(I know you were probably going to skim through it anyway, but it feels good to tell you that you can.)
Introduction
There are hundreds of thousands of searches every month on Google about buying music online. Why are people looking for alternative ways to get music online?
Purchasing music online can be extremely easy. You can go to the online store, sign up, enter your credit card information, and download whatever music you want, all without having to leave your home or buy CDs.
Another appeal to get music online is the flexibility. Instead of having to buy a whole album, you can choose to only get your favorite songs.
So what are the disadvantages of buying music online?
Well, the most popular music store is Itunes. Itunes charges $1.29 USD per track. When you want to download all the songs you want, $1.29 per track adds up very quickly. Other online stores offer $0.99 USD per track, which is an improvement but still isn't much better.
That's why so many people are looking for alternative places to buy music online. If you'd like to know where to get music online the best way, keep reading. But first let's talk about why you should be careful when looking to get music online.
Why To Be Careful
There are many places on the internet where you can download music. Some of these places allow you to download music for free. Although many people think it's harmless, if you can download any music for free without the artist's consent, it is illegal.
Some sites consider themselves to be legal because they don't host any of the music files on their server. However, they may have links to songs on other websites that you can download for free, but it is still illegal.
So what do you do if you want to get music online, but the normal song prices are out of your price range, and downloading music for free is illegal?
You go to a website where you can buy music online for $0.10 USD per song, or less.
Where is the best place to get music online?
Where is the best place to get music online?
A website like mp3milion.com
Mp3million
Mp3million is an online store where you can get music for super cheap prices. I've been using it for awhile now and have never had an issue. Let me tell you the advantages and disadvantages of Mp3million.
Advantages-
- Every song costs $0.10 USD regardless of it's length or how new it is.
- Mp3million has one of the largest collections of music.
- You can pay with Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, or PayPal.
- There are no hidden or monthly fees.
- Sign up is quick and easy and only requires an email address.
- You can hear a 1 minute preview of each song before you buy it. (Which is in lower quality then the actual song you download for security reasons.)
- Mp3million guarantees that no personal information will be disclosed to third parties without your written permission.
- Probably one of the coolest things about Mp3million, during frequent bonus seasons, if you add $30.00 USD to your account, they'll give you an additional $15.00 USD to spend on music. If you add $50, they'll give you $35, and if you add $100 they'll give you $100. If that's not the coolest thing ever, you're crazy.
- They offer an automatic 20% discount when you buy the whole album, no matter what.
- Once purchased, you can download the songs over and over again to any device.
- They have good customer service.
- If they don't have the song you want, you can tell them.
So you might be wondering, if the website is legal, why in the world are the prices so low? Mp3million answers your question:
"Our company is registered outside the US area to minimize the taxation. Also, we can offer such low prices due to guaranteed bulk purchases (minimum deposit on our web site is 15 USD)."
Disadvantages-
- So far, there's actually only two disadvantage that I found. The first is that if you want to pay using Paypal, which is what I do, you have to purchase a pin code from www.pincodereseller.com.*
I've done this before and it worked great.
- And the second is that you have to add at least 15$ to your account at a time. (I personally add 30$ to get the free 15$ bonus)
Conclusion
I'm sure there are plenty of different places where you can get music online. However, my personal recommendation as far as quality, price, and security, is Mp3million.
How safe is Mp3million?
"We provide highest level of data exchange encryption and never store your personal information on our servers. All transactions are processed via SSL connections by GeoTrust. Our Website is also secured by the Hacker Safe certificate from McAfee."
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You wrote: 30.03.13 21:17:31
Do the artists get the same amount of money when people buy
from mp3million as they do when people buy from itunes?
Mp3million.com support reply: 30.03.13 21:17:31
Dear friend,
This is a part of our commercial information that we can not
disclose. Nevertheless, we'd like to mention that service www.mp3million.com
pays full-scale author's royalties to owners of pieces of music, trademarks,
names, slogans and other copyright objects used on the site. Any further
distribution, resale or broadcasting is prohibited.
Thank you for using our service. Feel free to contact us if
you need any further information.
We wish you a very happy Easter,
Lily
The Mp3million Team
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Oh, and you get 2 free songs just for making an account!
Happy listening.
I've actually been using this service for many years, since before there was a split and mp3million broke off taking the customer base with it. The music is always excellent quality and there have only been a couple of times that after purchasing a specific song, the download came as a different song or version. But that was over many years... I'm not sure but I think I'm at almost 10 years. :) The nice thing is that those hard to find or unusual tracks are frequently easier to find here than on many other sites.
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ReplyDeleteGreat review. For me, there's an additional advantage to mp3million not mentioned above. They allow you to download perfectly clean raw mp3s. This means that no secondary software or cumbersome media players (like iTunes) are involved or necessary, unless you decide to use them later. Very flexible indeed.
ReplyDeleteTheir search bar works very well, offering suggestions below as you type, just like Google. This allows you to quickly jump to what you need in their library. Well done.
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to use this service for over a month and they will not accept my payment.
ReplyDeleteI've been in contact with customer service and they said there isn't anything they can do.
Not a good way to run a business!!!
I have tracked fradulent activity on my account. Tried working with their customer service for months. Unable to resolve. $20 of service used and $100 "disappeared" from my account. I have now cancelled my account. Beware and stay away from this company. Their activity is listed under the company name of Good Metal Crafts???
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks for sharing the website. Actually, we can download music from any website via recording. I'm using Leawo Music Recorder and it can even automatically add tags to music after recording.
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