Free digital music service comes to Heights Libraries

Heights Libraries cardholders can now download free music MP3s through the Freegal music service. Freegal  is an online music source that offers access to hundreds of thousands of songs by a wide variety of artists in the Sony Music catalog. Sony’s catalog includes more than 50 labels, in genres ranging from rock and country to rap and classical.

“Freegal is a great supplement to our existing CD collection,” said Jennifer Greene, music and adult services librarian. “Plus, if there is a long waiting list for a particular CD, chances are customers can find that artist on Freegal and download some songs while they are waiting for the CD.”

The service is available through the Heights Libraries website, so cardholders can download songs anywhere they have access to the Internet as long as they use their Heights Libraries card—cards from other library systems will not work. Users can save songs to a flash drive if they are at the library, or save directly to their own music library if they are at home.

Current limits are set at three downloads per week, and users’ counters will set back to zero each week on Monday morning. If customers do not download their three songs in any given week, they lose those three free downloads—in other words, the service operates on a “use it or lose it” model.

For more information, and to give Freegal a try, visit www.heightslibrary.com.