How to offer my album as a free download?

Actually, you could have started with CD Baby because once you put your CD there, they do alot of work for you...including putting you on last.fm. I have one CD there, and there are numerous sites designed to host music. One of the most common before myspace was used for bands so often (and I think it's probably better set up for larger amounts of music) is soundclick. (www.soundclick.com) It's free but you can buy "Premium" status which gives you options to have a prettier site. I still use it primarily.

Negoba wrote: Actually, you could have started with CD Baby because once you put your CD there, they do alot of work for you...including putting you on last.fm. I have one CD there, and there are numerous sites designed to host music. One of the most common before myspace was used for bands so often (and I think it's probably better set up for larger amounts of music) is soundclick. (www.soundclick.com) It's free but you can buy "Premium" status which gives you options to have a prettier site. I still use it primarily.

Well, you could have CDBaby put you on last.fm ... but in that case they also get 9% of the revenue. Last.fm is a website that allows artists to directly put their music there (that's not possible for iTunes, Amazon or eMusic, they only deal with distributors), so I would recommend that you keep your own entry at last.fm. It also gives you more flexibility, for example when you want to put up tracks that you don't want to sell (demos etc).