iHCPL - Next Gen Sound #24 - The Sweet Sound of Music

I thought I better catch up with the Next Generation on Sound, so here is my post for exercise # 24. I looked at a number of pay music sites in the past. Before my iPod was stolen, I had used iTunes frequently (hopefully I'll get a new MP3 player soon - tax refund anyone?). To be honest, I wasn't overly fond of iTunes. I found it rather difficult to use, although the iPod was a dream to use. Funny how one was easy and the other hard.

Since I've downloaded music (and audio books) from the HCPL Digital Media collection, I thought I'd give music.download.com. Since I really like Celtic Woman, I searched to see if they had any free downloads. Unfortunately, they only had a couple free streaming MP3s. As a side note, I actually like this feature of the C|Net site a lot and can see fiddling around with creating online play lists more than downloading.

While they didn't have Celtic Woman for download, there was a related item that came up - Celtic Shores that had a bunch of free downloads, so I downloaded Amazing Grace. Glad this is just a test, because it was an incredibly annoying version, LOL. I skipped the transfer to an MP3 player, because frankly I've done that a lot with audio books, so I know how it works.

I'm glad I discovered this site. Another site I came across recently that's pretty cool is Songza, a music search site. When you enter keyword(s) it will find any songs or artists related and then you can play directly online. While there's no downloading, you can create playlists.