The first step you should do is to find a website that provides this service. Ask your friends or colleagues for recommendations or use a search engine like Google or Yahoo. When you have found a music download website, read first the registration and the FAQ page. Since the procedures in downloading a song or a full album differ from one site to another, you have to carefully follow the ones indicated within the website. Beware of sites that have little or no information regarding the ways to get songs from them as these online resources may not be reliable and may offer no help when you encounter problems with the files you would get.

After reading the download details, you can then start searching for the songs you want. For this purpose, some websites have search fields where you can enter the title of the song and/or the artist who performed it, while others let you view a list of the music files they have within a set of categories. During this stage, you would normally be required to make a payment through your credit card or a particular electronic money transfer.