Directory of Online Music Services

Interesting new directory of “music 2.0” services, which includes the following useful categorization:

  • Music Services – places like iTunes and Rhapsody where you can purchase or subscribe to music
  • Music Discovery – places that help you find music – these fall generally into 3 subcategories:
    • Social – wisdom of the crowds sites like last.fm, iLike. Goombah and Qloud
    • Content-based – recommendations based on the music content – Pandora, SoundFlavor, MusicIP
    • Expert based – Music recommendations from people – music blogs, irateradio.com
  • Music Experience Augmentation – sites to make your music listening experience more enjoyable – music dashboards like sleevenotez or Snapp Radio
  • Playlist Sharing – this includes playlisting sites like MusicMobs, fiql and Webjay
  • Music Metadata – add to the data surrounding the music – MusicBrainz, All Music Guide, Gracenote

The content hasn’t been fleshed out on a lot of those pages, but still it’s a good start and one to watch.

Via Lucas Gonze

Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

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