You want to add to your music library but funds are running low and you don’t really want to buy a whole CD when you only want a couple of songs anyway. So what do you do? Burn free music downloads and grows your library with the songs you want.

Using your computer, the Internet and some blank CDs you can be on your way to a library full of tunes that keeps your ears happy for hours on end.

First, you need to locate yourself some free music. With the World Wide Web at your fingertips your free music library is waiting for you to locate it. Using any one of the many search engines available type in free music downloads and follow the leads to a variety of free music.

It may take some time and deep searching to find the music you want for your library. While you are searching, take the time to sample artists you haven’t heard of or genres you don’t normally listen to, you might find a gem hidden among them that you didn’t know about.

There are other sites that you can find free music on that won’t show up in a search engine using free music as your search term. Visit the artist’s websites, they will sometimes offer free downloads as a way of getting you to listen to their music.

You can also visit radio station websites. You don’t have to limit yourself to radio stations you know about. Do a search for radio stations and sample their websites. Many radio stations offer free downloads and playlists.

Once you have downloaded it, you are ready to burn your free music. It’s a good idea to make sure you have enough music to make a full CD. Some people also like to arrange the music in their folder either by song title, artist or genre.

Purchase blank CDs at your local office supply or value mart store. CDR are the preferred disks as they cannot be added to and are more compatible with nearly all CD players.

Use your media player software located on your computer to burn your music to the CDs. Computers typically come preloaded with a media player such as Real One, MusicMatch Jukebox, or Windows Media Player. If you don’t have a player, you can browse the internet for a one to download.

The steps to burn your free music download are basically the same across the board. Open the software and locate your music. Select the songs you want to burn to your CD. Some software programs say ‘burn’ and some say ‘create disk’, choose the appropriate tool and follow the steps provided. Within a few short minutes your CD will be ready to go.

Burning free music downloads is a rewarding challenge. With the Internet readily available to provide access to music as artists make it more available free and computers able to burn a CD in a few minutes time, your music library can easily amass hundreds or thousands of tunes in a short amount of time.