Music Business News
Update: Cloud Speakers is no longer available. An alternative that you may be interested in is Bandsintown Concerts for Android which informs you about artists that play near a location you specify. In addition to that, it displays similar artists as well if you want to. End
It can be hard at times to follow musicians if you are a fan of them: Where are they right now, when is the next live concert, when does the next album come out, will they come to my town? Most people get their music business news from music magazines, band websites and music portals but it is still difficult to find the information that you are craving for.
Cloud Speakers
Enter Cloud Speakers, a music business news aggregation site that offers more than a slightly unusual layout and choice of color. Cloud Speakers displays music business news on its website. It has a vast database of artists and labels which can be followed on page, by email or RSS news feed.
Basically, what it enables you to do is follow artists, bands or labels that you are interested in to get up to date news whenever they are made available.
The service collect news, reviews, audio and video, and makes it available on the website. You can use these four main categories as filters, so that you may only get review news and not news, audio or video content news.
The audio category is a very appealing category on the website. Users can play the music that is listed in that category. The frontpage of Cloud Speakers comes with an mp3 player that shows and plays the latest mp3 posted on the site as well. (A similar feature is available on individual artists pages)
A source is provided next to each news item to read the complete news article or review on the original website. Although there are a few reasons why using Cloud Speakers might be a good idea there are some that stick out. The first is that it is possible to follow artists by RSS news feed or email update. That's indeed a nice feature if you are a hot blooded fan and crave for news on your favorite artists.
The second is music discovery. It is possible to play music on the website which might give a user the opportunity to find new artists that he likes.
It is interesting to note that Cloud Speakers is missing many of the social news portals features like commenting on news, rating music or making friends. That's a refreshing change for some users while others will probably miss those features dearly.
The warning message about AAC streams when you load streams is because you don’t have the free Orban AAC/aacPlus Player Plugin installed.
http://codecpack.co/download/Orban-aacPlus-Player-Plugin.html
Justin, thanks for the information.
does this support AAC ? or only mp3 streaming
I’d say it supports all pls streams but I have not tried that so cannot verify it 100%.
Thank you Martin for a most informative and viable solution (it allowed me to play streams from a Netherland internet radio station in my WMP)! Continued success to you!
Barnabas (USA)
Your steps’ recommendation is still valid until 7th October 2012.. Thank you very much !!
Thank you!
You must convert file.pls to file.m3u
because file.pls open with winamp and file.m3u open with wmp.
Hi
2017 still kicking on Windows 7
Thx a ton
Hey, even i can do it, i stumbled through it and it works great! The only instruction advice i will add as i had to figure this out, when the wmp box opens that says save or open the bar on right says wmp click that drop down and select “open pls in wmp” once you do that it will work . Took me quite some time to discover that as i am no computer expert by any means. Having said that, previously i had downloaded codec packages and something about aac. None did any good. This rocks, i listen to a lot of internet radio and a number of them have dropped flash player and getting wmp to work had been a nightmare. So many thanks for this great solution to another problem that Micro-Hell will not even address. Peace- Out
openplsinwmp came in a zip file. I unpacked it, and didn’t find anything that looks like an executable, and even the files in the “doc” folder were in a format windows didn’t recognize. I’m not stupid. you said it would open effortlessly. It didn’t. This a rabbit hole I don’t want to go down.