YouTube with its vast assortment of music videos is one of the best locations on the Internet to find and listen to music. The overall site layout is on the other hand not super ideal for listening to music, especially if you want to listen to multiple songs. The only option to do this comfortably is to create a playlist and move all the music videos that you want to listen to into it. In addition, you would have to preview the videos to make sure that they are available.
Cantio is a relatively new service that is probably best described as a music frontend for YouTube. Guests who visit the website can listen to music and artist right there and use the search to find artists and music they like.
Registered users get additional features like playlist and favorites support.
Individual songs are played with a double-click. Users then need to pay attention to the small video window in the lower left corner of the screen, as it indicates if the music video could be loaded successfully. The video itself is shown in that small preview window while the music is playing in the background. A click on the video preview launches it in fullscreen mode in case you would like to watch the video as well.
Cantio offers artist and music pre-selections. A click on music displays the week’s most popular songs, a click on artist popular and hyped artists along with their discography if available.
Some of the information and charts are pulled from Last.fm. Search results can be displayed in list view with track names, artists and albums or in album view mode where the album covers are displayed.
Keyboard shortcuts have been added to make navigation and handling easier. Space starts or stops the current song, left and right arrows play the last or next song and up and down arrows increase or decrease the volume of the music.
The player controls are displayed at the bottom of the screen. Here it is additionally possible to use the slider to jump to a specific song position, enable repeat and song randomization.
Registered users have the option to create playlists which they can play over and over again.
Cantio does a few things better than YouTube. It filters results efficiently for instance so that only the right band, artist, album or song are listed in the search results.
It remains to be seen if the service will be online in one year’s time. Revenue seems to be solely generated by Flattr donations currently.
Cantio should be compatible with all modern web browsers. Just head over to Cant.io to give it a spin.
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gonna try when i get home. this days i was listening more music on youtube than mp3.
I really do not like that you have to sign in first.
do we need to sign in?? i dont want to try anymore….
When the signing up process isn’t even configured properly, that’s usually a bad sign of what you can expect. Every time I tried to enter the password box, it vanished. Yeah. Great online music player alright, lol
the same thing without registering – http://musicanchor.com
Good find, thanks
nahhh… I will keep on YouTube and the new Cosmic Panda interface…