Recently fewer and fewer people have been choosing free music downloads for iPods through file sharing networks. The reasoning is quite simple. Free iPod music on those file sharing networks is unreliable.

The Ugly Side of Free Music Downloads for iPod

Aside from the fact most of the free iPod music shared on networks like Kazaa are illegal, users have become annoyed with a few other facts of those free music downloads for iPods. Sometimes to songs don't complete. Sometimes the song downloaded isn't even the song they wanted. Even still, you could work around those facts, but there is one real stickler former file sharing users have finally had it with – quality.

Although download speed is generally excellent on free music downloads for iPods, users are leaving the file sharing model in droves because the quality of that free iPod music is unpredictable at best. At worst, the music may as well have been recorded a mile away from a live concert.


Switching to Free iPod Music From Membership Sites

Fed up with chancing legal trouble, finicky songs, and poor audio quality, these users are now switching to free music downloads for iPods through membership sites. Reason being the membership sites provide what file sharing can't – legal high quality downloads of the exact song they originally wanted.