The advent of file based music sharing, selling and buying has opened the floodgates for aspiring and established musicians and artists globally.
On one hand, this is the best thing to happen to music lovers everywhere. We are no longer bound by commercial radio or behemoth record companies whose interests don’t go much further than the bottom line.
But on the other hand, we no longer have a filter–biased or not–to weed out all of the CRAP that’s out there.
I posted awhile ago about Pandora; a virtual music jukebox that plays songs based on the similarity or genre of whatever song or artist you enter.
Next in line is Musicovery. It’s similar to Pandora, but instead of the user entering a song or artist; you just select the mood (energetic, calm, positive and dark) and genre and POOF! A seemingly endless stream of GREAT MUSIC.
Some new, some old–but all good.
That’s pretty damn cool. I remember that waaaaaaay back in the day, Launch was like this. Before it became part of Yahoo (and ultimately Yahoo Music), Launch would dynamically generate a playlist based on your ratings of songs. It was actually surprisingly good, too. As a bonus, it would do the same with their then-impressive collection of music videos. Can’t wait to play with these!