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Whether you want to just listen to Christmas music online or want to download free Christmas music MP3 files to create your own MP3 album, “Feels Like Christmas” is the site you have been seeking.

This site has collected, and continues to collect, legal artist submitted Christmas MP3 files for your holiday listening pleasure. Just follow the music link from the main page of the site.

The free Christmas music is presented in four categories: Traditional Vocal, Traditional Instrumental, Contemporary Vocal, and Contemporary Instrumental. Just click on the music links to listen online or right click and choose save-as to download each file.

In order to keep things simple, we’ve broken the music down into four categories. When we use the words “traditional” or “contemporary”, we’re referring to the authorship of the song. For instance, you’ll find contemporary arrangments of traditional Christmas songs here. “Traditional” songs are those in the public domain. “Contemporary” songs are those written in the last century or so:

Traditional Vocal: Vocal versions of traditional Christmas favorites. Any musical style.

Traditional Instrumental: Instrumental versions of traditional Christmas music. Mostly piano and guitar.

Contemporary Vocal: Original contemporary compositions about seasonal themes.

Contemporary Instrumental: You may not know these songs, but they were inspired by the spirit of the holiday season.

The mission of the Internet Archive is to build an Internet library to preserve content for future generations and for historical research. They have expanded well beyond just storing Web pages. They are rapidly building an extensive archive of digital media which now includes over 70,000 audio files.

The quantity and variety of free audio content is incredible. Here are some examples of of audio collections you may find of interest:

Berkeley Groks Science Radio
If you have even a spark of scientific curiosity, this would be great listening for the daily commute.

78 RPM Records
Early twentieth century culture and technology meets the early twenty first century. These recordings are fascinating and surprisingly enjoyable. No need to check your speaker cables, remember stereo was not invented until the 1930’s and not commercialized until the late 1950’s.

Live Music Archive
This is a huge collection of live concerts and other live audio. Some selections are available as MP3 files, but many recordings are only available as lossless audio files. They have information on what you need to listen to the lossless files.

Open Source Audio
These are various types of audio files that have been contributed by the creators. Many use a Creative Commons license which often allows others to use them in their own creations.
The above is only a sampling of what is available in the Internet Audio Archive.