Tag: MUSIC DISCOVERY

YouTube has been a favorite place for music fans to watch and listen to music videos for a long time now. Along with official music videos, there are all sorts of treasures to be found, particularly when it comes to obscure live performances. It looks like YouTube is embracing the fact that it is increasingly being used as a music service, and has launched a new project called the Music Discovery ...

Last month I wrote about mufin.com's music discovery engine. Unlike traditional music discovery services like last.fm or the Genius Mode in iTunes 8, mufin analyzes the actual musical structure of a song. This is great for music lovers because it can really open up more opportunities to discover new bands. Co-developed at the Fraunhofer Institute (the creators of the MP3 format), mufin uses audio ...

As a music lover, one of my favorite innovations of the last five years or so has come in the form of music discovery services. Services like Last.fm, Pandora, Rhapsody and iTunes 8 have made it easy to find artists or songs that are similar to your musical tastes and preferences. The only problem with these services, is that they are based on limited databases (like the iTunes Music Store, for ...