Download or capture streaming music ( free music )

Today is all about free music two tools were brought to my attention today that make it really easy to download or capture streaming music from Pandora, Seeqpod, Last.Fm, or even a random website that has music in the background.

TechCrunch profiled today a seemingly great new tool called Freemusiczilla that lets you download "download free music from Imeem, Last.fm, Pandora, Myspace, eSnips, Mog, iJigg, Radio.blog.club and almost all social music services" with just the touch of a button. Free music is limited to 10 songs per day, but presumably this will be unlocked with a paid version in the near future.

My friend Dave pointed me to Freecorder today, which enables you to record via a browser toolbar any sound that plays through your pc speakers - i'm not sure of the technology behind it, but he said all sounds are aggregated, so if you receive an IM during a song playing that you're recording, the IM sound will be pulled in. He said it works great, though, and he's using it to record website soundtracks.
I haven't used either of these yet so let me know how they work, and if they live up to their reviews (and please use legally, however that may be).

Seeqpod looks like a really good free music search engine

Seeqpod is a music search engine that scours the web for mp3's hosted by various sites, embedded in articles, linked to in blogs, etc.  It's at its at its core a vertical search engine for the web, purely focused on music.   Built around the search engine, though, is a fully functioning media center - you can play the mp3's, make playlists, save files, and more.  And if you follow the URL's, you can download the mp3's direct from the sources.  In a few random search tests, I found all of the songs I was looking for - this one seems like a great resource for free music mp3 files on the web!

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RIAA sues AllofMP3 for $1.65 Trillion Dollars

For those of you following the fight between the RIAA in the U.S. and abroad for music copyright infringement, Gizmodo this morning has a note covering off on AllofMP3, which sells non-DRM US music tracks for less than $0.20 a pop. U.S. credit card companies have already stopped supporting the site, and Russia has agreed to put a stop to AllofMP3's infringement, but since nothing has really happened, the RIAA has formally filed suit, claiming $1.65 trillion dollars in infringement.



Gizmodo: "Bloodsucking record labels and their lapdog the RIAA have filed suit in New York federal court against Russian music downloading site Allof MP3.com, seeking $1.65 trillion. That's $150,000 for each song that was downloaded from the site between June and October of last year. The undaunted AllofMP3.com responds, pretty much saying, "Tough shit, you're filing a suit in New York and we're in Russia. Nya nya nya nya nya nya." Meanwhile, the site is still up and running, gleefully noting that iTunes revenues have decreased by 65% and wishing all a Happy New Year. Beatles songs, DRM-free, for $.17 each? Sounds like a good deal."



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