Although the following is a sponsored review, as always I strive to provide an honest opinion of the product reviewed.
I’ve reviewed some sites in the past that allow you to search for all kinds of things, but what if you’re just looking to download mp3s? There’s a site for that, too, and it’s called MP3-2000.com.
Download Music For Free
The site works in a few ways. If you’re looking for free music downloads or just wanting to purchase tracks, you can browse music by the most popular downloads, newest added, or most recently searched. If you know the artist or song, you can click on a letter of the alphabet at the top of the screen to browse for it or you can search for it by name using the search box. I performed several searches with mixed results, starting with a few local bands. Having no luck with the local bands, I moved on to some just barely more known music like Bigod 20, which surprised me with a few results.
Once you’ve found the track you’re searching for, a few options are presented within a couple tabs. In the second tab, you can obtain a link to share the track’s page with others. In the first tab, you can play the song right in the page or download it right from the source. In addition, there are links to purchase the track or turn it into a ringtone and if there’s more tracks from the same artist, they’ll be listed below. As well as all the links, an area for comments is provided and even lyrics if they’re available.
Buy Music Cheap
For those wanting to purchase the music they find, a couple options exist. The first is the ability to buy the song or album from mp3sales.ru. I did a little searching on the safety recommendations for mp3sales.ru and didn’t find anything alarming. Curious, I also checked their Legal Info page to see how they’re handling licensing. It looks like they are fine according to Russian laws. You may have to check your local copyright laws if you’re outside of Russia, though. mp3sales.ru offered the Bigod 20 tracks at €0.10 per track or €0.80 for the whole album, which is great compared to the $0.99 I normally pay per track elsewhere. Some browsing around gave me the impression that this pricing was pretty standard for most of the music selling on that site.
The ringtone link took me to a page offering up to 15 ringtones per month, but it was at a cost of $9.99/month. I’d didn’t sign up to get a hands-on experience with it, but if you have, let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
Conclusions
MP3-2000.com is probably the easiest site to download music for free, with advanced searching, related tracks, and instant downloads in most cases. Functionally, my only complaint would be the suggestions of other music I might like because it was way off. If you’re concerned about the legality, you’ll want to remember that you’re bound to the laws in your own jurisdiction, so do your research.
7 Photography Projects – I love my DSLR camera, but between a lack of time and some lack of creativity, I don’t find myself shooting many fun photos. This guid has lots of ideas to get the creative juices going and I can’t wait.
Millennium Falcon papercraft – Wanna make a Millennium Falcon out of paper? You know you do. Here’s the templates and instructions.
100 Greatest Hits of YouTube – Someone compiled the 100 greatest hits of YouTube in a 4 minute video. I think it’s missing a few, but still a good watch.
Google SideWiki – Google’s new SideWiki makes it posttible to share your input on any page online with the plugin.
The EV Project – “The ultimate goal of The EV Project is to take the lessons learned from the deployment of these first 4,700 EVs, and the charging infrastructure supporting them, to enable the streamlined deployment of the next 5,000,000 EVs.” Sounds like a pretty cool project withe the Nissan Leaf and it looks like Phoenix will be the first pin on the map.
Star Wars Uncut – These guys are crowdsourcing a remake of the classic Star Wars. It’ll either be really good or really bad, but either way, I’m guessing you don’t want to miss it.
Xtranormal – If you can type, you can make a movie? Sure. I made a test movie in about 2 minutes. Pretty cool. If you make a movie, post a link in the comments.
Ping! for the iPhone – Blackberry has their BB-to-BB messaging and now we have Ping! for iPhone-to-iPhone messaging. I’m joe.tech, so Ping! me.
Wireless Electricity – It’s been talked about before, but now it’s becoming a reality. Some day, I’ll just set my phone down and it’ll charge untethered.
Bokeh bar codes – Mix Bokeh photography principles with bar code design and you get a super tiny bar code. Try to find that one when using the self-checkout machine.
Who looks like you? – Coke Zero came up with this Facial Profiler project as a unique marketing campaign. I submitted photos. I’m a little anxious and a little scared.
Stormtroopers 365 – Ever wonder what a Stormtrooper does on his days off? Here’s all the photo evidence.
Tron test footage – If you’re excited about the Tron remake like I am, you’ll enjoy this sneak peek.
No more Bookmark Fridays? That’s right. I’ve come to realize that with my unpredictable schedule, it’s just not realistic to plan for a bookmarks post every Friday. I still want to provide bookmarks every week, however, so welcome to the first of many Weekly Bookmarks posts. Each week (usually on the weekend or Monday morning), I’ll post a list of some of my favorite links for the week just like I did with Bookmark Fridays.
I’ve also decided to stop linking to twitter accounts (at least for now). Only the same two or three people ever request the link and while they’re good people to follow, linking to them every week provides no real benefit to anyone.
With all that out of the way, let’s have some bookmarks:
AT&T MSS is early! – Well that’s what people are reporting, anyway, but not me. I just upgraded to 3.1 and no MMS still.
Get more web traffic – 21 untapped traffic sources is a pretty good list of ways to get more traffic to your wite, blog, youtube videos, etc.
Seeduino Mega – One of my employees, Jared, just bought one of these. It’s like the famed Arduino open-source electronics prototyping platform, but “much better” according to the employee. He said he suggested Seeduino send me one to play with. I wonder if they will.
Liquidware – This was also pointed out to me by Jared. These boards can connect to each other and when one gets new software loaded onto it, any others connected to it will find and download the same software until the whole colony of them are updated. Watch the first video on the site.
People of Walmart – I know. It’s bad, but sometimes you just have to laugh at silly people.
Your world of text – Just click and type. It’s a blank slate anyone can come in and add to or edit.
TowerGeeks – More stuff I want to buy and play with. I love the towers that you can just slide boards into.
Searchslate – What a great idea. I should have done that. In fact… (to be continued)
It’s Sunday, but it’s still not too late to get in some bookmarks before the weekend is over. As always, if you want a link to your Twitter account, just follow me on Twitter and tweet the following:
@joetech I want a free link in your Bookmark Friday post : http://www.joetech.com/suggests/bmftw
The Underground Motel – In Australia, there’s an underground city called Coober Pedy and you can stay there in this underground motel. It looks pretty cool.
Mars fly-by – We keep getting better and better photos of the surface of mars. Some of these are just incredible.
Bob McFerrin Hacks Your Brain – Not as amazing as it sounds, but this video shows how easy it is to manipulate and train the mind.
RoyalTutorial – One of my advertisers, Zac Johnson launched a new blog to provide Photoshop tutorials and it looks great!
i-Swarm – Tiny robots that interact with each other and light? Truly awesome.
Trade Wars Lives! – In the 80′s, before we were all able to play on the Internet, we played on Bulletin Board Systems and on these systems, there was a game called Trade Wars. It was a great game and I had it installed on my own BBS. It seems it’s still alive and kicking on the internet. Geek nostalgia for the win.
TED Talk : Wireless Electricity – I love some of the TED Talks and I’m thrilled about the concept of wireless electricity, so I was happy to find this.
