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Mercora is a free music broadcasting program that makes your music available so others can listen to it. No one on the network can download your music files, but they can chat with you. Using it is straightforward: you mark a folder on your PC as shared and any MP3, WMA, or WAV file in it becomes available for broadcast. There are over 50 categories of music available.

Mercora's downside? A few. The service is new, so there are a limited number of users logged on, which means few people broadcasting the music you may like to hear. Another annoyance is that many people broadcast their entire collection, which means that someone may start out with jazz and move off to country music.