SXSW does the mega-music download again

Posted by Daniel Stout on Wed 21 Feb 2007 at 6:07 AM

I went to the SXSW conference a few years ago in Austin, Texas, and had a great time. South By Southwest is actually three conferences — there’s film, there’s interactive (tech), and there’s the granddaddy music conference. It all happens each year in Austin during the month of March.

For the past three years, SXSW has been offering a download collection of songs by the bands who will be appearing at the conference that year. It’s a massive download of some 750 or so songs in MP3 format — and totally legal, natch. They offer it as a torrent, which is a shared download. You’ll need a BitTorrent client (here or here) in order to download this year’s 3.1 GB file, which contains 739 MP3 files. The torrent can be found on SXSW’s 2007 Toolbox page or directly here.

And let me just state for the record that these downloads are awesome! This is great music by some of the best up-and-coming and also established bands around. Fantastic stuff and free! If you want to find out about previous years’ downloads, check our entries from 2006 and 2005. If you’re a music fan, it doesn’t get any better than this.

Tags: bittorrent · mp3 · music · music conference · sxsw · torrent

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