Music Services
From WebServices Wiki
Contents |
Internet Radio
Last.FM is the world's largest social music platform. It leverages each user's musical profile to make personalised recommendations, connect users who share similar tastes, provide custom radio streams, and much more.
Live365 gives individuals and organizations a "voice" to be able to reach a global audience, while offering radio listeners an unparalleled choice in music and other audio content. Through easy-to-use tools and services, anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can create his or her own Internet radio station.
Slacker is a music company. It delivers personal radio that is customized for every listener. Slacker is effortless to use and the music is accessible at home, in the car, or on the go.
Deezer offers all kinds of music free of charge and legally. Here you'll find rock, hip-hop, jazz, electro and world music. Artists and rights owners receive a share of advertising revenue. Choose the music you from more than 2.5 million songs. You can keep updated on artists, albums, and songs.
ShoutCast Radio, the home of free Internet Radio. Tune-in to thousands of free online radio stations from DJs and broadcasters around the world. Start enjoying online radio with SHOUTcast Radio now in just three easy steps.
Finetune is a comprehensive music library with a proprietary recommendation engine. Enter the name of your favourite artist, and you'll get a playlist of related songs. You can browse artists, users, playlists and more.
Radio Paradise is an online radio station based on the listeners' volutary support.
Yottamusic -is instant access to over 3.4 million songs right from your web browser-playable anywhere you have Internet access.
FilterMusic provides the internet radio stations stream in high quality. They are filtered daily for uninterrupded play.
iheard provides an easy to use search interface and directory with thousands of stations. iHeard makes it easy for people to find their favorite internet radio stations. All stations are organized by genre, country and language.
Yahoo! Music - listen to Internet radio and watch music videos on Yahoo's music portal. It provides access to over 2 million songs.
AOL Music offers 200+ free online radio stations featuring XM Satellite Radio. AOL or AIM users can get AOL Radio free on your Mac with this simple download utility.
Music Discovery Tools
Musicovery - discover new music with this cool take on Internet radio.
TuneGlue is a music visualization tool with simple interface made in mind-mapping style. It's powered by Amazon and Last.fm. It's only disadvantage is that you cannot play music. Instead you can click on the name of the artist you choose, and view related artists, album releases, and news.
Dimvision MusicMap is a flash mind-mapping music application. Enter the name of the artist, and you’ll get related albums, not artists.
Gnoosic Music Map shows artist-based recommendations. Type the name of the artist, and you’ll see acloud of related artists. If the artists are situated close to each other, there’s a high probability that people like both of them.
Liveplasma uses the same mind-mapping model. If the node is large enough, the artist enjoys wide popularity. The colors show the relations between artists. Registered users can save their favorite artists.
MyStrands Playlist Mapping generates a map after you select a playlist. The node size stands for the popularity of the song. The most recommended songs are of darker colors.
MusicLens gives recommendations based on a number of characteristics such as mood, tempo, and gender, etc. You can limit your search parameters to specific keywords and get precise result. Unfortunately, their database isn't too extended.
Burst Labs allows to search by keywords, moods, genres, and instruments. browsing by artist is a bit complicated, since the search result are presented by the composer's names.
Musicmesh gives album-based recommendations using the audioscrobbler data. It allows to play videos and read reviews. There's also a link to Wikipedia and Amazon.
JSViz is an album recommendation apllication with a mind-map interface. Unfortunately, you cannot listen to songs. JSViz doesn't provide any links to purchase music.
Music IP Playground is a flash-based music application that allows you to look for related albums by the artist you specify. Its disadvantage is that you cannot see the relationships with the other artists or albums.
Music Search Engines
Audiobaba is a next generation music search engine that allows you to find songs by acoustic similarity. Until now, there was no easy to way to browse for new music.
FindSounds is a free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. It provides powerful features, yet is simple and easy to use, and suitable for all ages.
eSpew is a popular directly linked mp3 search engine. It's a free place to download great music.
Mp3Realm is an evolving search engine focused distinctively on audio in Mp3 format. Mp3Realm allows you to search for your favorite songs and clips, and filter them out by file duration. Your searches can be based on artist, title, genre or album.
Musipedia a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Every entry can be edited by anybody. An entry can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour.
SkreemR is a search engine for locating audio files on the web. It doesn't host any files, but indexes what exists on the publicly accessible reaches of the Internet. Its goal is to make this content as searchable and useable to the Internet community as possible.
Jamming
Kompoz is a social workspace for musicians. Use it to compose new music with other artists around the world. Got an idea for a song? Record a track. Upload it. Then invite others to add drums, bass, vocals or anything else.
Ejamming enables musicians to play together in real time as if in the same room even if they're far away from each other . It expands the community of musicians through a new meeting ground.
Indaba is an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places. It makes finding other people, and working on recording, mixing, or mastering projects easier. For fans, Indaba provides unprecedented access to artists and to the creative process.
Remixing
Splice is a place where you can find musicians from all around the globe. Make music with the world's most advanced online sequencer, complete with real-time synths and DSP sound effects. Add your sounds to the common library. Get rated. Get remixed.
Jamglue is a thriving online community for creating and personalizing audio. It lets you upload and record music, remix it online, and share your hot mixes with everyone. On Jamglue, it's simple and fun for fans to get involved with the music they love.
YourSpins allows to remix music from your favourite artists, share your mixes and meet other mixers, put your mix on your home page or blog, get ringtones from your own mixes.
Audio Conversion Tools
Zamzar is dedicated to helping you transform your songs, videos, images and documents into different formats. Its mission is to provide high quality file conversion for as many file formats as possible.
Media Convert is 100% free. No software is needed, and you don't have to register. You only need your favorite Internet browser. Your files are ready 7/7 days 24/24 hours. It supports a lot of formats.
