How to Download Music

There are a number of different steps to download music.

Resources Needed

Music service

If you want to download music you will need to have a subscription to a music service like Yahoo Music, Real Player, or iPod. These all have different subscription fees and rules that go along with downloading from their websites. There are many other websites available out there, so choosing the one that best fits your needs will be a matter of doing an online search and comparing each music service. Many sites give free trial offers like seven days at no charge or a month at no charge, so try the service out and see if you like it. To take advantage of the free trial offers you need to have a credit card, and once the trial period is over if you did not cancel your subscription in time your credit card will be charged the full subscription price.

Computer system requirements.

Once you have chosen the music site you want to download from you have to make sure your computer has the capacity to download multiple tracks.

Music player.

Once signed up there will be a 'download player now' screen that will come up. From here you will need to click download and then there will be a windows box that will come up that you will have to click on. The site your are using will have instructions depending on which operating system you are using. After you have downloaded the player to your computer, you are now ready to start downloading your music.

Instructions

1. Login to your music account.
2. Find the song you want.
   • Do a song search using the search box
   • Do an artist search
   • Search using the website's given categories

Download music to music player.

• Once you have located the music you want to download, there will be a button to click that says download now.
• Click this button to download your song. The time it takes for the song to download will be determined by the web connection, server usage, and the type of operating system that you are using. Typically it will only take about a minute. The music will download directly to the player that you are using.
• Go in to your player and listen to your music!

One other thing to note is that some players have music available from the player. So instead of going to the music website, once the payer is downloaded you can always download songs directly from the player. You will need to stay connected to the web to do this. However, you will do your music searches and all downloading from the player itself. Either way will work, so it all depends on your preferences.

Downloading music is actually a pretty simple process so long as you remember to complete each step and pick a good website to download from. Choose the one that fits your needs best. Once you get good at it, the process will go very quickly.