social music sites
People powered music site
Qloud , is a music search service with social features. You can search for artists, songs, keywords, styles and more, with Qloud serving up a list of tracks that you can preview on the site. You can then save the tracks to your favorites, email the results, link to the page or buy the individual tracks on iTunes, AOL Music Now or Amazon. There are all kinds of social filters, too – like how recently the tracks have been rated, how highly they’ve been rated and which tracks have been tagged or played the most. You can also narrow your search based on the demographics of the listeners.
It’s a neat service that looks incredibly slick, although the interface takes a lot of getting used to – I constantly forget to clear my old search before conducting a new one.
Here’s another good reason to stop buying useless, DRM-laden music from the labels. ProjectOpus is a music community along the lines of the excellent PureVolume, connecting fans and artists at a local level. The service seems to be free for everyone involved, and ProjectOpus makes its money from paid downloads. From the site:
Project Opus™ is an online music community designed to support artists, fans and local music. It is a single point of contact for discovery of new music. We have two goals:
1. make it incredibly easy for bands to self-publish music, find their audience and then get paid for the sale and licensing of their music, and
2. make it incredibly easy for fans to find music they love and support the artists that make it.
To give them their due, ProjectOpus is one of the most forward-thinking players in this space: they allow users to create their own sharable playlists and export them to Webjay
MusicHawk has many of the features you’d expect from a music-themed community – profile pages, networks of friends, messaging, a band search, favorites and list of the most popular and active band pages. You can add MySpace slideshows, music players, maps and other Flash-based add-ons to your page
MusicHawk is a decent attempt at building a social network around music, but somehow they seem to have forgotten the most important thing: the music itself. Band directories are fine, but I expect most users would rather listen to the music than read band profiles.
And ofcourse there is finetune. Love that shit
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~ by samsbay on April 23, 2007.
Posted in social music sites
Thanks for the review of Project Opus.