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iTunes is a great choice for organizing, storing, and downloading music. Everything is even better if you enjoy the utilities at no cost. You can take advantage of a number of free options available directly from the iTunes storefront, and spending more time researching will also give you more music files from the Internet at no extra charge. Through this article, you know how to download songs for free and open with iTunes, even without downloading music from the store.

Steps

Method 1 of 3: Download free music from iTunes

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   Create an iTunes account. If you want to post and download free or paid content, you'll need an iTunes account to browse the store and choose your options. Enter billing information or other pertinent data on the homepage and don't forget the important ones.
   • Update to the latest version of iTunes. It's a good idea to use the latest version of iTunes, especially when you want to find free songs and deals through the iTunes service. At the iTunes tab, select "Check for updates" and update the software if needed before starting.

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   Find Free Song of the Day (Free Song of the Day). After opening iTunes, open the iTunes store by clicking on the card in the upper right corner. To the right of the iTunes home page, you'll see a list of "Quick Links" and select "Free on iTunes" at the bottom of the list. You can browse through the options after clicking on this link.
   • Every day, iTunes updates this list, making it easy to find new content and download free content. This is a great site for downloading music and more for iTunes, from new songs to free music podcasts.

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   Find more iTunes deals. Free music shows up in many different forms on iTunes, from the offer to download free albums (albums Songs of Innocence of U2 is available exclusively on iTunes), to iTunes' free radio utility. In general you can listen to a lot of content for free.
   • Make sure you subscribe to iTunes notifications for new updates and free songs you get to download when the time comes.

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   Enter gift card information into the iTunes store. While it's not really free, if you get the gift card as a gift it's completely free. On the right side of the home page, click on "Redeem Gift card" and enter the information in the window to receive the offer from your gift. Next, you choose to download the content that suits your money. The payment will be transferred directly from your account to the store. advertisement

Method 2 of 3: Find free music

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   Visit a free MP3 download site. Many music blog sites allow viewers to download songs for free to promote upcoming music groups and singers. Researching music reviews can help you find songs that are on offer and can be downloaded for free.
   • Pitchfork, Aquarium Drunkard, and song aggregation site are all places to keep your music up-to-date and download a number of songs for free. These sites often provide MP3 files that you can save directly to your iTunes library.
   • While the song quality is sometimes not good, it's a quick and inexpensive way to get the songs you need. Since the songs are in MP3 format, you can open them in iTunes.
   • Simply open iTunes, open Library, then drag and drop songs into the window, or right-click and open with iTunes. After a while, you can listen to the song on iTunes.

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   Download free mix-tape. The hip-hop mainstream and underground artists both enjoy a new digital approach, which includes allowing listeners to download music projects of the length of an album for free, called mix-tapes. Similar to the transfer of traditional tapes from artist to music producer, new mix-tapes are released online for free as a way to promote new music products and keep the artist's reputation. famous.
   • Some artists choose to publish mix-tapes directly from their websites or Bandcamp sites, but the DatPiff site is the cradle of the internet mix-tape culture. The "Featured Mix-Tapes" tab allows unregistered users to download "Featured" songs at will for free.
   • Although this site specializes in providing music by amateur and underground artists like Mick Jenkins or Action Bronson, famous rappers like Lil Wayne, TI, and Raekwon regularly release free mix-tapes to make a name of themselves. for their upcoming album.
   • The number of free songs is usually limited, but paid members are allowed to download as many songs as they want. If you like hip-hop, DatPiff is a good choice for downloading free music.

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   Find emerging artists. The Radiohead band changed the music market with the release of an album In Rainbows based on the desired premium form. Given that more and more people want to listen to free music, emerging artists are often eager to present their music to their listeners without paying too much attention to immediate profits. So they choose to release songs and expansion tracks or even entire albums at no charge on sites like SoundCloud or Bandcamp. Explore these pages by popular "Featured" genre or artist for free songs you can download and enjoy.
   • The custom form of payment sounds like a fee, but you can enter 0 in the checkout window. Thus, you will not spend any money.

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   Subscribe to music podcasts. Many online radio programs and podcasts often play songs that you can listen to for free. While it's not possible to download individual songs, you can subscribe to podcasts and listen to free songs as you like. Free music podcasts that can be downloaded to your mobile or desktop device include:
   • Country Classics. The show is hosted by Joe Bussard, who owns the world's largest 78 rpm vinyl record collection. This podcast usually plays pre-war music, blue music and country music. This is a unique song collection introduced by someone who is somewhat bizarre. Best of all, it's free!
   • NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts. Short concerts take place in the NPR studio and are downloaded for free. This is a great way to listen to your favorite artists' performances in an intimate setting, at no expense.
   • Theme Time Radio Hour, originally broadcast on Sirius XM Radio. Bob Dylan's entire radio show is free to download, with artists such as Koco Taylor, Beastie Boys, and more.

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   Download the music of YouTube videos. You can find many collections of songs on YouTube, and many websites also offer a video download service that lets you download songs taken from YouTube videos. Just paste the URL of the YouTube video and the website will give you the MP3 file of the music.
   • Listen to YouTube and let free programs like Tube To MP3, YouTube to MP3, All2MP3 take care of the rest. Download the software, install and paste the copied path into the browser. This will give you an MP3 file that you can listen to using iTunes.
   • You should first find artists on YouTube and then look at their profiles for links to other music sharing sites where they publish more songs for their music career. Check out the Bandcamp or other social media sites for more choices and to see more new artists.

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   Collect songs from friends. You try asking friends with a good taste for music to create compilation CDs of their favorite songs and you add them to your iTunes playlist. In addition, you can also use a free file saving and sharing service such as Dropbox that allows users to save documents, files and folders online to share with others. You should create a few new accounts, then just ask your friends to upload good songs to the shared folder so you can download them to your computer and add them to iTunes.

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   Download the Torrent file using additional software. Torrents are large encrypted files that need to be extracted after downloading. You can use Torrent downloaders like uTorrent or Frostwire to handle it. Use an online torrent file search site like Pirate Bay to find specific files and then unzip and download them using a torrent downloader or just search directly on the software. Once the download is complete, just drop and drag the file directly into iTunes to listen. advertisement

Method 3 of 3: Transfer music to iTunes

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   Drag and drop to open songs in iTunes. After downloading free music, the next step you will do is open and listen to music using iTunes. The iTunes software is very easy to use, so you can do it easily in most cases. If you have downloaded a few files, you can open iTunes first and drag the file directly into the open Library window. This will open the file after a few seconds.
   • If the file doesn't work, click the file icon and go to "Get Info" to see the file type. If the file is not MP3, you need to reformat it to be able to open it with iTunes.

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   Right-click and select iTunes as the default software. If the file is saved to the Download folder, you can open it by double-clicking or right-clicking the file and selecting iTunes as the default program to open it. On most computers, iTunes is usually selected by default.

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   Extract the file (if necessary). Many large files like mixtapes are usually compressed and must be unzipped before using them. Many newer operating systems have a file decompression utility available, but older versions still need third-party software like WinZip to handle them.
   • Convert other file formats to MP3. Occasionally, you will download MP4, AAC, .wav or files in other formats that cannot be opened with iTunes. In this case, each file needs to be reformatted before you can open it with iTunes - usually only a few formats are supported.
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Advice

• If drag-and-drop to save files to your iTunes library doesn't work, right-click or hold the Command key when clicking each file, then select "Open with ..." and select "iTunes. ". This will open the song using iTunes and save the file to your library.