Free Digital Music

Free Music!!!!
The iTunes Music Store sends out a weekly email called New Music Tuesdays that gets sent on, you guessed it, Tuesdays. While the main purpose of this email is to advertise new music that the iTunes Music Store has added to its catalog, a free song is offered every week, no strings attached. This is a great way to sample music that you might not normally listen to. These are full-length recordings, fine quality, and interesting choices. Here is the link to sign up for the mailing list: http://mynews.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Subscriptions.woa?locale=en_US&pagename=subscribe&subcode=all

More Free Music!!!
Alexander Street Press is a publisher of scholarly databases for the arts and humanities. Yes, I know, yawn.
But here is the cool part. If you subscribe to their email alerts, they will send you a link for a free music download once every two weeks or so. I’ve been doing it, and the quality of the music is terrific. Here is the link:
http://www.alexanderstreet.com/musicdownloademailregistration.htm

National Geographic World Music
National Geographic devotes a portion of its website to World Music. This site has editors' picks, videos, full length clips and samples of music (primarily pop music) from all over the world. It also has a free download of the week. This is very much worth checking out. http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/home.

Software to Check Out

My current favorite low-cost software is called TubeSock. TubeSock is available for both Macs and PCs. It converts videos from YouTube into formats you can view on your iPod and in iTunes. It works great. Cost is $15, available at http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock/.