If you’re as big a fan of music as I am you love listening to music all the time. In fact, you probably have songs running through your head all day long and just love hearing new stuff and old stuff and just about anything in between. I’m the same when it comes to almost any kind of music I listen to. I just can’t get enough of it. Having said that I have done some research over the years and have found two useful sites that I’m going to mention here.
www.mmmdi.com
Music Made Me Do It (MMMDI) is a great website if you want to find lyrics to songs. Google is a great resource as well however this is a one-stop place to find lyrics in a more organised fassion. They don’t have every artist you might type in but they have a large variety and I really do like how they have their site organised in a nice and clean manner. This makes it easy to browse and find what you need fast.
www.puretracks.com
For years now the internet has been growing with popularity for multimedia. Everyone wants new music, movies, books, and so fourth. Downloading has become faster and faster and much easier to do in recent years. The bad part about this is that a lot of people took it too far by downloading content that didn’t belong to them instead of just buying the CD. Who could blame them when the price of CDs rose the way they did? iTunes made its mark back in the day as did many other big companies who made downloading music fun AND legal to do. Well, puretracks also makes its mark by allowing you to preview the beginning of most songs from CDs and buying each individual track or the entire CD which will save you a few dollars. I like puretracks because it works on any platform you are running – be it Windows, Mac or Linux. One of the other main reasons I really enjoy this site is because it has a good variety of music that I enjoy listening to. A lot of sites such as YourMusic.com allow you to pay a monthly fee and they’ll send you a “free” CD of your choice but they just don’t have a lot of the variety I like as fast as other sites do. I actually used to be with YourMusic and like them very much but I also truly enjoy downloading Vs. waiting for a CD to arrive in the mail.
Filed under: Music | Tagged: CD, Download, Google, iTunes, Legal Download, Linux, Lyrics, Mac, Music, Music Lyrics, Windows
Puretracks may not be working with Linux anymore. As of today it has consistently been sending me to the US site which then tells me is open to US residents only and I should go to the Canadian site. Puretracks customer service has so far been uphelpful, saying that “Puretracks is not compatible with WIndows NT4, Windows 98 (first edition), or any GNU/Linux variant at this time” which has always been their official line but hasn’t been true until now for me. (Running Fedora 11 and Firefox 3.5.5)
http://mp3.puretracks.com/content/viewer.aspx?cid=GlobalNav_Home is the link that will work, although I’ve had to create a new account for some reason