How to download Microsoft Music Deals free albums from any country

On a couple of occasions we have commented here about Music Deals from Microsoft, an application that notifies us of discounts on music of up to 80% that those of Redmond offer in the Xbox Music store. In recent days they have even wanted to go further, offering 50 famous albums totally free. All this music is downloaded without DRM and with high quality (320kbps) so once we purchase one of these albums, we can play them wherever we want, and even we can download them again from our Xbox Music cloud collection.

The problem is that officially this promotion is only available for the United States, but it is still possible to download the albums, as long as we change the regional settingsof our PC and our Microsoft account. Therefore, in this tutorial we will explain how to carry out all the necessary steps to access the offers and free albums of Music Deals.

Change the computer's regional settings

The first thing we need to do is change the Windows regional settings to United States. With this we will obtain access to the United States music store within Xbox Music, which is the one with the discounts.

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To achieve this we must go to the Control Panel, click on Clock, language and settings>"

Change the regional location of our Microsoft account (and Xbox Live)

Later, we must edit our Microsoft account information, indicating that we live in the United States. This can be done in multiple sections of the account, but to ensure we get the correct results, it's a good idea to change it in all of them. The first section to modify is Personal Information, for which we must go to the address account.live.com/editprof.aspx The information must also be modified which can be done from commerce.microsoft.com/PaymentHub/Profile

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In some of these sections we will be asked for an address or phone number. There it is possible to enter generic data, as long as they have the format of real numbers or addresses. Apparently no verification is done beyond that. What yes, you must have a valid means of payment linked to this account, which can be a credit card or a PayPal account (even if we don&39;t go later to charge any charges on it)."

Also, as one of our readers reminded us in this comment, it is necessary to change the Xbox Live region, which can be done from this page.

Important: When you change your Xbox Live account location, we won't be able to reverse that process for 3 months. This change of region can have consequences such as cancellation of the Music Pass subscription in case we have one, or that certain Xbox Video content stops working due to geographic licensing restrictions. All these possible scenarios are explained in detail on this page.

Because of all these risks, it may be better to to create a new Microsoft account solely for the purpose of taking advantage of Music Deals

We are almost ready…

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Once we have a Microsoft account for the United States, we can download or buy the promotional albums without any problem To do this we must download the Music Deals application from the Windows Store, and click on the albums that interest us the most. Then we click on the Get it for free> button" "

We click Confirm, and that&39;s it, The album is ours It will be downloaded to the Music/Xbox Music/Purchases directory and from there we can move the songs where we want. Not only that, but we can also download them again from other devices through the Xbox Music cloud."

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Strictly speaking, the Music Deals application is simply a directory>search it directly in Xbox Music to download it, without going through the other application."

Of course, the account linked to Xbox Music has to indicate that we live in the United States, and the account used by Xbox Music is the one with which we have logged in to Windows Therefore, if we want to use a secondary account for the download (for example, because we don't want to have problems with the change of region in Xbox Live), we will have to create another user in Windows, download the albums from there and then move them to the user we use every day.