Thursday, February 19, 2009

How You Can Download Free Music Videos

By Graham McKenzie

Back to the beginning of the MTV era in the 1980s, music videos have held a special fascination with music lovers around the world. These short films produced to showcase new songs and new talents looking for publicity have evolved into tools for directors to showcase their new singers, for bands to advertise their style, and for music to spread throughout the planet. Much faster and much more visible than audio alone, music videos aren't just on TV anymore. People download videos from the Internet every day, and there are a number of legal and easy ways to do so.

Just about everybody knows you can get music videos by paying a small fee to iTunes, but just about nobody really wants to pay money for something they used to watch for free on VH1 or MTV. Since the advent of reality TV, the odds of finding any free downloads from the so-called music stations are just about nil, but there is no shortage of websites providing you all the resources you need to get the videos you want.

The websites for MTV, Yahoo!, and Fuse, to take an example, link you to videos you can watch for free 24 hours a day. Typically you get cost-free access to any video producers want to promote, particularly if the site asks you for ratings or comments. Usually these sites will offer options for different bandwidths and give you additional links to new songs by the featured artist or other artists under the same label.

Not to be overlooked is YouTube, which posts tens of thousands of music videos. Some labels will pull videos from YouTube almost as quickly as they are put up claiming posting on YouTube violates copyright, but most labels are OK with YouTube because they value free publicity.

The right site for you to use to link to a free music video depends on the artist you want to hear. Official band websites often highlight free downloads alongside b-sides, rare tracks, and streaming tracks from upcoming releases. A short search will bring you to hubs where new artists and generous bands list free videos. The drawback to hubs, however, is that their selection tends to be limited. Additionally, there is shareware that makes it possible for you to record streaming video. You can find these software downloads at your favorite artist's site or YouTube.

Whatever you decide to do, it is 100% possible to locate and view free music downloads from the Internet. Even if the music stations don't offer what you want, hundreds of millions of fans around the earth still find exactly the videos they want to view.

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