November 3, 2011
Has Spotify taken over your life and transformed your music listening habits for good? If you’re totally addicted to Spotify, but have playlists across numerous other music services online, there’s a fantastic little tool you should make use of right now called Playlistify.
October 7, 2011
One of the great things about Spotify is the sheer amount of music it gives you access to. Every artist, song, and album is pretty much at your fingertips. Since there is so much, however, sometimes it can be difficult finding songs you might be interested in. But what if you could find quality music that has been pre-rated for you?
July 1, 2011
Do you know what the problem is with YouTube as a music-listening platform? It wasn’t really built for that, and because it wasn’t, it lacks a few key things that a typical music platform would have, like the ability to save music playlists. YouTube does technically have a playlist feature for music, but I’ve found a simpler way to do things, and it’s called SongSprite.
March 2, 2011
Browse thousands of TV shows, movies and podcasts from one interface, and keep track of your favorites. Navi-X, a plugin you can add to XBMC and Boxee, brings a variety of content from around the web to a single interface you can easily browse from your remote. A content aggregator made up of user-contributred playlists, Navi-X [...]
October 2, 2010
There is no shortage of ways to listen to music online, whether it’s by creating your own playlists on popular websites like Grooveshark or listening to online radio stations. Playlistnow.fm is a service with a new spin on how to choose what to listen to online. Rather than listen to music based on your mood, [...]
August 18, 2010
If you don’t have a lot of time to keep up with all the latest music you like, finding fresh tunes can often be a challenge. You might also have a rather a larger collection of albums and songs in your iTunes library, but you have very little time to organize and create your own [...]
February 28, 2009
In my younger days, one of my favorite ways to pass the time was creating mixtapes. I’d spend hours flipping back and forth between tape-decks A and B, painstakingly coming up with the perfect soundtracks for gaming or just hanging out. I recall coming up with some wacky (or just plain wack) combinations. When I [...]
December 5, 2008
actionext describes itself as a music discovery site. Yup, yet another one. But it wouldn’t appear on Make Use Of, if it didn’t offer something new and exciting that made it worthwhile. Now what would that be? In fact, I would not describe actionext as a music discovery site. It’s different and maybe even better [...]
November 25, 2008
Music is an indispensable part of our culture and with the internet we have almost instant access to a variety of genres and artists like never before. So is it any wonder that free music services flourish? Are we saturated, yet? I don’t think so. Soundflavor combines well known music discovery formats with a few [...]
