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.
Pandora is perhaps one of the best known free live streaming music sites on the internet. Pandora grew out of the Music Genome Project. The idea with this project is that the system will monitor your likes and then create a custom station which will match those likes. In my testing it seems to work reasonable well. A nice thing about this website is that you can type in a music type as well as an artist and it will attempt to build a station to your likes. For example if you like Piano music, you can type in Piano and it will create a station of piano music. In some competing sites you would have to select a piano music composer in order to get the same result.
Songza’s great claim to fame is the depth of its catalog. This site’s variety of music is amazing. Songza has licensing agreements with most of the big major music companies so you can usually find something to listen to. The interface of the site is also very google like. You can be listening to a song well within three clicks of the mouse. The site also has a featured songs section, along with top played or requested songs.
Slacker has a very unique folder structure to its online music player. It is a great site if you are looking for a streaming station in a particular genre. It seems to be alot weaker when you are looking for a specific artist. While the interface is polished, it does have some annoying limitations to the free streaming service, including limiting the number of tracks you can skip.
Musicovery uses a feelings based system to help you select artists to listen to. You can pick your mood – weather you want energetic or positive, or dark and calm, and any graduation in-between and it will select artists and songs based off of those preferences. The mesh that it displays on the screen makes it easy to discovery new artists that you may like. In short this system on this web site is fun to explore and play around with.
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