It's likely that you have got one of the followings: iPod, iPhone, iPad, Mac. While iPad is mainly for videos and iPhone for telephones, we mostly use iPod to listen to music. Although it's convenient to purchase music from iTunes, there are ways to get music for iPod free. Here I collected a list of sites to download free music for iPod Touch/Nano/Shuffle/Classic, which work for iPhone 5s, 5c, iPad, iTunes (Mac/PC) or even MP3 player as well.

Also, we can go to iTunes store for free music. But free songs provided by Apple iTunes are very limited. Smart guys also think of using YouTube to fetch free MP3 for their iPhone 5s (in the future) or other iOS devices. If you want to do so, this YouTube downloader will be a good aide. More conveniently, you can go to the following top free music download site list to download MP3 songs free to your iPod Touch or any other iOS. I have tested sites below, which are safe and reliable except for very few ones (I have marked as riskly in the "Note" field). What's more, many offer free music download without registration required.

Best sites to download free music for iPod, iPhone 5s (5c/5/4s/4), iPad, iTunes, MP3 Player legally

Name	Alexa Rank	Registeration Required	Note
Amazon Free Music	7	Yes
Archive Audio and MP3 Library	196	No	Comprehensive free-resource site, limited audio resources in ZIP (for VBR) and OGG format.
MP3Skull	532	No	Also known as "Pillage" or "Tubity". Right-click the download button and choose "Save as".
Last.fm	1028	No	Easy to use.
MTV	1069	No	Very limited free songs.
Sound Click	7217	Yes
mp3Base	8725	No	A rising site with nice quality, very rich MP3 library and clean interface. What's more, no need to register to download.
Stereo Gum.com	11621	No	Failed to find a download button when testing.
Jamendo.com	13153	No	Easy to use.
Pure Volume	13199	Yes	Failed to find a download button when testing.
Free Music Archive	25536	No
Noise Trade	34635	Yes	Offer email address to download.
MP3.com	37500	No	Program error when testing.
Y100	304090	No	Lead to iTunes at last...
mp3ify.com	414415	No	Have to input something to search first. Click "mp3ify" to download, succeeded to download after several auto trials.
Made Loud	435974	Yes
Stereo killer	509306	No	Batch files download supported. Can't download a single file when testing.

Do hope you guys will find one or two sites useful from the above free music download site list. If there is any other site overlooked, please feel free to let me know by dropping a comment below. Any reshare, repost or +1 will be appreciated as well.

iPhone 5s and 5c users can also check this list of sites to download free music for iPhone 5s and 5c.

Transfer downloaded music to iOS and clean up iTunes music library

Whether you download the free music to your iTunes on Mac (Windows) or to an iOS device (iPod, iPhone or iPad) directly, you can use iTunes to transfer the sideload music from one to another. If you do not think iTunes easy to sync, imElfin iTransfer will be a good alternative to transfer files between iPod, iPhone (5s), iPad and PC/Mac more easily.

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In case you feel sorry for the messy iTunes (music) library, why not try Tunes Cleaner for Mac to clean up your iTunes library effortlessly? All issues including duplicate songs and incomplete song album/artist/genre/metadata info will be fixed within very few clicks. Refer to this post if you want to delete duplicates in iTunes on your Mac.