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YouTube is undoubtedly the best way to watch and listen to music for free. If you don’t have time to visit the site every time you want to hear a song, you can stream tracks directly to your browser using the brilliant Chrome and Opera add-on Streamus (streamus.com). This lets you search for and play songs on YouTube, and build playlists without having to open the site or watch any videos, effectively turning it into an unlimited free music streaming service and one without adverts, too.

To ensure you get the best sound quality possible, go to Options, Settings and set ‘Song quality’ to Highest. You can also choose to display your playlists in a browser tab rather than in the add-on, and search for tracks by typing streamus followed by the artist or song name into your address bar.

Sadly, Streamus isn’t yet available for Firefox, but the splendid add-on FireTube(http://bit.ly/firetube) also lets you stream songs from YouTube, create playlists and control playback using your keyboard. It offers useful options for viewing videos as well as listening to them, and for downloading tracks to your PC to keep forever. There’s also an Android version of FireTubIe, which costs €1.92

(http://bit.ly/firetubeandroid).