Posted in: Musicouching by uttini on July 3rd, 2008 | 9 Comments
Looking for some websites for great free and legal music? Here are the best of the best.
Free legal streaming music is a great thing to enjoy when you are searching for a particular song, working, or just plain relaxing. Listed below are some of the more interesting live streaming music sites that are definitely worth checking out. Some of the sites below operate as live streaming radio stations, and some allow you to program your own virtual station, or even to search for a specific song or artist. Check out all of them, since they are all free!
Jango is one of the easiest to navigate streaming sites. You can select an artist that you like, or you can even select a genre. The site will create a custom station for you on the fly and serve up music in your genre. It also suggests artists that you may be interested in based off of your currently selected genre. Great site to find some new songs in a favorite style.
Songerize is one of the cleanest and easiest of the music streaming sites to use. Upon loading the website you are presented with two search boxes, Song Name and Artist – thats it. You type in something to search on (either one) and hit play, and away you go. Its great when you want a no-nonsense web site to play a specific set of songs that you already know in advance. The only real annoyance to this is that you have to keep entering a new song title after every song has finished playing. Can’t be beat when you just need to listen some of your favorite songs.
Last FM is very artist focused. You are best served on this website if you already know the name of a band or artist that you are interested in. There is a very deep catalog of music, and the music plays right though the web site, so you don’t need any special software. Not everything is available. For example if you select the Beatles you will only get a preview because the full Beatles content is not licensed by the site. They also sell MP3 downloads on this site. One really nice thing about this website is that you don’t need to have an account to listen to the live streaming music.
Steve - We7 July 3rd, 2008 at 9:29 am
Great list of sites, for your UK readers, our site We7, is an ad-funded model which offers high quality streaming and downloading for free.
randall July 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
To Ed re: “It seems to be alot weaker when you are looking for a specific artist. “
Actually Slacker has very powerful artist search functions – just go to Slacker, type in the artist you want and hit search. Plus Slacker provides full band/artist bios and album reviews for each track.
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Great Article.
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I recommend turntable.fm for US citizens, only works for them but a really good site. jampri.com is more social, works with facebook account and your social graph