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TuneCrank lets you listen to independent music and rank it
TuneCrank is another crack at a familiar problem: How do you make people listen to unfamiliar independent artists, and help the good stuff float to the top?
Uvumi tries to do this, and so does Bandcamp in a completely different take. TuneCrank is yet another attempt, with a stress on bare-bones simplicity and minimalism. It's basically just a player with "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" buttons, and a third button that looks like the ever popular "rock hands." There are no genre tags; the playlist at the front page has hip-hop, indie, elecronica, and more – it's a whole mush of styles. The most voted tracks float to the top.
I like the visual simplicity – it's reminiscent of Muxtape, but sadly, not as chic.
You can filter by artist, and the service appears to have around 150 artists or so. It's not the best online music experience by a long shot (not for the artist, nor for the listener), but who knows – you might find something you like right on the front page.
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Subscribe to commentsJoshNov 23rd 2010 3:18PM
Sounds like a lot like thesixtyone before the big "f' you" to the users. Just... not as good.
SteveFeb 13th 2011 7:10AM
Thing I like about tune crank is it plays the songs in sequence. Just pick the song you like and it will start playing it. When it's over it plays the next. Makes sampling songs easy while you work on other things. If you find a song you like you can check out who made it, or skip the ones you don't. http://slapstart.com/2011/02/tunecrank/