Sunday, August 24, 2008

TinySong/Grooveshark - Listen to your favourite Music Online


So you might think, what is so new about listening to your favourite music online. You've probably being doing this for years. Well, TinySong not only allows you to search for and listen to your favourite tracks, it allows you to discover new music similar to the ones you search for.

There is no registraton, and anyone can listen to any amount of music. The main page has a minimalist design, with only the search box. Once you enter your song name, a list of matching entries will be shown. Select one, and a new url will be shown. Visit this url and you can listen to your track. The quality of the music is pretty good too, and it loads extremely fast in my SLT ADSL connection. Once you are listening to your music, there is an option called Autoplay, which automatically creates a personalized playlist based on your music taste.

In reality, the site TinySong is a frontend for Grooveshark.com, which is an online repository of music. You can sign up for free at their site and upload your music collection. After that, you can listen to it from anywhere with a computer and an internet connection. But Grooveshark is not as simple as that. They have built a social network around the music, where you can listen to what your friends are listening to, create and share playlists, and do many other things with your music. Once you upload your music at Grooveshark, it will be available for listening for you and everyone else at both sites without the need to login to the site. And I definitely recommend these two sites as worth visiting.

You can check these out at http://www.grooveshark.com/ and http://tinysong.com/

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yeah Grooveshark is great! However, I still didn't get used to this full flash interface, seems too... much, for me! I quite prefer a website like http://www.deezer.com/en which seems, by the way, to have a deeper catalogue! I saw on Billboard that they just signed with Warner!!!