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Library Offers Music Downloads
Free and legal
service expected
to be popular
For everyone who ’sever heard a
song on the radio and wanted to add
it their collection, wanted a hit single
off an album, or just wanted to ex
plore the work of new musical art
ists, Multnomah County Library has
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library’s website at multcolib.org/
freegal. This service is free for all
M u ltn o m ah C o u n ty L ib rary
cardholders, and all downloads may
be kept permanently.
“Providing this service is a re
flection of the library’s priorities,”
said Director of Libraries Vailey
Oehlke. “It gives our patrons ac
cess to more of the materials they
want, in a format that is convenient
and accessible while being highly
efficient for the library. We antici
pate that this will be a very popular
new service.”
Each library cardholder can down
Vailey O ehlke
load up to three songs per week (156
a new, free online service.
per year) and, unlike with checked
Freegal Music, a downloadable out materials, keep the songs for
music service like iTunes and oth ever. All that is needed to access
ers, is now available through the this service is a Multnomah County
Library card number and PIN.
Freegal Music provides access
to the Sony Music Entertainment
catalog, which includes hundreds
of thousands of songs, more than
100 genres of music, and more than
50 record labels.
No special software is needed to
use the service, and there are no
digital rights management restric
tions. Downloading o f songs is
completely free and legal for library
cardholders. Songs are downloaded
in a universally compatible MP3
format, so they can be saved to any
computer, mobile device or MP3
player, including an iPod. Songs
can be downloaded at home or at
computer stations in libraries via a
USB device, such as a flash drive or
MP3 player.
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