The Web is full of free music, and BeeMP3 is intent on helping you find it. The site features an easy to use interface that allows you to search open directories and FTP servers for music that you can download with a single click. Be careful though; you'll probably find music from major artists that isn't legal to download. Still, it's a great way to find independent artists and other music that's been released for free.
BeeMP3's search technique isn't new--there are thousands of open directories out on the Web that contain music. When you visit one of them with your Web browser, you get a file listing, and you can click any of the files or folders to download the contents. Some people leave them up on purpose; others don't know they're uploading content to an open directory. Either way, with the right search strings, you can search any engine for mp3 files in those open directories, and BeeMP3 does this for you easily.
BeeMP3's interface is simple enough; it works like a search engine. Simply type in the name of a song, artist, or album and BeeMP3 will return any hits it finds. You can narrow the search down to go by artist, song. I searched for some obscure artists and turned up multiple pages of search results. Popular artists and top 40 bands are represented as well, but be careful. You'll probably find copyrighted music at BeeMP3, so download carefully and try to keep yourself out of legal trouble.
BeeMP3 boasts over 800,000 mp3s in its database, and claims to add another 10,000 per day. The service has a number of suggested downloads on the front page, including a bunch of mashups and international artists. BeeMP3, like other music search engines that search open directories, are especially valuable for this. If you're looking for remixes of your favorite artists, mashups, of DJ mixes, search tools like this are incredibly useful.
[ via Lifehacker ]
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