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Tubalr for music discovery

If you're still looking for music to listen to, you might want to try Tubalr (which is pronounced tuba-ler apparently). Very simple - whack in the name of an artist or band, and the resource will find YouTube videos from them, or which are similar to their music. You can then create a playlist and listen along.

Echofiapp for better Spotify radio

If you like Spotify, but you don't like the choice of radio tracks they provide you with, try Echofiapp. Basically you open up Spotify, go to the app (on a webpage, nothing to install), and type in your favourite musical person, band etc. Echofiapp then works directly with Spotify and pulls up interesting tracks for you to listen to. You like like tracks, skip, ban them or pause them. It's not bad - I've been listening to it all morning and there's only a couple of tracks that I've disliked enough not to listen to. Since it's free and nothing to install - if you use Spotify, give it a shot.

MelodyTubes

Music Videos, Lyrics, Playlists.The Swedish Company Munax today announced the launch of  its new Music Service, Melodytubes. Melodytubes is a search engine with millions of indexed song texts  which may be connected to any number of music sources, regardless if the music is stored on servers on the local area network or on the internet.

With Melodytubes, music play & search is taken to the next level. Just enter a combination of anything you can remember – a string of lyrics, any part of the artist’s name, or any part of the song title – to instantly find the song you are looking for. Melodytubes’s extensive lyrics index and sophisticated song matching algorithms yield results so uncannily accurate that you will feel as if it has read your mind.

(From the press release)

shuffler

shuffler is a music discovery site based on blogs. Taken from the site: "Shuffler aggregates music from around the web by genre. So if you go to our home page you will see a list of channels. They are like radio channels but divided by genre. When you click on a channel we send you to a blog post and start playing one of the songs mentioned on that post. If you don't like it you can skip ahead or pick another channel from the shuffler bar on the top of the page. When the song ends, we send you to the next song on the next blog. Always on the same genre."

Friendly Music

Need some background music for a YouTube video? Don't want to run foul of copyright laws? Take a look at Friendly Music which lets you look for some music, listen to it and license the right to use it - for about $1.99. That's gotta be a snip!

Online Karaoke

Search, sing and share at cantanding.com. It basically grabs stuff from YouTube, and puts in the lyrics below. Neatly done, but doesn't strip out the original singer, so at best you're going to be singing in collaboration. Not exactly Karaoke.

Earwurm

Annoy yourself or a friend by listening to a scrap of music that then rattles around your head for the rest of the day. Here, try it:

Songza - just stop digging!

I used to like Songza which let me create folders of music to listen to. Of course, when I discovered Spotify it went out the window, and I didn't go back. I thought they'd have problems, because they were pulling music data off YouTube, and YouTube doesn't like that. Hence the details in the email that I got today: "Regarding the original Songza, we are currently unable to use YouTube's API, which allows you to search for and play any song on demand, but we want to assure you we are doing everything we can to resolve this issue and to have Songza back up and running asap. We will of course let you know as soon as there are any new developments with Songza and apologize for this inconvenience."

However, all is not lost - they have released two new free music streaming sites - Songza Radio and Songza sets. I would offer to give you the links, as they provided them to me in their email. Unfortunately, they don't work, as they just lead back to the main site which says nothing at all of any help. And besides - it's 'Available in the US only'.

Utterly pointless. Go away, close the company down and listen to Spotify instead, try out Spotiseek to find similar music to artists you like.

Blip tells you what your friends are listening to

Blip is a quick way to tell your friends what song you're into right this minute. You also find out what your favorite people are listening to in real-time — no need to refresh the page.

finetune - discover music

finetune. If you like Pandora and last.fm this might interest. Whack in the name of a musician or band and see what it pops up with. I've been listening for a couple of hours and it's about a 50% 'yes, really nice' 25% 'ok, I can cope with this' and 25% 'run away!'

See what you think.