The Best Music Downloading Apps for Android

It can be hard to choose your favorite music streaming app, but once you do, you’re hooked — at least for a while, anyway, until you’re onto the next best app. Sometimes, though, you want to download music to your phone. Luckily, there are quite a few alternatives to downloading music from the Play store.

If you want to download your favorite songs — legally and often for free — check out one of these music downloading apps below. One of these apps may just become your new favorite music app. At the very least, you won’t have to worry about a strong Wi-Fi connection for streaming when you’re downloading music to your device.

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Pure Volume

If musicians want to gain more publicity for their music, they can offer free downloads of their songs on PureVolume. Pure Volume helps you discover these under-the-radar artists by featuring songs, displaying top downloads, and noting popular and new albums. Plus, you can download MP3 songs without even creating a Pure Volume account.

SoundClick

SoundClick is a popular website because it gives users a directory of free music downloads from artists’ personal websites. These are artists who are giving away their music for free, but without SoundClick, you might not know all the artists who offer these free tracks. SoundClick also lets you search through music charts and genres for free downloads. You can also create custom radio stations of your music or download paid songs, too.

Jamendo

The free downloads on Jamendo are legal because the songs are available through Creative Commons. That means that the musicians themselves release their music. Jamendo helps you find unknown musicians whose music you might like through their radio channels. If you like a song, you can then download it. You can also search for new music by browsing through Jamendo’s popular downloads, new releases, and popular songs.

ARTISTdirect

Not every song available through ARTISTdirect is free, but you can find plenty of free music to download. However, the app does have pages of free music in multiple genres. Otherwise, ARTISTdirect also has streaming music to listen to, as well.

NoiseTrade

If you want to download an artist’s whole album, NoiseTrade is the place to do it. Again, artists provide their albums here, so they’re free and legal to download. NoiseTrade is an appealing place for them since users who download their music can tip the artists or promote their favorite new musicians to their friends.