03/16/2007
Musicovery Leads Band of New Music Sites
I'm not usually the one with an over the top rave, but you have to check this thing out... Musicovery
The French team was short of cash and had to take it offline last June, soon after I blogged it on my little-used experimenting blog. (Yup, i'm blog-curious.) I was even starting to think i had been mistaken about how great it was. And more than one friend who didn't see it has challenged me on my effusions.
Well, I still like it. Even more than before. Sure there's an Amazon banner and ads, but they go away with the new option to pay for CD-quality sound.
Shouldn't
there be a way to hook this up with the new super-fast Apple
home wireless and get it playing through the house? (Well,
it's not Itunes, so not likely to have a solution from them.) It's
amazingly beautiful, useable, friendly (courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave and clean.) "Reverent" is is not, and that's
all that remains of my extremely short boyscout career
The relatively small dashboard lets you plot points and ranges for temp and mood, genre, decade, and to indicate whether you want it to return hits or not. Don't miss the ability to dive deep into any genre. Clicking any box expands it into another grid.ains of my brief stint as a boyscout as well.
After the Jump: Short List: Discover Music, Share With Friends. An incomplete list of sites that will tune you into new music and let you make and share playlists. Check them out, share your widget with us, let us know what you think, and how we might expand the music section along these lines.
Short List: Discover Music, Share With Friends
I've actually been looking at a bunch of music sites lately.
Inspired by the comments in the last few posts of our
music section, I've been keeping an eye out for ways
we might open it up for more participation and recommendations. Some
of the services below suggest interesting
possibilities for sharing playlists and such. There is at
least one really special thing about each of these, and one
might be best for you. I have use for a few depending on where i'm
listening, and who i'm sharing with. Every one has redeeming qualities.
- LastFM (Trusty. Reliable. Easy to explain. would have been it if all the rest hadn't happened.
- Pandora (Bionics. I've enjoyed my Massive Erotic City Attack mix, with hours of music that i can't put my finger on how, but just does sound like Madonna and Prince fronting UK electronica)
- Imeem (Sharing music on playlists with your friends. A whole Social Network.)
- Webjay (which truly changed everything)
- Faces (upload playlist and embed player somewhere like Multiply)
- Fine Tune (Expansive list of music with tons of remixes. Strange rules related to the industry requiring a certain number of songs on your playlist. They have a "lazy" option to fill your list if you get part way there...but while everything else about this site is slick and well done, that key option can mess up your mix with it's lack of sophistication.)
- Qnext (looks great. Just started trying out the just-available version 3.0 which allows you to "webcast" your stuff, allows peer-to-peer music sharing among friends combined with a or Meebo type multi-instant-messenger capability that bring Yahoo Messenger, Microsoft Messenger, ICQ and AOL/AIM into a single instant message window. The styling's nice too.)
- FIQL (amps it up and take it out all dressed nice, but somehow doesn't have the energy of W'Jay.)
- Beatport (though doesn'e necessarily fit with the others but is as beautiful as any and a great place to buy electronic and dance music)
Let us know what you think of these and any great ones I'm sure I didn't include. Many of these let you make a widget to share your playlist or stream your music from your own page or blog. If you get that far and want to share it with us drop me an email at mike at towleroad and we'll see about getting some posted on a page in the music hub. Here's one to get started...
Posted 3:15 PM EST by Michael Goff in Music, Music Recommendations, News | Permalink
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This thing is awesome! Thanks!
Posted by: Sam | Mar 16, 2007 3:34:02 PM
I passed the link off to friends and family. Nice!
Posted by: anon | Mar 16, 2007 4:05:07 PM
Best. Link. Ever.
Posted by: QuakerJono | Mar 16, 2007 4:06:04 PM
I can't wait to read the book. It will be fun to get the reaction of my own dear, Mississippi Sissy...Zeke...on the memoir.
Posted by: JT | Mar 16, 2007 4:20:17 PM
That is a fantastic music site. And I do not impress easily. Thanks for the link.
Posted by: chrisb | Mar 16, 2007 5:05:36 PM
Would it kill them to put some showtunes on there? Yes, I'm a big fat showmo and I like to listen to showtunes at work. Pity my cubicle mates, but give me some Sondheim.
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but is this website going to be affected by the new laws that will increase royalties that internet radio stations have to pay to rates beyond any of their budgets?
Posted by: Tim Wilson | Mar 16, 2007 5:33:16 PM
Love the musicovery site - music and visual-wise. Thanks for the link.
Posted by: designer | Mar 16, 2007 7:38:01 PM
Has anyone tried Goombah? They have the best music recommendations. And a radio player where you can download music for free - Will
Posted by: Will | Mar 16, 2007 9:01:13 PM
I don't know how I found you boys, and your magical links, but I shall never forget the day. That link is a magical music wand of delight pumping fresh giving life like a streak of lightening or a bolt of white heat. And it's free.
BTW you people are sooo gay.
Posted by: Daniel | Mar 16, 2007 9:02:28 PM
what an excellent music site - huge thanks to you guys for telling about it!
Posted by: pete | Mar 16, 2007 9:08:46 PM
As with mostly everything Apple doesn't do, someone else has done it for them.
So, to answer your question about streaming wireless audio through Airport, you can play any almost any audio from your computer by using a nifty piece of software called Airfoil:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/
It's cross-platform and your Musicovery music will stream through it easily -- iTunes, be damned.
Posted by: Norman | Mar 16, 2007 9:51:55 PM
if you want to play music wirelessly like you do through itunes, use the program AIRFOIL, it hijacks the airtunes signal and you can broadcast any audio from your computer over airtunes! works good for listening to internet radio and such but bad for youtube videos and things like that because the audio has a delay.
Posted by: matthew | Mar 16, 2007 10:21:54 PM
Great music site!
Posted by: goldend | Mar 17, 2007 1:38:09 PM
Okay, so now that your site has become my daily "must go to" site, you get even better! Pandora.com is amazing! So is musicovery.com
And the absinthe from your ad sponsor is real!
Posted by: Misterkevin | Mar 17, 2007 2:38:57 PM
Awesome stuff... but what's with all the typo's in your entry? That's a bit unusual for Towleroad.
Posted by: Paul | Mar 19, 2007 4:56:01 AM
There's no apostrophe in "typos". :-)
The US Copyright Board is making life hell for web radio stations like Pandora. See for example this article in the Washington Post:
http://tinyurl.com/235hop
Posted by: Mike | Apr 24, 2007 11:44:41 AM
Hey guys did you know that the currently hottest reggae singer Ava leigh who’s worked with the famous sly n Robbie ,Nick Mannesah ,and future cut has free music
You can download from her website which is avaleigh.co.uk come on and check it out.
Posted by: avaleigh | Nov 19, 2007 7:21:43 AM