Online Music - Listening and Buying
August 14, 2008 by Greg
If I want to listen to a song online, I’ll check a few sources. Usually I’ll look to youtube, then myspace, and randomly imeem, last.fm, or songza.
If I want to buy a song online, I’ll also check a few sources. It’s usually a combination of emusic, beatport, amazon, and direct from artists (radiohead,nin).
Anyone else using any other cool utilities?
Seeqpod.com - type in any song and they likely have it to stream online
mp3sale.ru - who doesn’t love buying deeply discounted music from Russia where pirates aren’t persecuted ; )
pandora.com - great for finding all sorts of new things to listen to. Still, i’ll still stick to buying CDs as long as i can once i’ve found things i like.
I’m a huge fan of Pandora, but I’m a subscriber to Rhapsody - I love that, but some people hate the “renting” of music. They list influences and contemporaries for each band, so you can really find stuff you like, especially since there isn’t a cost associated with more listening. I’d go broke if I had to pay through iTunes. mp3sale.ru sounds dope!
I share a Napster account with a few people. You can have up to 3 PC’s registered. So that comes out to 5 bucks a month. The advantage it’s integrated into Media Player, so you can make and save setlists as if it were your own music. I know people say, it’s not free, but it’s a convenient way to listen to anything jukebox style.
I still purchase full length CD’s, never online.
The only other one I can think of that’s not already listed is Mixturtle (http://mixturtle.com/). Functions like songza.