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Music As an Expression of Identity

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Music As an Expression of Identity
By Rebecca Stigall

Since the beginning of time, music has been used as an expression of cultural identity. Ancient tribal societies used music as a foundation for gatherings and to express their history, ethnicity, and cultural beliefs. Music has changed throughout the ages, but the use of music as an essential part of cultural and individual expression has changed very little.

Music’s integral connection to identity is often difficult to recognize, especially in today’s society where music may not be viewed as being as message-oriented as it once was. There were times when entire generations or cultures of individuals each knew the same songs. During World War II, entire nations of people sang songs that expressed their national identity with their cause and their connection to their fighting forces. Again, with the protest songs of the 1960’s and 1970’s, the people of the nation explored their feelings about war, youth, and racial unrest. And, as music as a form of expression has grown, different individuals within the same society have come to identify with varying forms of music as their own individual expression of self.

Although music may not be as blatantly descriptive as the songs of decades past, music speaks to the individual in the same way that the individual speaks through music. A nation of parents sat perplexed as their children became entranced by the sounds of rock and roll, and now there are as many types of music to identify with as there are generational cliques to adapt the musical message. Parents are still perplexed by youth who dress like Britney Spears and Eminem and who use language expressed in song. The addition of music videos has also added a note to self-expression through music that wasn’t present until the last few years. Unlike past generations, today’s youth can see how the music is being expressed and can identify visually with their chosen genre. Television and the internet have also allowed international peoples to share their cultures through music.

Whether music is viewed as being an influence on youth or as being influenced by youth, is still secondary to the fact that it has always been present as a socializing factor. Whether that socialization takes place as a part of a group membership or as a way to express individuality, there is no way to ignore the fact that the influence and expression of music expands as the world community shares more of its musical styles. People may find that music speaks to them in a certain way, moves them in a certain way, or that they identify with its message. People may also find that they can use music to express themselves as individuals as well as to conform to a group. Doubtless, music and its connection to individual and group identity will take on new forms as people continue to be exposed to varying forms of music and culture.

Rebecca J. Stigall is a full-time freelance writer, author, and editor with a background in psychology, education, and sales. She has written extensively in the areas of self-help, relationships, psychology, health, business, finance, real estate, fitness, academics, and much more! Rebecca is a highly sought after ghostwriter with clients worldwide, and offers her services through her website at http://www.forewordcommunications.com/

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How Music Feeds Our Social Mood

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How Music Feeds Our Social Mood
By Randolph Directo

When we are awake and alert, we have a predominance of beta rhythms within our neural patterns. Imagine a busy work day with a tiny adrenaline rush.

When we invest in brain wave entrainment (BWE) programs, it’s usually for purposes of relaxation. We invest in alpha and theta rhythm programs to help with stress relief and relaxation. We invest in delta rhythm programs to help with pain relief and sleep. There are all kinds of entrainment programs for other purposes too like learning good habits.

Consider this: We are conditioned into certain habits and impulses when we are awake and alert. Familiar examples might be traumatic experiences from our childhoods like emotional abuse or a terrible accident. The consequence is an invisible barrier of fear placed within the mind that can extend into all sorts of adult idiosyncrasies; these psychosocial indiscretions are difficult to counter.

On the other end of the spectrum, we push through situations that give us confidence. We always test ourselves to gain confidence in our abilities. One of the greatest tests is to find true love and happiness. First, we must have the courage to share true love and happiness with others. Imagine doing a public performance, saving a life, or giving a distraught person a reason for living.

Whether gaining fear or confidence, we do it under extreme conditions: Our hearts are pounding in our ears. We break into cold sweats. Adrenaline gushes hot through our veins as if in a life or death struggle. Our brainwaves shoot into gamma rhythms, sometimes beyond, in moments of intense stress. All things relative, people who have faced the same test 1000 times are as peaceful as can be, but their lives are at a stand still.

We can meditate on a situation. Play it in our heads again and again until we get it right, but our waking state must deal with that tense situation in real time with all the unknown factors and intricacies.

Fortunately, our subconscious and super conscious are there to guide our intuition and gut instincts. Unfortunately, we are not always raised with good, productive intuition. Sometimes, we’re not nurtured with life positive intentions, so our “knee jerk” reactions don’t always serve us or those around us.

How Our “Knee Jerk” Reactions Fail Us

In general, we tend to avoid tense situations, not because we know what might happen, but because we don’t know how to deal with adversity. What are we supposed to do when we are “nurtured” into avoiding bad situations? Our emotional securities end up telling us, “don’t rock the boat, that’s too dangerous.”

Avoiding the unknown becomes habit forming. Avoiding the “unknowns” is an idiosyncrasy caused by barriers of fear within the mind. Most people reach a point in their lives where they no longer wish to test their true metal because of fear.

At this point some people might assume that I want you to place yourself in unnecessary peril. No, that’s not what I want. We place ourselves in peril by not questioning potential evils and dangers in modern society, thereby avoiding unknowns. I ask that people educate themselves to put themselves in necessary peril.

In decadent society, mainstream media justifies and feeds our human frailties including fear. Politicians and the media consistently raise fears of maniacs, terrorist plots, economic depravities, and threat of disease. Then they point their fingers at corruption in other countries while avoiding our own. Meanwhile, another spotlight is on Charlie Sheen. Is mainstream media helping him to justify his corruption and that of others?

Decadent Society is only interested in our lower level reasoning. Mainstream marketers aim at our limbic system (id) which is instinctive, older than language, yet faster than thinking; it controls trust, attention and desire. Mainstream marketers depend on our lower level reasoning to “make the sale.” For this reason, the mainstream sells its contents like processed sweets for our instant gratification.

Mainstream music is produced with the same intention. For example, country music and gothic rock tends to resonate with depression which is based in fear. “Mature” rap and thrash metal justifies anger and vengeance within its audience. Most pop music and their artists like Katy Perry are packaged as processed sweets for our instant gratification.

How Music Feeds Our Minds

I’ve mentioned relaxation programs using BWE. For example, Dr. Jeffrey Thompson produces relaxing piano music with underlying entrainment, but it lacks intention. In general, most BWE programs:

Do not induce emotional intentions in listeners the way mainstream media does;
Only adjust our brain wave patterns without feeding any part of our emotional minds.

In direct contrast, music:

Induces emotional intentions in listeners by feeding id, ego, and super ego;
Adjusts our brain wave patterns while feeding our emotional minds.

According to the latest neuropsychology research, music containing brain wave entrainment (BWE) technology and impactful emotional content is more efficacious than BWE alone. Academic neuropsychology does not treat people as spiritual beings who require emotional impact.

Ironically, mainstream media including the music industry hires neuropsychology experts to help them make an emotional impact on their audience - and it works. The music industry connects with people at the emotional level. If you’ve ever watched American Idol, the judges like to tell contestants to “connect” with their audience, so they become marketable products.

Amid the musical genres, uplifting music feeds us in a good way. The problem is most people are attracted to music that resonates only with their id and ego. Preston Nichols in “The Music of Time” says that rock n’ roll has been engineered for decades to appeal to the id, our lower level mind patterns. According to my studies, I tend to agree.

For this reason, we also have upbeat music that feeds us in a good way. Can music that resonates with lower level mind patterns induce good intentions? Yes, as long as it also resonates with ethics, higher level mind or super ego we have balance.

Music that induces life-positive, productive intentions is not in big demand, but it exists for the few of us who crave it; for example, gospel rock, soul and some new age music resonates with our super egos, our higher level reasoning, morals and ethics because they induce good intentions.

We are attracted to that which justifies or feeds our personalities. Our favorite music usually does that, but most people only want to feed their human frailties. At times, I also have a guilty pleasures for emo-rock, probably because of Amy Lee. Sometimes, we have to face those frailties to move past them.

Nature vs. Nurture

A myriad of research on the human mind took my interest as I discovered a golden thread running through all of the music and BWE tools that resonate with us most: We love nature. We love the way it stimulates our senses.

Imagine yourself under an apple tree: All the branches are slightly different, but they’re mostly the same patterns. We can look beyond one layer and see the same pattern in the next layer, then the next; this is fractal geometry. We are attracted to nature because it reflects natural order within our minds - which are reflections of nature.

The same applies to weather phenomena. Although storms consist mostly of white noise, there are also textures and rhythms which form familiar patterns. Storms also contain choruses like wind and cadences like thunder, the same type of patterns we expect to hear in music.

Reflections of Our Minds

The music we love resonates with the fractal patterns within our minds. For this reason, younger people tend to listen to heavier, upbeat patterns like beta rhythms while older people who want to relax tend to listen to softer patterns like alpha rhythms.

More important than the music are the concepts and intentions within that music. For example, death metal reflects a subculture of dark mind patterns obsessed with dark, life-negative concepts. The neural patterns associated with these concepts simply resonate with dark mind patterns.

On the other hand, waking rhythms are also applied by artists like Sarah Brightman, Enya, and Yanni. The music they make reflects their mind patterns with enlightened, life-positive intentions.

Rhythms are resonant carriers for all of these concepts and intentions which also reflect our mind patterns.

We remember “catchy” lyrics of a song as a mantra that we sing in our heads ad infinitum because the rhythm and the concept reflects our emotions. We have an intrinsic emotional order for songs in the same way we have an intrinsic geometric order for trees or clouds.

In some way, they match our mind patterns like pieces in a puzzle. For this reason, we remember songs with the greatest emotional triggers, no matter how old we get.

Intentions within a song are like the music carried on radio waves: When we tune into those waves, we tune into the music. When we tune into the music, we tune into the intentions. Good or bad, these intentions nurture us to reflect who we are.

Let’s do ourselves a favor by feeding our minds once in a while with good intentions; it’s a balanced diet for the soul.

Increase concentration, creative focus, mental speed and acuity with “The Big Picture,” a HealingMindN Production. “The Big Picture” consists of 70 minutes of upbeat multi-genre music in the middle of a city storm with imbedded technology that uses some of the latest research in waking rhythms* and spiritual meditations to stimulate the superego. “The Big Picture” is available through HealingMindN.com where you can find complimentary soundtracks and a lot more.

Randolph’s first introduction to more esoteric music was through the work of Charles E.H Lucy, “Pitch, Pi, and Other Musical Paradoxes” wherein he learned about natural microtonality and applied the information to create his own microtonal double dulcimer. The sound is similar to a sitar depending on how it is played, but more eclectic and can be heard in strange and unusual ways throughout his latest album, The Big Picture.

His use of ancient gematria is integrated into the sound scapes of all of his self improvement, brainwave entrainment albums through proper ratios of modulation and panning. More importantly, he discovered how ancient and sacred gematria are part of nature and that nature is reflected within the human mind, his main reason for desiring a degree in neuropsychology while furthering his studies in music.

*”Endogenous control of waking brain rhythms induces neuroplasticity in humans,” “Significant changes in brain plasticity observed following alpha brainwave training;” Ros T, Munneke MA, Ruge D, Gruzelier JH, Rothwell JC; Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Music Recording Equipment

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:02:54 +0000

Music Recording Equipment
By Angela G. M.

The quality of any music depends upon the quality of recording and the music recording equipment used. The quality of each and every device used in recording makes a difference in the excellence of the music. While the primary equipment required to record music is a microphone there are other supporting devices that add to the superiority of the recording.

Another aspect that one has to take care is where the recording is going to be done. Indoor studio recording equipments are totally different from the devices and tools used for external outdoor recordings.

If you are planning to set up a recording studio, you must always choose quality equipment even if it seems to be a bit expensive. Not only will they serve as a long time investment, they will also save you from post recording hassles and disorders.

The mixers and accessories make your work easier. Extensive collection of music recording equipments such as Headphone & In-Ear Monitors, Mastering Recorders, Mixers & Accessories, Multi-track Recorders, Portable Recorders, Power Conditioners, Signal Processors, studio tracks, studio racks, monitors and more can be found on the Internet.

Digital recording equipments offer the best and highest quality audio. A branded digital recording set costs thousands of dollars. They can be purchased either at any of the music recording equipment store or online. They also offer used devices for discounted prices. No doubt they would be in good working condition. By buying them, one can save money to set up an efficient studio successfully. The equipment used for recording performs various tasks.

Portable Recorders and Multi-track Recorders

For a home recording unit, portable multi track recorders are available in the market that deliver excellent results. They can record tracks simultaneously, edit the present ones, mix tracks, overdub new ones and perform various other tasks. The portable multi-track can handle anything from live recording to full band configuration. Other features of the recorders include studio like surroundings, ability to work on AC or DC power and easy to set up anywhere.

Power Conditioners and Signal Processors

The power conditioners are one of the most important devices used in the recording set to reduce the noise level and supply an uninterrupted source of power. These devices not only reduce the noise on the floor but also improve the range and clarity of the sound. The signal processors reduce the buzzing and humming sound caused due to current low in the power supply sources during the recording. They take care of sensitive signals and filter the radiation and sound.

Headphone & In-Ear Monitors

Headphones and in-ear monitors are small devices fixed in the ear to monitor a specific sound track closely. Monitoring and mixing can be done efficiently using good headphones and in- ear monitors. Such devices with better fitting and better sound help in audio recordings. They help in getting rid of acoustics and maintain a track of single sound. Singers and musicians use these devices in studios to stay in sync with the other tracks.

Mixers & Accessories

The audio mixers or sound mixers are basically takes in two or more sounds, mixes them as required and emits it as a single output signal. Besides sound mixing the equipment has controls with which signals can be merged, sound levels can be adjusted and special effects can be added to the existing sounds. Sound mixers come in different sizes and capacities. You can get huge unit to portable, easy to handle mixers, which are used for various purposes. They are usually described through the number of channels they support. Sound mixers can be installed at home and in studios, and they can even be used on stage during live performances.

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Top 50 Music Quotations

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:01:57 +0000

Top 50 Music Quotations
By Danielle Hollister

Discover the phenomenonal complexity of music and reflect on the way it can positively influence your life with this sound collection of riveting quotes…

“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.”
– Joseph Addison
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
–Maya Angelou
“Music is either good or bad, and it’s got to be learned. You got to have balance.”
– Louis Armstrong
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
– Berthold Auerbach
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”
–Johann Sebastian Bach
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music can change the world. ”
– Ludwig Van Beethoven
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
– Leonard Bernstein
“Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. ”
– James Brown
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“All music comes from God.”
– Johnny Cash
“If you learn music, you’ll learn most all there is to know. ”
– Edgar Cayce
“Music is nothing separate from me. It is me… You’d have to remove the music surgically. ”
– Ray Charles
“Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. ”
– Miles Davis
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
– George Eliot
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
–T. S. Eliot
“We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. ”
– Jerry Garcia
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.”
– Edgar Watson Howe
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.”
– Victor Hugo
“The history of a people is found in its songs.”
– George Jellinek
“Music is the vernacular of the human soul.”
– Geoffrey Latham
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
– Walter J. Lippmann
“Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.”
– Hal A. Lingerman
“Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.”
– Giuseppe Mazzini
“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.”
– Henry Miller
“I started making music because I could.”
– Alanis Morissette
“Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. ”
– Alanis Morissette
“Music is spiritual. The music business is not. ”
– Van Morrison
“Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.”
– Theodore Mungers
“Without music life would be a mistake.”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.”
– Charlie Parker
“Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. ”
– Elvis Presley
“It’s the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. ”
– Lou Reed
“The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.”
– Lionel Richie
“Music should never be harmless.”
– Robbie Robertson
“Give me a laundry list and I’ll set it to music.”
– Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
“All music is important if it comes from the heart. ”
– Carlos Santana
“Music is the key to the female heart.”
– Johann G. Seume
“The best music… is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. ”
– Bruce Springsteen
“All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.”
– Bruce Springsteen
“In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.”
–George Szell
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul’s own speech.”
–Unknown
“Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.”
–Unknown
“I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn’t just a fad. This is a positive thing.”
– Eddie Vedder
“Music at its essence is what gives us memories. ”
– Stevie Wonder
“There’s a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don’t know what it is. But I’ve got it.”
– Ron Wood

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Some History Facts on Music Videos

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 05:50:45 +0000

Some History Facts on Music Videos
By Ispas Marin

Music videos represent a crucial part of the music industry. Artists owe their careers to music videos as they are being given the chance of impressing the public not just with their vocal talent, but also with their looks or moves.

Thirty years ago, music video used to be less important then it is nowadays. MTV (Music Television) was the phenomenon that gave so much power and importance to the music video. MTV started broadcasting in 1981 in the USA and it marked the beginning of the music video’s ruling over the music industry. The first video ever played on MTV was ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ by The Buggles. As MTV was broadcasting 24-hour-a-day music, music videos were needed to be produced. Consequently, music video began to play an important role in artists’ careers. It is considered that even Madonna’s career has been greatly influenced by her videos that presented a sexy, appealing look of the artist. Some experts say that Madonna has been inspired by the image that the actress Greta Garbo has used in her silent movies. MTV has been highly controversial: some saw as the beginning of an amazing, new, fresh era in music, others considered it to mark the end of true musical talent, as artists have been become more appreciated for their looks instead of their vocal abilities.

Nowadays, the music video is as important as the song itself, sometimes even deciding the success of a song or artist. Collections of music videos are being sold on tapes or DVDs. Music video’s greatest fans are apparently watching them muted just to enjoy their artistic value, as they consider it to be a new form of art. They consider that a music video should be assessed based on its visual qualities and not on the song quality. It seems that the music ‘gurus’, corporate managers, have realised the potential of using female sex-appeal in music videos, therefore this feature is being used excessively as it is more popular for the public.

The birth of the music video has created a new type of directors: video directors. MTV started even listing directors with video credits and this profession has become more and more popular. But it seems that most video directors don’t specialise in this particular art form, they see it as being just a step on the way to directing a movie. Many start directing videos or commercials, hoping to get the recognition to build a name and to direct a movie. It seems that even video directors admit the fact that a music video is secondary to the song itself.

In conclusion, although music video’s fans have tried to elevate this form of entertainment to the title of an art form, the music video is eventually just a work of commerce, destined to sell a product: the song.

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How To Put Music On Iphone

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 05:50:01 +0000

How To Put Music On Iphone
By Jonathan Webster

How to put music to iPhone is something that a lot of people are going to want to know as the weeks go by. The Apple iPhone is going to be a very popular piece of hardware, and if you’d like to know how to get your favourite songs on it, you’d better read on.

The iPod took the world by storm, and now we have the possibility of a machine which can integrate your on the move entertainment with your cell phone, and even provide access to the internet.

If you are new to the world of hand held entertainment systems, you will probably want to know how to get music from two different sources. You will want to know how to take the music from your own collection and put that onto your new iPhone, and you will also want to know how to access the huge libraries of music available on the internet. You will need a computer to do either of these, but it can be anything fairly recent. From the internet, you can get a software program which will make a copy of your CD music to your hard drive, and then you will need a connecting lead to effect the transfer to your iPhone.

The first step will be to get your existing music transferred. This will not take too long, as the software programs called “rippers” are capable of transferring music at much higher speeds than normal playback. If your hard drive is large enough, you can rip the music from all of your CDs in one go, before transferring it.

The biggest challenge of how to put music to iPhone is with finding reliable sources of music to download from the internet. Many new people get caught in a very dangerous trap, by using P2P sites. These are against the law, and the quality of the downloads is really poor. Often files are not what they are supposed to be, and they can easily contain malware which can be dangerous to your computer. Join a reputable site, where you can pay once for lifetime access, and you will have a completely different experience.

By joining a good site like this, and ripping the tracks from your existing CDs, you will soon find that you have plenty of music to transfer to your iPhone. Connect your iPhone to the computer, use iTunes to make the transfer, and you will learn the last part needed in how to put music to iPhone.

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Blank Sheet Music

admin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:57:21 +0000

Blank Sheet Music
By Kristy Annely

It is not possible to play or sing through memory for musicians who love to play an instrument or love to sing. Sheet music contains musical notes that are written for musicians to interpret. Musicians can write their scores and play them in an orchestra or band.

A blank music sheet has two formats, on which music can be written. Such music sheets are commonly used for piano and organ music. Two basic formats are treble staff for the right hand side and base staff for the left hand side. Treble staff is for higher notes, and base staff is for lower notes on the keyboard. Treble staff has music according to five lines present and is the base staff. However, both offer different key positions for a player. Notes in between the lines are represented as F A C E on the treble staff. Notes on the five lines are named Every Good Boy Deserves Favor. Notes on the bass staff lines are called A C E G or All Cows Eat Grass, and on the five lines they are represented as Good Boy Deserves Favor Always.

A blank sheet score may also have all kinds of notes, and tones that include sharps, flats and naturals. Flats range from one to seven, and sharps also range from one to seven. Naturals are used to disqualify the music if it has sharp or flat notes and makes it the natural form of music called C Major Scale. Music sheets also have variations that include Major and Minor depending upon the scale of music.

Most musicians use blank music sheets to compose music. Beethoven’s music sheet was recently auctioned for almost $300,000. The most amazing part of music played and revived over and over again is blank sheet of music.

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iPhone Music Downloads - 7 Tips to Find the Top Service for iPhone Music

admin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:56:52 +0000

iPhone Music Downloads - 7 Tips to Find the Top Service for iPhone Music
By Davion Wong

iPhone owners are getting excited about loading their new gizmos with iPhone music downloads. After all, the phone-cum-digital portable media player can store up to 100 songs easily and allow a playtime of up to 24 hours of audio. This article will show you 7 hot tips to find the top service befitting of your new toy when it comes to iPhone music downloads.

1. Free or Paid

Freebie seekers probably would argue with me on this. There is nothing wrong with wanting free iPhone music downloads. Who doesn’t anyway? But the trouble is that free websites that give you music for free are often associated with exposure to viruses, spyware and adware when downloading media files there. Our phones are too new and precious and to risk exposing them to these harmful elements is a No No.

How about downloading each iPhone song for $0.99 or more at online music services like HMV, iTunes and so on? People wouldn’t mind if it is only one or two song. But if we are going to load up at least a 100 songs or soundtracks, this is going to be expensive.

There are now services that offer a lifetime membership for a flat fee of lower than $49.95 to access unlimited iPhone music downloads. These are the real gems!

2. Variety & Size of iPhone Music Library

Music lovers probably have their preferred music. You may not like pop but to another, pop may really sound heavenly. If you love all kinds of music, go with the services that offer multiple genres from Rock, Hip Hop, R&B, Classical to many unheard music genre. Several top sites now offer over 100 million media files including music videos, TV shows and even movies and games.

3. Download Interface

This is a key feature that must not be overlooked. For easy navigation, the interface must be simple to use and does not take long to search and find your music files. One way to get a rough idea is to see how professionally done the site is and to read comments of existing users.

4. Software Applications for Download and Conversion

Several of the more established services are providing free software applications required to download iPhone music as well as movie and video files. They also provide the conversion software needed to convert movies and music file formats into iPhone-compatible formats. The top services also offer you a free DVD conversion software that transfer movies from DVDs to your iPhone.

5. Fast Downloading Speeds

Make sure that the download speeds are fast. Music file sizes are about 3-4 MB per song. Assuming you are downloading 20 songs at a go, the service must not limit your bandwidth usage by slowing down the speed. This is what some poorly run B-grade services do.

6. Safe Download Environment

Some services do not provide good secured environment with a high level of security and safety when you download iPhone music downloads. The last thing you want to worry about is adware, spyware and viruses that could make their way to your computer because the music store refuses to buck up on its system architecture.

7. After-sales Customer Care and Support

Many services just want to make more money. While they promise a 24/7 technical support to entice you to join them, they are hardly around when you need them to help troubleshoot when you face difficulties. Thankfully, there are a few reputable ones who can deliver an excellent level of after-sales service.

Look around and use these tips to find a good service for your iPhone music downloads. Want to know which services score well in every aspect mentioned? Read up my iPhone blog.

Davion is an ardent lover of techno gizmos. He runs a hugely popular iPhone review blog where he reveals where you can find unlimited iPhone downloads for pennies.

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