Most music discovery services let you only play music that they have available in their databases or on their servers. That’s great and all but may be limiting at times. Ex.FM offers a solution. The web service at its core is still a music discovery service, with the difference that it will pick up music [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Shuffler.FM, Internet Radio And Music Discovery
One of the biggest strengths of music on the Internet is easy music discovery, something that the music industry still has not understood completely. Users find new music in Youtube videos, Internet radio stations and music blogs, to name a few. Shuffler.fm is offering a service that turns music posted on music blogs into Internet [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Last.fm Stops On-Demand Streaming
The music streaming service Last.fm announced earlier today in a blog post that they would retire their on-demand track streaming for customers in the UK, US and Germany. On-Demand playback on Last.fm was restricted to some countries and basically allowed users from those countries to listen to full-length previews of those songs. Last.fm radio streams [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Discover New Music With Muzic
The Internet has made it easier to discover new music. This is actually not limited to music as it is also possible to find new book authors and books, video games or movies that you have never heard before. We are concentrating the discovery in this report on music, more specifically music from artists that [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Youtube Disco
Find, Mix and Watch. That is the slogan of Youtube’s newest addition Youtube Disco. The new feature is basically a music exploration service. It begins by entering an artist, band or song in the search form on the start page. Youtube will then crawl its vast database and display a results page that consists of [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Music Business News
It can be hard at times to follow musicians if you are a fan of them: Where are they right now, when is their next live concert, when does their next CD come out, will they come to my town? Most people get their music business news from music magazines, band websites and music portals [...]
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Favtape
Favtape has received some news coverage lately and basically everything that can be said has been said about this website where users can share their favorited and bookmarked songs of their Last.fm and Pandora accounts. Well the service got updated a while ago and is now displaying the top songs of every year from 1901 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Tune into Pandora from outside the United States
Pandora recently announced that classic music is being added to their music database and I decided to take a look at the service and see if it still had this US only restriction in place and if it would be possible to access Pandora from outside the United States. I knew that it should be possible to access Pandora this way as long as the service that I would be using would not spill my IP but display its own which of course had to be from the United States.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Download any song from Imeem
I just discovered that it is really easy to download music from Imeem. I was searching for a song that I heard in Radio and the only hit that I received was a profile link to Imeem. I had to register to listen to the song online which I did but what I really wanted was to download the song I was listening to to my computer to put it on my mp3 player which happens to be my Nokia N73 mobile phone.