Listening to music is always great, and there are plenty of really nice sites that offer free legal streaming of first rate music. Many sites offer the ability to make your own playlists, and many of them have really extensive libraries of great music. Whether you like pop, r ‘n b, deathmetal, classical, or whatever, you can find it all online. If you are on this site, you already know this ofcourse, so lets just cut the cr.., and get on with it!

• Deezer is a French site, and heavily slanted towards French music. Has a nice interface, and a big back-catalog of music. They have an app for most mobilephones, including iPhone and Android-based phones.
• Finetune has a library of 2 million songs, they say. The only problem is that songs are played on what must be 64 kb/s, and not hi-fi quality. That means they are ok for background music, but not great. You have to sign up, which is free.
• Grooveshark has to be my favourite site for streaming music. They have a great interface, and they have a huge library of music from many countries. You can make your own playlists, there are no ads, and they sound quality is generally really good! Unfortunately, they have been barred from iTunes so far, but they have an app for Android-phones. They have a free subscription, or a Premium subscription at USD 3 per month. The free one is excellent, though. Definitely worth a listen, you need to check this site out!
• Jamendo is used by artists who allow anyone to download and share their music. It’s free, legal and unlimited. Jamendo is a platform for free and legal music downloads. Available in seven languages, it offers the largest catalog of music under Creative Commons licenses. On Jamendo, artists grant use of their music for private uses free of cost.
• Jango is a free social music service that lets you create your own custom radio stations and share them with friends. Just type in what you want to hear – and your station will play the music you want along with similar favorites of other Jango users who share your taste. You can customize your stations further by adding more artists and rating songs. You can add as many artists as you want to your “station”. Has a nice clean interface, and seems easy to work with. No need to sign up to start listening to music.
• Last FM is a music service that lets you discover new music you like, based on the music you already listen to. When signing up with Last.fm, you’ll get your own music profile, including your personal charts. As soon as you start listening to music on Last.fm, or with your media player on your computer all this music, they will add the music to your profile. To be honest, I prefer Grooveshark, as I have experienced songs disappearing form playlists with Last.fm. Furthermore, listening to music on Last.fm, costs 3 Euro, if you live ouside the U.K., the U.S. or Germany.
• Mufin stands for music finder, and it’s a music discovery engine for helping you find and listen to music online. Mufin knows around 40 individual musical properties like rhythm, tempo, and instruments for each of the songs stored in its database. Just tell the machine what you like, and you will get similar tracks you might like as well immediately. They have a nice preview option, so you can check out the songs. Also offers a free player for download, with free online storage for 200 songs.
• Musicovery has two memberships, free or a Premium membership for 4 USD per month. The premium membership gets you hi-fi quality music, and an interactive interface, where you can choose music according to your mood. Looks quite cool, but the the free version doesn’t offer all that much.
• Shoutcast is a free-of-charge audio homesteading solution. It permits anyone on the internet to broadcast audio from their PC to listeners across the Internet. This means that you can either make your own station, or become a listener for free. Also avalable for Iphone/Ipod.
• Soundcloud lets you move music. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals. Receive tracks to your online dashboard where you can scan through, comment & remove tracks – all before downloading a thing. All your public tracks come with an audio player widget. Stick a SoundCloud DropBox on your site, or social network profile page and let any visitor send you a music track.
• The Radio has one thing that is very annoying – audio commercials betwen songs. Apart from this, though, they let you easily search artists, catogories or time-periods (70’s, 80’s), etc. Ad-free music will cost you USD 2.95 per month for a personal subscription.
• Tinysong lets you get links to any song in the world. Share those links with friends via Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, email or StumbleUpon. When you search for a song, they scour Grooveshark for that tune and serve up some options for you. Click Play to preview the song right in Tinysong, then choose the tune and get the link.
• Tube Radio works very much like iTunes, except you search through all music-videos on YouTube at the same time, and can make playlists out of these. So basically, you search all music video content on YouTube, and Tube Radio helps you keep tabs on what you want to save, both audio and video. Tube Radio is free.
• We Are Hunted is a pretty cool site that lets you know which 99 songs are the most sought and talked about on blogs on the internet at any given time. they search Spotify and Grooveshark as well, and they will let you play the songs in good sound quality. You can make you own chart, and they have a nice clean interface. Nice site!

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