers by using BitTorrent.
Audiomack
Whether you’re an artist, fan or tastemaker or label, Audiomack is a good platform that you can use to discover and share free music. “We’re here to move the music forward”, this is the slogan that they live by and they for sure did a good job with this site. Audiomack boasts unlimited music storage and you can download MP3 songs with over 6 million subscribers. Likewise, music on this site is well organized with trending music ranked in real-time, as such, you can always find the most popular Hip Hop, Electronic and reggae music of today. This is one reason why it’s a popular site among young people. Furthermore, Audiomack is available both on iOS and Android so you’re able to enjoy your music on the go across the platforms.
How to Download Audiomack Songs
Audiomack is a great place to stream songs and you could download songs via its app on your phones and tablets. Just check these two video tutorials.
Download Audiomack Songs on iOS Devices
Download Audiomack Songs on Android Devices
If you don’t know how to get started with Audiomack, check this blog.
Download Audiomack Songs on Your Computer
There are also tools to download Audiomack Songs. TubeNinja is an easy way.
1. Go to Audiomack homepage. Choose the song you want to download and go to its page by clicking the name of the track.
2. Copy the URL of the track you want to download.
3. Visit TubeNinja. Paste the URL of Audiomack you copied to the URL bar in the middle of TubeNinja homepage & click “Download” button.
4. TubeNinja will analyze the URL to get you the real download address. Now you can download the MP3 by clicking the down arrow icon on the right.
There are also other similar sites that can download Audiomack music, e.g., Savieo.
If you don’t mind installing free software, an Audiomack downloader can help a lot.
SoundCloud
SoundCloud provides a good place for music producers and consumers to get together and experience something special. The embedded player shows you how many plays each song has. Who doesn’t want to know how many listeners are listening to their music? Despite being a streaming site, we have a lot of artists who allow you to download MP3 songs for free as well, once you get the song of your choice, just check the download option if the artist has enabled it. On the brighter side, there are many new bands and singers that you’ll for sure find something to your liking. Also, there are great remixes on famous tracks that you’ll never hear elsewhere.
It is worth mentioning that bigger artists only allow streaming. In fact, most, if not all major label artists are prohibited from offering free downloads, in relation to their contracts. This has led the emergence of SoundCloud downloaders to try and find a way around this limitation, though SoundCloud does not in any way authorize those apps.
How to Download SoundCloud Songs
SoundCloud provides an easy way to download songs without using any third-party tools or websites. You are allowed to download SoundCloud songs as long as you register and log in to your SoundCloud account.
- Register SoundCloud account and log in.
- After login, choose that track you want to download and go to its page.
- Click the “Download” button below the waveform player.
You are allowed to download individual tracks only, but not whole playlists. Some of the tracks are not downloadable because the uploaders does not allow you to download them.
However, if you prefer to use third-party tool or sites to download SoundCloud songs, there are plenty of them out their. Just check the tutorial videos.
How To Download SoundCloud Music On iPhone
How to Download SoundCloud Music on Android
How To Download SoundCloud Song Onto Your Mac
How To Download SoundCloud Song Onto Your PC
Mp3juice.cc (Alternative – Jango Music)
This was once known as MP3juices before being shut down by the London Police in 2014. The site has re-emerged at MP3juices.cc as a streaming-to-download site, which includes YouTube conversion. All you have to do is run a search for whatever tracks you want and it will convert it into a free music download for you. MP3juice.cc also comes with an MP3 cutter that you can use to trim unwanted parts on the intro on downloads. However, be careful when using YouTube-to-MP3 sites as the industry is clamping down hardcore on many of these sites owing to the fact that converting video into a free music download violates copyright.
Here we provide you with an excellent online music website as a substitute – Jango. Jango is an online music radio websites, which provides hundreds of genre stations and allows you to create your own station. You can search for the station you like to stream.
How to Download Jango Music
How to Download Jango Music to iPhone
You can’t easily separate songs in a radio station but instead, you can record them separately. Check this tutorial of how to record internet audio.
MP3 Hunter
MP3 Music Download Hunter is a relatively latest introduction to the Android App space and its website is MP3 Hunter. Nevertheless, it is proving to be a solid option for free music downloads. The site hosts a wide range of music collections and has one of a kind search engine. With this site, you can download almost every music you want. It is remarkable that they still keep looking at the best free music resources while scraping off the low-quality resource. If by any chance you’re planning to use the songs for commercial purposes then you should check with the copyright owner. Otherwise, most of these MP3 songs should just be for personal use, just spread the good vibe and give these artists a chance to grow.
MP3 Music Download Hunter is available through the Google Play and has a modest rating of 3.3, which seems to be a little bit low. This is because most users usually expect major label content. Honestly, you can’t find artists like Nicki Minaj, Trey Songz or Taylor Swift, since MP3 doesn’t offer any content from such artists.
Other than scouring millions of copyright-free songs for download, MP3 Music Download Hunter helps you organize your music. This includes organization and storage for offline listening on your mobile or any other MP3 player, and this is great for anyone worried about cellular bandwidth charges.
How to Download Songs from MP3 Hunter
Download Songs from MP3 Hunter on Your PC
1. Visit the MP3 Hunter homepage.
2. Enter the name of the song you want in the search bar and click “Search”
3. You can click “Play” to play the song on YouTube. To download the music, just click “Download” and wait until the preparing process is done.
4. When the file is ready, you will see 2 buttons. If you want to download an MP3 file, click “Download”; to download the video, click “Convert Video”.
How to Download MP3 Hunter Music on Android
Spinrilla
If you’re a hip-hop mixtape enthusiast, you might want to check out Spinrilla. Basically, this site taps into a treasure trove of mixtapes from established sites like Datpiff, after which reassembles them into a single interface. Spinrilla is both a site and an application. Spinrilla has more than 5 million downloads on Google Play, with ratings of 4.3 stars, no wonder they call themselves ‘800-lb gorilla of free hip-hop mixtapes’. Just to clear the air, Spinrilla is not affiliated with Datpiff, LiveMixtapes or MyMixtapez, though it taps heavily from these mixtape hubs.
How to Download Spinrilla Songs
How to Download Music from Spinrilla to iPhone & Mac
How to Download Music from Spinrilla to Android Devices
My Mixtapez
My Mixtapez is known for a great music collection. Just like Spinrilla, My Mixtapez Music is all about hip-hop mixtapes. However, there are a few differences that hip-hop diehards will want to weigh.
My Mixtapez Music offers lots of different mixtapes from endless rappers and DJs. What’s more, this app offers you the option to download MP3 songs for offline listening. Unlike Spinrilla, My Mixtapez differs in the selection, organization, and selected artists. My Mixtapez also puts a spotlight on Indie artists as well as emerging rappers.
There were rumors doing rounds that My Mixtapez Music was getting sued (but this is an unstable situation). Right now, the site hasn’t been deemed illegal, but you should be prepared for a rude shutdown, because this is how it goes sometimes.
In conclusion, it is definitely worth trying out a few of the aforementioned options before settling for one. Whichever site you choose, we just ask that you respect the copyrighted content and pay for the stuff that isn’t royalty-free. Last but not least, if you come across a free MP3 music download site or app that did not make the list, don’t hesitate to let us know and we will for sure check it out.
How to Download My Mixtapez Songs on PC
1. Visit My Mixtapez homepage.
2. Register and sign in to your My Mixtapez account (or you can log in with your Google account).
3. Enter the name of the song you want in the search bar on the top & a few of the results will be shown. Click “See More” under “Tracks” if the song you want is not listed. There are also other categories of results like radio stations, albums, artists and videos.
4. When you find your song, click the “Play” triangle button to play it.
5. Click the “…” button in the player at the bottom and then click “Download Song” to download it.
6. Wait until the download is finished.
How to Download My Mixtapez Songs on Android