The 100 Greatest Music Sites
The greatest music sites on the Internet. This is "the essential music sites" list. If you have any addition to this list contact me. (Regularly Updated - by me).
17-1-2008: Since the list is growing and growing I have decided to split it into pieces, this saves some loading time and is also easier to maintain:
 1. Music Communities: Last.Fm, MOG, MyStrands,… |
 2. Upcoming bands / Free Music / Web2.0: download.com, amiestreet, magnatune, garageband, sellaband, ilike, ijigg, jamendo, peoplesound, purevolume, isound, discollective, audio-democracy, indie911, indiesolo, artistserver, acidplanet, tuneshout, staump, epitonic, … |
 3. Web Radio: Pandora, Musicovery, FineTune, Accuradio, Mercora, Slacker, Bluebeat, RadioBlogClub, Live365, Shoutcast, Loudcity, … |
 4. Your Music Online: blogmusik, nutsie, anywhere.fm, lala, mediamaster, simplifymedia, orb, mp3tunes, … |
 5. Russian Music Shops: AllofMp3, Mp3Sparks, Alltunes, GoMusic, Mp3Search, Isound, Mp3City, IOMOIO, MusicMP3, MP3 Ninja, Mp3Sugar |
 6. Music Videos: Yahoo, Musicmesh, MTV, MetaTube, Chime.TV, … |
 7. Magazines and Reviews: Critical Metrics, Rolling Stone, PopMatters, RateYourMusic, MusicNerds, … |
 8. Live Music: etree.org, wolfgangs vault, fabchannel, jamnow, moboogie, gruvr, … |
 9. Music Search: Midomi, Musipedia, Espew, Seeqpod, SearchTheBeat, AudioBaba, Songza,… |
 10. Music Encyclopedia, Wiki, Reference: Discogs Mahalo, Progressive Archives, ProgressiveRock, ShoftShoe, AllMusic, … |
11. social networks and music:
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MySpace Music - Do I need to tell this to anyone? The bands and accompanying music on MySpace is dazzling. You can listen to songs, socialize with the bands or simply just keep track with the current MySpace Music Charts so you can discover e.g. Esmee. |
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Multiply Music - This is a little hidden gem on the Internet which I probably shouldn’t share, but searching via Multiply’s music search gives you about any music album you want which you can download or listen to online. You can download here forever. |
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Hyves Music - The music section on Hyves is another massive one. You can interact with (new) bands, listen to their songs, become "friends" with them and interact with them via their blogs. |
Upcoming Interesting Music Portals
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We7 - Another interesting newer site is We7 which lets you download music from new bands for free, there is no DRM but… the free music has an add at the start of the songs. Let’s keep an eye on this interesting one. |
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Jango - Daniel Kaufman from Jango send me an invite, since its still in closed beta. You can start off with filling in an artist you like and it plays music you like based on that artist. Next step is to click on related songs you like more and rate the songs so your taste within the community can become more determined. When you click on a face of a community member you can tune in to his radio channels who probably also adore the music you like. You then can send an IM directly or afterwards to thank him for listening to his or her radio channel to make instant contacts, discuss music and move into the community, discovering even more music you like. Auto-Music-Community-Building. Oh… shit… this is going to be addictive. I haven’t even scratched the surface here, like customizing who you want to see in the faces panel (online, geography, gender, age), etc… this is almost dating by music preference LOL! GREAT site. (maybe it will become the greatest once out of beta). The adding of artists to your own radio channels is also a big festivity of recognition of names of artists. Anyhow. This will become THE music site, without doubt.It also got 3 invites for interested. So the first 3 to leave me a comment hereunder for an invite will get one (dont forget to leave your e-mail address). |
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MeeMix send me an invite for their beta programm. It yet again, allows you a very different approach on discovering music or creating your favorite channels.You can start off with creating a radio channel based on your favorite songs or artists and listens to an excellent list of suggestions often discovering very good music you didn’t know about before, where you can move sliders like "surprise me" and "pulse" to determine the mood you are in. I tried it and it really brought me a lot of songs from all kinds of periods that I didn’t heard before (!) but… which I liked, so where did I develop such a large gap in my music knowledge? This was one of the coolest things on my first short impression: the many unknown songs which I truly liked! Another good thing is the community formed around the songs. You can "meep" a song, share your thoughts but also favoritize a lot of songs from a particular artist at once.Basically: touch a few buttons, sit back and let it play throughout your days, great!
I also got 7 invites for interested. So the first 7 to leave me a comment hereunder for an invitie will get one (dont forget to leave you e-mail address). |
Cover Art
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Albumart.org - Just search for an artist and you will get very high quality album covers returned. It’s a simple Amazon mashup, but it does the job. |
Music Blogs
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Largehearted boy - is a music blog featuring daily free and legal music downloads as well as news from the worlds of music, literature, and pop culture. |
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ShoutMouth - Ben has send me ShoutMouth a newer music site Full of updates, lists and so to see many updates a day to keep your finger on what’s happening in music. |
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MusicisArt - Katie left this piece of art in the comments. What an awesome composition!… musicisart is my own personal reflection of the way i feel music, art and words. growing up, i always immersed myself in a pair of headphones and loved to write. my favorite thing to do was make lil journals full of lyrics and quotes adorning the pages with special pictures and glitter, feathers, sequins, jewels? anything that i could use to decorate. the pieces that i shared, whether they were my words or a favorite musician, they became apart of me and it felt important to turn that into a meaningful cartharsis. now years later, it feels nice to have a medium to begin to give back to what its given me. |
Other
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this French site lists a lot of resources for free music. |
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Indaba Music, Kate Pokorny: "IndabaMusic was launched this February by two Harvard ‘05 alums who were looking for way to empower musicians on a global scale. They founded their website, which allows its users, a niche community of musicians and industry professionals, to interact with one another and upload various forms of media. Users can upload tracks that they can then access, edit, mix, and mixdown from any computer in the world. They offer their usres a free Protools-esque production console to work within. Users can find new musicians to collaborate with online and create what is a new form of global/world music.". The idea behind the site and following/listening to the mixed songs is fabulous. If you don’t know it you should see it. |
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Samantha Murphy TV music - Samantha Murphy herself send me her absolutely stunning weekly music show. Every week news artists are starred which are presented by Samantha’s podcast radioshow in deeply colorful and entertaining words whereafter you can listen to songs of the album of the Artist starred together with interviews of the artist. This site deserves a primary spot on this list, I’m sure that you will return weekly once you’ve seen this site. For me: the artists she picks are 100% my taste, what a great find! |
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PodBop - is a concert database that matches events with mp3s and gives you them in a podcast so you can discover concerts on the go. It’s global and anybody can add an event or artist mp3 (send in by Taylor). |
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SongStuff - John Moxey writes me a summary which is probably better than I can write: "Can I suggest including www.songstuff.com in your list of sites? Songstuff covers songwriting and musicianship, recording and music technology and the music business, with a broad ranging forum, lots of articles, glossary, charts, and a new collaboration service ideally suited to pro and semi-pro musicians and producers." |
Still to be reviewed: jamglue, uplayme.com, goombah.com, etc…
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August 14th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
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August 15th, 2007 at 3:17 am
Hi nice list. But you might want to add on your list the http://www.wikimusicguide.com. It is a music database created for music lovers. it is composed of thousand pages of artists filled with facts and trivia. these pages are contributed by their fans in various parts of the world, of which can also be edited by other fans. just try it and you’ll surely like it. thanks a lot!
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August 16th, 2007 at 4:24 am
http://www.seeqpod.com
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August 16th, 2007 at 6:07 am
http://www.Indie911.com
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August 16th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
discogs.com– online music database which began as an electronic music site and has evolved to include all genres…
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August 17th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Check out http://www.nuTsie.com. The site allows you to listen to your iTunes library and playlists from any computer, share playlists with friends, and discover new music!
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August 18th, 2007 at 1:09 am
Among the over 60.000 pageviews last week on this page, many e-mailed me superb new music sites. I added among others nuTsie (send by Christina), Anywhere.fm (send by Sam), audio-democracy (send by Tim), IndieSolo (send by Mike), the WikiMusicGuide (by Anna) , Wolfgangs Vault (send by Gloria), SearchTheBeat (send by Jason), RateYourMusic (send by Clayton) thank you for sending me these sites and new addictions! Feel welcome to send me more or place them in the comments. - cheers - Cogmios.
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August 18th, 2007 at 1:18 am
best streaming vid site
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August 18th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Check out http://www.sceneparty.com as well, thats fantastic
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August 18th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
http://www.drownedinsound.com
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August 19th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
http://www.deecoo.de
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August 19th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned http://www.allmusic.com, an excellent music database. Though it is not user-updated like Discogs, artists are grouped by genre and sonic characteristics. Between those two sites, one can find almost anything.
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August 20th, 2007 at 12:20 am
I think you should n’t forget the austrians and germans most popular free music website:
http://www.neppstar.net/cms_ne...../index.php
it works similar to the GNU GPL and uses the license of free contents.
have a lot of fun with this really free music
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August 20th, 2007 at 12:47 am
i think one of the best sites out there that reviews music is:
http://www.therockczar.com
It features numerous articles on great bands.
Underrated and worth a visit.
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August 21st, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Wow. Lots of good sites. I’ma check them all out.
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August 22nd, 2007 at 12:26 am
specialized in electronic music: http://www.beatport.com, sinply the best one
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August 22nd, 2007 at 5:31 pm
check out Shepizzle an Indie music blog with reviews and music videos. Also, recommendations for similar bands.
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August 26th, 2007 at 4:19 am
My music blog, Largehearted Boy, lists ten free and legal daily music downloads every day:
http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/
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August 26th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
AllMusic.com, as mentioned above, is an online music staple for information on all genres of music. I also found SoftShoe’s site a good music information resource: http://www.softshoe-slim.com/, and Music.com can also fill in some blanks.
There are also specialty sites I use often for information on specific music genres:
Progressive Rock: http://www.progarchives.com/ and http://www.progressiverock.com/
Melodic Rock: http://melodicrock.com/
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August 26th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Musicians resource full of FREE content including, Artist interviews, songwriting articles, tutorials and much more. Plus a great forum!
http://www.songstuff.com
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August 27th, 2007 at 12:45 am
a great site
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August 27th, 2007 at 2:44 am
I agree with Aaron, Allmusic.com has a great music database that is kept up by AMG. I use it all the time. Also http://www.pitchforkmedia.com is a great site for indie music news/reviews. Great list though!
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August 27th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Great List. Thanks for sharing.
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August 28th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Hi, you should add the site http://www.fabchannel.com to the Live Concert Portals section. It’s a great site with lots of concerts and a great interface.
Great site btw!
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August 28th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Check out http://www.epitunes.com/Events for live music listings. You can listen to the bands playing that night to see if they are worth checking out, very cool. Good music news section too.
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August 29th, 2007 at 1:09 am
* 18-8-2007: added Artist Server and Music sections of social networks like Multiply and Hyves, added we7, acidplanet, tuneshout. 25-08-2007: Added Largehearthed boy blog, 28-08-2007: epiTunes, fabchannel, bandspace, radio.blog.club, Jam Now, Indaba music, Lala. thank you for sending me these sites and new addictions! Feel welcome to send me more or place them in the comments. - cheers - Edward
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August 29th, 2007 at 2:13 am
you forgot http://criticalmetrics.com/
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August 29th, 2007 at 2:18 am
you forgot http://n90.mediamaster.com/player/mediamaster.jsp
you can upload all your music and play online.
A very cool feature is that you can add any of your music to a stream directory and then you can listen to it as a real http stream — instant shoutcast or icecast like station!
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August 29th, 2007 at 2:35 am
There’s http://www.bluebeat.com/, a high-quality online radio with 320bps mp3s. This really is digital radio done right.
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August 29th, 2007 at 2:42 am
http://www.streampad.com/ is a great way to play mp3 links that you find on a webpage. Just prepend http://www.streampad.com/play/page/ to add any page with mp3 links to you streampad account, or prepend http://flash.streampad.com/playerL.swf?list= to get an instant player. What’s cool about this site is that it also creates a dynamic RSS feed for the webpage, the feed is updated whenever new songs appear on the webpage. You can keep up to date and listen to new music either with your streampad homepage or through the feed reader of your choice.
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August 30th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
It would be good to list sheet music sites for musicians too.
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September 3rd, 2007 at 1:20 am
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September 3rd, 2007 at 4:22 am
So where is eMusic.com on this list…
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September 5th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
You forgot to include Grooveshark
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September 5th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
http://www.musicisart.ws
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September 7th, 2007 at 4:08 am
I think http://www.staump.com should be in that list!
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September 7th, 2007 at 4:15 am
you forgot http://www.Moboogie.net
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September 10th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
You should add gruvr local live music mapto your list of great music sites- it’s for live music.
It figures out where you are on the first click…
then lets you keep track of all your favorite bands so you know when they come to town without having to constantly check their pages…
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September 11th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
3-09-2007: added critical metrics, emusic (banner at top), MediaMaster, BlueBeat. 11-11-2007 added SMTvMusic (WOW great site!), skreemr, Mahalo, Shoutmouth, SongStuff, PodBop, Chime.Tv (supertip), Jango (absolutely addictive, thanks for the invite Daniel), MusicIsArt.ws, Staump, MoBoogie, Gruvr, ProgArchives, ProgressiveRock, SoftShoe, AllMusic, … hmmm where should i put streampad, cant log into grooveshark, theres more following from my inbox (cant process it)! thank you for sending me these sites and new addictions! Feel welcome to send me more or place them in the comments. - cheers - Edward
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September 13th, 2007 at 6:44 am
Great stuff thanks for sharing.
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October 2nd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Check out Bandsintown.com for concert discovery. It uses your favorite artists to recommend local shows that you might like and it also reminds you when you favorite artists are coming to town. Super simple concert discovery.
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October 17th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Music Search and Music Downloads…
Sorry, it just sounds like a crazy idea for me :)…
October 28th, 2007 at 5:22 am
WOW!! thats a really big list! Thanks!
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November 5th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Ok guys and girls, I added some new websites to the page, there are some more in my inbox, so a new update will follow soon. Also: in the new update I’m going to remove all ads (since noone clicks on them anyways haha) (but somehow people find pages with ads on them more trustworthy, I really have no clue why) and try to think of something useful for the right column. Maybe a long list of unknown upcoming artists and songs which may be of interest to you.
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November 13th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Not strictly a music site, but a way to enjoy music blogs better. When viewing a page with links to mp3 files, use this bookmarklet to create the Yahoo page player at the top of the page. It inserts the flash code directly into the page and will let you play all the songs on the page.
IYP
I call it IYP for Insert Yahoo Player, here it is as a link, drag it into your Firefox bookmark bar or save as favorite in IE:
IYP
Here’s a screen shot, click on if for full view:
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November 13th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Sorry, the comment system on this blog doesn’t take the HTML that I added to my previous post. So here’s the raw bookmarklet, email me if you don’t know how to install.
javascript:s=document.body.insertBefore(document.createElement(’iframe’),document.body.firstChild);s.id=’playpage’;s.language=’javascript’;s.width=’99%’;s.height=’300′;void(s.src=’http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mig/playlistbadge/20.swf?autoload=1&autoplay=1&playlist_url=’+location.href);
and here’s the screenshot:
http://content.screencast.com/....._image.png
rickaccounts AT gmail DOT com
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November 13th, 2007 at 12:13 am
have you checked out Streampad yet (comment 32)?
it really is very good, and will cache feed items for any mp3 site that you give it.
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November 13th, 2007 at 1:16 am
you gotta try grooveshark, i’ll send you an invite.
you can upload all your local mp3’s via a non-obtrusive mini-server and play them anywhere from your webpage.
email me and i’ll send the invite
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November 13th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Hi Rickdog thanks for your comments. Yes Grooveshark member since begin of September, I will add it soon, I though I had but maybe that update went wrong.
IYP…phhhew… which category should that go under???
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November 18th, 2007 at 1:09 am
IYP = browser enhancement, bookmarklet, or widget
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November 22nd, 2007 at 4:40 pm
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November 25th, 2007 at 9:12 am
I discovered some sites were lost while publishing in the past so… let me add some sites again in the list… ongoing…
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November 25th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Simplify Media, http://simplifymedia.com/, is personal web music server that allows you to serve your mp3s directly from your computer over the internet, like Grooveshark. It allows you to play your music collection from any computer using plugins for iTunes and Winamp.
Orb, like Simplify Media and Grooveshark, is another personal web music server. It’s a media server that also supports videos and images and can even feed you live TV stations. In addition, it can access any folder and file that you configure it for making it a web document server.
Oboe is a service from http://mp3tunes.com/ that uploads your mp3’s to their server and allows you to play your music from there. You get unlimited storage, but can only upload 10MB per file if you don’t have a paid account. Paid subscriptions ($40/yr) allow you to upload any size file and also backs up your paid DRM Itunes files. A neat feature of Oboe is Sideload, an extension that allows you to store any mp3 that you find on the web. It’s called Sideload because Mp3tunes grabs the file directly without having to go through your computer. This is a great way to squirrel away music that you run across for later listening.
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November 25th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
rickdog: thanks, added!
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November 27th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
more sites:
http://community.loudcity.com/ - social music sites with real stream broadcasting. You can pay to have your own stream, or just join groups and listen to other people’s stream broadcasts.
(Note that MediaMaster has free broadcast streams.)
http://www.jamglue.com/ - online mixing. Create your own tracks and mixes, or remix others.
Features a rich Flash mixing console (e.g. http://www.jamglue.com/mixes/1.....emix/remix)
http://www.uplayme.com/
quote: “uPlayMe is a service allowing people to find new music and meet new people. We do this by keeping track of the music you listen to on your computer, and sending that info to our mothership. There we do fancy math to find out other users who love the same music you love. We tell you about these other users, and you can check out what they are listening to (and hopefully find something new), and you can send them a message.
uPlayMe also allows you to post the music you play on your social network profile or blog. This way friends can see what you play and even hear samples.”
http://www.goombah.com/
quote: It scans your iTunes library, finds people that like your style, and makes recommendations from their collections.
http://www.ijigg.com/
Social music site, upload songs, create playlists, widgets for individual songs and playlists.
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November 30th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
http://www.deezer.com/en/
A Flash site where you can listen to wide selection of popular music, create playlists and share them with widgets. Has excellent file uploading capabilities.
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December 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 am
A great feature of MediaMaster that you did not mention is the free streams that it provides. These are real Icecast or Shoutcast type streams, and lets the user become a real web DJ. You get a stream for your Radio playlist and one for your most recently played songs, but in addition every playlist that you create has a stream.
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December 2nd, 2007 at 4:04 am
Hi…I Googled for names of lakshmi, but found your page about 00 Greatest Music Sites…and have to say thanks. nice read.
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December 2nd, 2007 at 1:52 pm
rickdog: thanks for the additions!
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December 8th, 2007 at 5:33 am
check this site out for an extensive list of music2.0 sites:
http://rocketsurgeon.squarespa.....directory/
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December 12th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
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January 3rd, 2008 at 9:26 pm
With over 200 video songs lessons, http://www.video-tabs.com is the #1 source for free video guitar lessons and tabs. Video-tabs.com combines quality video lessons served up by YouTube with accurate easy-to-print tabs so that you can more easily learn your favorite songs.
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January 15th, 2008 at 12:04 am
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January 16th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
HELLO,
IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A SPECIAL MARKER, THAT IDENTIFIES THE ONLINE MUSIC STORES, THAT ALLOW THE DOWNLOAD OF SOME COMPLETE SONGS, BEFORE HAVING TO DEPOSIT ANY MONEY ?
FOR EXAMPLE, ALLOFMP3, MP3SPARKS AND IOMOIO, HAVE GIVEN ENOUGH MONEY ON SIGNUP, TO BUY SOME ENTIRE SONGS, JUST TO TRY THE SERVICE.
THANK YOU.
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February 1st, 2008 at 1:02 am
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February 9th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
feel free to visit my site at alternapop.com. (indie rock, modern rock, brit rock, shoegaze, post-punk)
chris’s last blog post..my slacker custom radio station…
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April 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
grande amostra de site.obrigado.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Good list Edward, a few more for my bookmarks, thanks! Could I make a suggestion of http://www.internet-radio.org.uk/ for classic internet radio stations. Theres thousands of stations covering all genres. I use the site a lot. Take Care, Jim.
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