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 [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

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 [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

If you think radio you either think of the good old fashioned radio or Internet radio, both with little to no interaction and user contributions. Jelli tries to change that by offering Internet radio stations that are run by its users. It basically works by allowing users to vote for songs with the most voted [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Youtube has been one of the prime locations for music buffs around the world to view music videos and listen to music. Many record companies and individual artists use Youtube to promote their products. Users who have been searching for music that is distributed by the major record labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music and [...]

Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video

Many modern media players like Winamp, Windows Media Player or iTunes display cover art and other information about the music that is currently playing in their interfaces. The same is true for cell phones and hardware mp3 players that usually also come with that option. There are however a few problems related to cover art [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Jamendo is a music community where artists share their music with the rest of the community. Users can download and play the songs without having to pay money to do so. The service has an index of more than 27000 albums to chose from and the social networking elements like tagging and reviewing make it [...]

Categories: Music and Video

Services that make use of the vast video and audio archive that is Youtube are springing out of the ground more recently in this year. YouScrobble is the latest service that is combining Youtubes video archive with the information provided by the music service Last.fm. This combination alone proves to be very effective. Users who [...]

Categories: The Web

If you are looking for music chance is that you find it at Youtube. It really does not matter if you are looking for something new, old, rare or popular as Youtube provides access to millions of different songs from artists from all over the world. Several online services have already used that vast repertoire [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Online Services

The Godfather is a feature rich music manager that supports extensive tagging, audio format converting, playlist management and renaming options that has a slightly higher learning curve than many other music managers. The learning curve can be fully attributed to the program’s interface with it’s incredible amount of tabs, switches and options. The interface is [...]

Categories: Software, Windows