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What is an MP3? MP3's are compressed high quality(CD quality) music. A 5 minute CD track can be compressed at 128kb to a size of about 5mb, compared to the .wav file which would compress to file to 40mb! The MP3 is a real step foward in music(although some companies do not believe so). MP3's are not legal for you to permanently keep unless you actually own the CD, if this isn't the case then you only have 24 hours to keep the .mp3 file it must then be deleted. There are many different MP3 players, but the most common is Winamp . MP3 portable players now also exist, about the size and weight of an audio cassette and hold 2 hours of music, which can be expanded with FlashRAM cards. Portable MP3 players have no moving parts and therefore do not skip. This page has some links to useful MP3 search engines and MP3 players. NB there are no MP3 files kept on this site, nor are any MP3 files directly linked to.

The first major website distributing MP3's, this site has links to many international unsigned artists. Plenty of original music, plus the more well known artists. 8/10

Yet another MP3 search engine, pretty useful but nothing original.6/10

A very good MP3 search engine site, utilizes GNUTE, FTP and HTTP searches, finds most modern music. Very reliable. 8/10

In my opinion the best "non file sharing" website out there. Has all the music from all the styles, very rearely doesn't have what you are looking for. Great site, 10/10!

The best MP3 player anywhere, many different visual plugings, lots of different skins. Most customizable, easy to use player. 10/10.

Arguably the most publicized MP3 search engine. Napster utilizes PC to PC file sharing, having numerous central servers that store what MP3 files people are sharing. The best search engine on the web, has any song. Currently being sued by Metallica and Dr Dre and numerous other parties for breach of copyright. But still the best. 10/10