Most of us define ourselves and others by the music that we listen to. So why not take your music to the next level. I mean, with the internet nowadays, there was almost inexhaustible means of listening to your favorite music and finding new music. So in this video, I am going to show you my favorite internet music websites.
The first set of website that I am going to show you are MP3 search engines. The first one is called SkreemR that you can find at www.skreemr.com. And this is a very simple MP3 search engine, you just type in the name of the band and click search and it will give you the search results and you can play the MP3’s from directly within those results and share them on YouTube, Facebook, things like that.
The next website is called songs.com and this is another MP3 search engine, but it gives you a little bit more options of different things to do with the MP3’s. So if you search for a band, it will bring you back all the search result and you can play them from between the browser as well or you can add them a play list and create a play list of all the search result. And it also gives you the option to ember these songs as well, as you can see over there to the right of the screen.
Now this website is called mixtape.ne, an evolved MP3 search engines, here’s one is my favorite. Not only because of the really cool interface but if you do a search for a band, double-click on it, it’ll start playing it there and it will give you the album cover, kind of like iTunes or in that respect. And you can also add play list just like songs, just drag some songs directly to that play list and start creating a bunch of play list. And also, it gives you the opportunity to embed this play list that you’ve created as well. And you can also search for a YouTube videos, things like that.
Let’s say that you’ve got the song that you really, really like and can’t find it on in any of these MP3 search engines but you want to share it with your friends and you wish that there was a way that you could just upload the song, send your friends the link and then they can play it from within their own browser.
Well, these next couple of websites does exactly that. The first one is called soundcrowd.com. And basically, what it does is that it allows you to upload a single MP3 to their web servers and you can put in track information, things like that. This is really good especially if it’s a song that you created yourself and you want to share it with the public. But, they also have a private option if you just want to share with one or two people and then you can just upload it. And send your friends who are–whoever you want to share it with the link. Or you could also where it has an option that you can also search for MP3’s that other people who have uploaded to SoundCrowd and played them from within the browser as well.
The next website is called playlist.io and it’s by the makers of drop.io which a very popular uploading program. And they not only allow you to upload one MP3 but they allow you to upload many MP3’s and create a play list out of them that you can link to or send to other people. So, it gives you the option of adding a username and password if you want to come back later and add more songs to it. You can add up to a hundred megabytes of songs to this play list and it just–it gives you a link that you can share with other people as well. So you got the music that you like to listen to. You got your favorite MP3’s but you’re getting tired of listening to the same things over and over again. Well that’s what–is the next website that comes into play. They allow you to find new music based on what’s popular or based on songs that you currently like or even based on the current mode that you’re feeling at that time.
The first website is called wearehunted.com, and it shows you the 99 most popular songs of the merging artists or songs that are searched from the internet for that week or for that month. And you can sort it by either of the song or the artist themselves, and it just gives you a list that you can play from right within your browser and you can just scroll to the list and play all the different songs right there. And you can also sign-up for their newsletter to keep up-to-date about what’s new.
The next website is called sourcetone.com, and what you make about is that it allows you to play music based on how your feeling. You can just click on what you’re feeling from the wheel and it will play the similar music.
This next website is called twisten.fm, and it allows you to search twitter for posts about MP3 as it allows you to play those MP3’s from the list. And if you have Twitter account, you can just sign-in and it will allow you to search for your favorite band or favorite song that you might be currently listening to and it will give you a list of results to see if your song is there and then you can post that directly to Twitter from your browser.
The next website is called pandora.com, and it’s one of the more popular ways to find a music. It finds music based on what you currently like and what kind of you listen to. And it allows you to give more information about the album and the songs that you listen to if you like them.
Similarly last.fm provides kind of the same service of giving artist information based on the music that you currently listen to. It just kind of has a different interface. But both of these websites or US-based. So if you’re not based in the US, these are “dot com” as in excellent website that provides the same service and has a lot more options as well.
Now I’m sure if there was a song that you heard on the internet that you really, really lied to your’. You’d probably a way to download it. But I’m going to show you a few websites that allow you to download MP3’s free of charge. The first website, I’m sure you’ve heard of it. It’s called amazon.com. And their MP3 list contains a whole bunch of free songs that are available for download. And you can find a direct link to this list and the video comment.
The next website is called freemusicarchinve.com, and they offer free in open source music that you can upload if you have some or download it.
The next website is the South by Southwest Music Conference website and they allow torrents that you can download. The 2009 music torrent has 5 gigabytes worth of music.
The last website I’m going to show you is my favorite, it’s called grooveshark.com. And it kind of combines the elements of all the previous websites that we’ve looked at. You can search for MP3, you can upload your own MP3’s, you can create play list, you can embed these play lists, you can view similar artist. You can post to Twitter, Facebook, your own blog, different things like that. And it just gives you a whole realm of different possibilities. You can even create widgets that you can embed into your website for people to play. So this is by far my favorite website and I’d highly recommend you checking it out if you like music.
Now before I let you go, I just want to update everybody that I’m experimenting with new video format so please leave me your feedback if you like this video format or if you think I should go back to the old video format. And also for my next video, I’m going to be revealing some different types of web apps. So what I want you guys to do is tell me what your favorite web application are. You can do that either in the comments below or just visit the tinkernut.com forum and I’ve got a voting poll that you can use to vote for some web apps or suggest your own.
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