Using Freegal, at home, on Windows PCs with Player. Freegal is free and legal access to MP3 to download for your personal use. Freegal downloaded songs are DRM-free (no digital rights management restrictions) and will not expire. Music is from the Sony Music Entertainment catalog and includes a variety of music genres and artists. Each individual library card holder may download 3 songs per week. A new week starts Sunday at 9 p.m. Pacific Time.

Log in to the Freegal website. At the Pierce County Library homepage hover over the BOOKS/MATERIALS tab. Click on DOWNLOADABLE MUSIC

Click on the free music icon. When prompted, enter your library card number and pin/password.

Browse the music catalog. From the Freegal homepage browse by music genre, newly added material or what’s popular. Use the advanced search tool to locate a specific artist or song.

1 Download Music. To preview a song before downloading click on the play button. To download a song click on download now.

Choose Save and select where you want to save the music file. In this example we will save the song to the desktop.

Open . Drag your music file from the desktop and drop it into your Windows Media Player library. Use Windows Media Player to sync your music with your MP3 device.

2 Additional Tips and Tricks:

Freegal keeps track of how many songs you have downloaded each week.

To download a song that you have previously downloaded, within the past two weeks, click on Recent Downloads.

You may download a song up to 2 additional times from the Recent Downloads page. 3