Freemake Music Box is a small program which downloads and installs quickly. The aim of this program is to find you free, legal, music online for you to listen to, sure, there is plenty of ways to download copyrighted music online at the moment, but this program focuses on finding legal music only. Because of this legal issue, it offers streaming music only.

Upon initially launching the program, you’ll notice its minimalist but functional interface, you get a search box on one side and a playlist with playback functions on the other side of the window. It’s simple but effective.

When you begin searching for your chosen music, Freemake goes to work searching online, it seems that the bulk of its results come from YouTube, with the associated video then appearing in the left window too. Unfortunately, you are not able to save the files to your hard drive though! Although that isn’t too much of a shock when you consider that one of the aims of this software is to keep everything legal (at least developer promises that “you won’t get into trouble”).

But before you stop reading, there are still things it does let you do. The main one is that you can create a playlist of your found songs, without you having to gather and download all the music together in the first place. It’s here where Freemake becomes a free alternative to several such streaming music subscription services online.

It’s easy to add a song to a playlist as all you have to do is click the plus sign that appears alongside each song in the results, or you can simple press play to hear it. The homepage also says that iPad, Android and sync to mobile versions are on the way soon.

Although it is a very simple bare-bones alternative to paying for a subscription service, it may be just a little too simple and limited for some people, but it might be worth a try, as being free, you have nothing to lose.

Check out the homepage for the download and further info at Freemake.

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