I use Freegal Music. It's provided through my local library's website, so I'm not sure if that's a thing all libraries do or not. Basically I just go to my library's website, click the Freegal Music link, enter my card number, and I can download 5 songs a week. It's not exactly VO friendly, but it works once you figure out the layout and workarounds. I've actually found it WAY easier to download the songs through the IOS app and then go to my download history on my Mac to save the songs. HTH! :)
https://www.jamendo.com/ is also a good site for unsigned artists - there's a mix of media, the playlists are streams, but there's a huge amount of downloadable music too.
For historical (often really old) commercial downloads and more modern folk, inde, concerts and suchlike https://archive.org/ is really good - although a complicated site to navigate. It's a mixture of media types and the better/recent concert recordings are often stream only. Also a good source of free to download (mostly classic public domain stuff though) mp3 audio books - including the librivox catalogue
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I use Freegal Music. It's
I use Freegal Music. It's provided through my local library's website, so I'm not sure if that's a thing all libraries do or not. Basically I just go to my library's website, click the Freegal Music link, enter my card number, and I can download 5 songs a week. It's not exactly VO friendly, but it works once you figure out the layout and workarounds. I've actually found it WAY easier to download the songs through the IOS app and then go to my download history on my Mac to save the songs. HTH! :)
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https://www.jamendo.com/ is also a good site for unsigned artists - there's a mix of media, the playlists are streams, but there's a huge amount of downloadable music too.
For historical (often really old) commercial downloads and more modern folk, inde, concerts and suchlike https://archive.org/ is really good - although a complicated site to navigate. It's a mixture of media types and the better/recent concert recordings are often stream only. Also a good source of free to download (mostly classic public domain stuff though) mp3 audio books - including the librivox catalogue