I receive regular emails from Money Saving Expert run by Martin Lewis and just received the following which will help you find the cheapest LEGAL download.

Coming from MSE, it's reliable, ad free and safe.

As they say, every little helps..........



Special email about major new MoneySaving tool

www.TuneChecker.com

Finds the cheapest single & album MP3s

e.g. download no.1 album for £3.79 not £7.99

We've built a totally free, ad free new tool, that instantly searches legal download sites whether for iPods or other MP3, to find the cheapest tracks. It's called www.tunechecker.com, and frankly the best way to understand it is to try it.

Quick Tunechecker stats

* Over 9 million tracks. It scans nine million tracks at nine download sites.

* Biggest price difference listed is £153.02. Radiohead's The Best Of album currently ranges from £6.97 to £159.99 (yep it really is selling it at that price - of course this is likely to be the retailer's error - but elsewhere variance of 50-100% is common).

* Lists 346 free MP3s. It's found (and lists) over 300 currently available legal free downloads inc: Basement Jaxx Feelings Gone, Oli Brown Open Road, Nine Inch Nails Discipline, Mystery Jets Diamonds In The Dark and Royksopp Tricky Tricky. The main tunechecker menu lets you display the full list of free tracks.

* Includes five Top 40 charts. Charts listed include the official top 40 singles, albums, classical, dance & R&B. Plus you can listen to sample tracks.

* Price difference on current no.1 album is £4.02. The cheapest Susan Boyle's 'I dreamed a dream' download is £3.97; its average price is £6.87 and most expensive £7.99. The cheapest CD version is £7.68. (See the full top 10 below).

Martin Lewis and the MSE team.
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TOP TEN ALBUMS

1. Susan Boyle
I DREAMED A DREAM
Price Range: £3.97 — £7.99

2. JLS
JLS
Price Range: £3.97 — £7.99

3. Black Eyed Peas
THE E.N.D.
Price Range: £5.47 — £7.99

4. Queen
ABSOLUTE GREATEST
Price Range: £6.78 — £9.95

5. Leona Lewis
ECHO
Price Range: £3.97 — £7.99

6. Michael Buble
CRAZY
Price Range: £6.97 — £9.49

7. Lady Gaga
THE FAME
Price Range: £4.47 — £7.99

8. Snow Patrol
UP TO NOW
Price Range: £6.92 — £9.99

9. Robbie Williams
REALITY KILLED THE...
Price Range: £3.97 — £7.99

10. Will Young
THE HITS
Price Range: £4.99 — £7.99


TOP TEN SINGLES

1. Peter Kay's Animated All...
CHILDREN IN NEED...
Price Range: 49p — 99p

2. X Factor Finalists 2009
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Price Range: 49p — 99p

3. Jason Derulo
WHATCHA SAY
Price Range: 49p — £1.49

4. Black Eyed Peas
MEET ME HALFWAY
Price Range: 29p — £1.19

5. Lady Gaga
BAD ROMANCE
Price Range: 29p — £1.49

6. Rhianna
RUSSIAN ROULETTE
Price Range: 29p — 99p

7. Kesha
TIK TOK
Price Range: 29p — £1.07

8. Cheryl Cole
FIGHT FOR THIS LOVE
Price Range: 29p — £1.19

9. Susan Boyle
WILD HORSES
Price Range: 49p — 99p

10. Leona Lewis
HAPPY
Price Range: 29p — £1.07


TOP TEN ALBUMS

1. Ministry of Sound
ELECTRONIC 80s
Price Range: £7.99 — £9.99

2. Various Artists
NOW XMAS
Price Range: £6.97 — £9.99

3. Various Artists
NOW 74
Price Range: £11.98 — £16.99

4. Westlife
WHERE WE ARE
Price Range: £3.97 — £7.99

5. Various Artists
LEGENDS THE XMAS...
Price Range: £4.49 — £9.95

6. Andrea Bocelli
MY CHRISTMAS
Price Range: £6.97 — £8.49

7. Various Artists
LIVE LOUNGE 4
Price Range: £4.99 — £9.99

8. Jay Sean
ALL OR NOTHING
Price Range: £6.97 — £7.99

9. John Mayer
BATTLE STUDIES
Price Range: £4.99 — £7.99

10. Hayley Westenra
WINTER MAGIC
Price Range: £6.57 — £8.49

I had this through email the other day too - Was going to post about it, but you beat me to it!

Seems pretty good! I also signed up to Sky Songs for free through last weeks MSE... 10 tracks or one album download...

Cheers,

David

Cheers!
Saved me a few quid today using this! £40 on music, probably would have been £45/50 on iTunes/7Digital.

Jas

Looks good! Sky Tunes will hurt Spotify methinks...

Teez

karaoke downloads are expensive i only know of two sites where you can buy single tracks and they are zoom and SBI

but most karaoke tracks you have to buy a minimum of three at a time at £2.00 a track.. karaoke users penalised once again

Anyone know a site where you can buy legal, one off tracks, with good branded karaoke labels?

Robster... in the past I've used

buykaraokedownloads.com

They seem to be ok to use as well... I emailed them asking about public use and they ok'ed it :)

What are peoples views on NAPSTER? And using WMA (DRM) files????

I doubt it. Spotify is really easy to use. Sky Songs requires a browser too.
Plus if you're spotify premium you can play them offline...

Sky songs didn't have one track that Amazon had - Although my wife told me the track I downloaded I could have got cheaper elsewhere If I'd checked the tunchecker site. Thing is though I had amazon vouchers, so didn't realyl "cost" anything...

Cheers,

David

Good heads up - thanks

you can only download napster tracks if you subscribe to Napster To Go. they used to allow it on a normal subscription but removed that option. You do get MP3 credits with your subscription (not wma no drm etc) which you can burn to cd etc.

the leagl issue with Napster/Spotify/Sky is not clear - sure it states in the T&C's not for commercial use but i tunes beatport etc etc etc state the same.

I am going to write to PRS in the new year for clarification on such services as they told me on the phone recently 'any legal downloads'

Posted many times in the past and haven't found a better site yet

TriceraSoft