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Filtersage: Matching New Releases to Past Movies and Records

Filtersage is a music and movie discovery site that matches new releases to past movies and records. It is a community powered website of movie and music lovers who loves to share their knowledge with everyone. It is a way of discovering new music starting from the ones that you already love. The site allows you to explore other releases that are connected to you present favorites.

You can join in by making your own pairings, or you can comment and vote on those made by others. If you think that a particular connection is accurate, you can easily vote it up or make a comment if you think otherwise and give your own suggestion. This will make it easier for the ones who want to discover new and old music and movies.

Discovering a new movie or record is already fun as it is. Discovering movies that are new to you and is connected to your past favorite makes it even mo interesting. If you know two movies or records that you think have some sort of connection or similarities, share it with the community and help them discover what you know. If you happen to be looking for new movies to watch or new records to listen to, head over to the site and check out their suggestions.

Tags: Filtersage, Movie Discovery, Movie Match, music discovery, New Movies, Old Movies, Record Match

Two Reddit-Like Ways of Discovering Music

If there is a Twitter-like music site, then there’s also reddit-like social music voting sites.

CherryPeel

CherryPeel is one of those music discovery sites which mimic a social media site. The main page of the site lists the most popular songs voted by users. You cast your own (up/down) votes. You can listen to the featured tracks by clicking the play button on the left of the song title. To add a song to the bottom of your ‘current playlist’, click on the song’s title and select ‘add to current playlist’. You can queue up the entire page of songs by clicking ‘add this page to current playlist’. You can then publish that playlist which makes it available to everyone in CherryPeel.

The service is also equipped with social networking feature. You can invite friends to join and add other CherryPeel members as friends. You can join CherryPeel as an artist where you can submit your original songs or as a listener. Don’t worry signing up as a listener if you’re a bit shy to share your creations. You can always change your membership status if you decide to do so. The artist can also choose if they’d like listeners to be able to download their songs.

TheSixtyOne

The SixtyOne is another great place where you can discover music. It also functions like a social voting site. Like in CherryPeel, TheSixtyOne comes with genre category filter and if I am not mistaken, they also feature album art thumbnails next to the featured songs.

Playing a song is as easy as clicking the title of the song. You can easily add a track to your collection by clicking the favorite button. Some of the songs in TheSixtyOne can be downloaded, some you must purchase and others are just available for listening. Participating in the community will earn you experience points which are similar to karma points on other social voting sites.

Both music sites are a great place to discover new music. The choice is yours.

If you know of any service similar to CherryPeel and TheSixtyOne, feel free to add the link at the comments.

Tags: cherrypeel, Music, music discovery, thesixtyone

StumbleAudio: Stumbleupon for Music

StumbleAudio is the Stumbleupon for music lovers with over 2 million available tracks for you to stumble. Judging from the name of the site, the idea was generally taken from Stumbleupon. StumbleAudio is like the “I’m feeling lucky” of music search sites.

StumbleAudio does not function like Stumbleupon in every way. You do not need to install a browser plugin in order to use the service. You can do your music stumbling in the StumbleAudio page. This is managed by flash, since stumbling music is so much different from stumbling webpages and websites. It only takes up a small space and a little flash. You have to register for an account though in order to rate tracks and save them in your profile.

You can choose a genre that you wish to stumble. Once you start stumbling, a random music will automatically play along with some information like album cover, artist and of course the title of the song. You can also browse and play the songs in the stumbled album and rate the track according to your liking. A thumbs up and thumbs down button (Like in StumbleUpon) is used for rating tracks. There is also a quick share button which will automatically copy the track URL to your clipboard.

This is another great site for discovering music semi-randomly. A search bar is provided if you like to filter your stumbles by the keyword(s) you enter. The service also allows you to make quick purchase of the playing track from iTunes, Amazon, PayPlay and CD Baby. Check it out and start audio-stumbling.

P.S. And, yes, artists do get paid when their songs are played on StumbleAudio.

Tags: Music, music discovery, recommendation, songs, stumbleaudio, stumbleupon, tracks