Many people are sharing and downloading music completely free of charge which makes life easier as well as cheaper in the long run. You can spend a fortune on music because your taste changes and new music is being recorded all the time. By knowing how you can take part in free music downloads you can guarantee that you will save money and be able to get access to all the music downloads you need. This process is not that hard to be honest, most people will be able to get to grips with it with ease so there is no reason why anyone should be paying to download music tracks. Firstly all you need is a client that can give you access to the music, there are many available free of charge so be sure to look into them all to guarantee you make the right choice. The first choice you have to make is if you want to have a peer 2 peer (P2P) or a torrent application.

The main difference is that P2P software connects to other computers to allow you to download the data whereas if you use torrents you will use a website to get access to the music. Once you have that set up you simply search for what music track or album you are looking for and then choose to download it. If you are using the torrent option make sure that you read the comments to ensure that it is virus free and the correct file, whichever method you are using you should make sure that you have your anti virus software open in the background to increase your security.

When the file is downloaded you will need to find where it got saved to your computer, once you have found this you can do as you want with it. Many people decide to burn music to CD's or to transfer it to an mp3 player to listen to it on the go. You can always change this file path to make it easier to locate if you wish, go into the settings and you will find it in there. If you want to give something back to the community where you downloaded the music from you can place it in your shared documents or change the shared documents in the settings to your music file so that people can access your computer to get the files if you have something they want. Be sure to check the maximum speed you are allowing for upload as this could severely slow down your internet connection so you are best to limit them so that you won't be affected.

Before you put anything into your shared file you should always run an anti virus on it to ensure that it is safe to distribute because you would hate to be the cause of some ones computer getting infected with a virus. If this was to happen it also means that you have the virus so you would need to eliminate is as soon as possible.

Justin Harrison is the author of this article on Free Music Downloads. Find more information about Music Download here.