GWU Offers Free Music to Students Through FreeTunes
FreeTunes is a simple-to-use application that helps you back up your DRM protected music, videos or audiobooks to various well-known audio formats. You can also use it to convert files, extract audio from CDs or DVDs, play media and access, learn or gather information about the current file.
It's hard to find totally free music online these days, as the industry seems obsessed with having us rent our tunes via subscription services (like Apple Music). But legally downloadable music does still exist online, if you know where to look.
GWU's library is working with the streaming service Napster to provide students in its residence halls with software for iTunes that allows them to download songs and albums from the web. It's the latest school to do so, following in the footsteps of Pennsylvania State University and the University of Rochester. The GWU deal also marks the first time a college has partnered with Napster, which was founded in 1999 and pioneered the business of selling legal online downloads of songs and movies.
Though it doesn't have the huge selection of a store like iTunes, Google Play has a pretty good collection of free tracks from up and coming artists and from bigger names in music, such as OMI and Walk the Moon. Its "Antenna Sampler" section, for instance, showcases 19 free 320Kbps MP3 songs that change monthly. The site also gives away entire albums for a limited time: Last week it was Sia's 1000 Forms of Fear; this week, Jason Derulo's Everything is 4.