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I was telling someone recently about a website where you can listen to the music for free, and if you like it you can buy it. Or license it if you want. It's very interesting system. Of course, the problem is that I don't remember who it was I was telling about this, because the weekend was so jam packed with things, it could have been just about anyone.
So here's the site: http://magnatune.com/
What I like in particular about this site, as opposed to say, Pandora (which I also enjoy and use) is that I can stop, and change songs, rewind and relisten, as much as I want. Whereas Pandora really is much more of what it says it is: internet radio. Though you can skip a stinker of a song, you can't really go back and relisten to a song you liked *right now*. You have to wait until it just shows up naturally in the play list again.
With Magnatune, you can listen to what you are in the mood for, when you're in the mood for it. Or you can listen to one of their "radio channels." Mind you, it doesn't do what Pandora does. At least not as far as I can tell. So you can't tell it that I love Anonymous4 and it won't give you tons of suggestions based upon it. It won't create custom radio stations tailored to YOU. But it's got an eclectic collection, particularly of music types and styles I haven't so far found on Pandora.
Props out to Wil Wheaton for introducing me to the site.
Hopefully the person that I was speaking with about the site will come across this, and will now be informed. If not, hope the rest of you go check it out. It's cool stuff.
So here's the site: http://magnatune.com/
What I like in particular about this site, as opposed to say, Pandora (which I also enjoy and use) is that I can stop, and change songs, rewind and relisten, as much as I want. Whereas Pandora really is much more of what it says it is: internet radio. Though you can skip a stinker of a song, you can't really go back and relisten to a song you liked *right now*. You have to wait until it just shows up naturally in the play list again.
With Magnatune, you can listen to what you are in the mood for, when you're in the mood for it. Or you can listen to one of their "radio channels." Mind you, it doesn't do what Pandora does. At least not as far as I can tell. So you can't tell it that I love Anonymous4 and it won't give you tons of suggestions based upon it. It won't create custom radio stations tailored to YOU. But it's got an eclectic collection, particularly of music types and styles I haven't so far found on Pandora.
Props out to Wil Wheaton for introducing me to the site.
Hopefully the person that I was speaking with about the site will come across this, and will now be informed. If not, hope the rest of you go check it out. It's cool stuff.
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