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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

MixTurtle: Music Search Engine that doesn’t Crawl

MixTurtle is a very simple music search engine that does its job well. It searches playable music in the internet which you can play right from the MixTurtle page. The service is pretty quick considering that its mascot is a turtle.

The design is very basic as well as the playable search result. It only displays the song title and the artist. There is no play button. If you want to play a song, just click the search result you want to play and the music will start right away. If you are listening to a song/music, you’ll have to control the volume from your speakers or desktop. You won’t find any album cover or extra information about the songs. I think this is why MixTurtle loads so fast. It actually disabled a lot of flash features in order to give way to what is most important in a search engine which is getting fast and relevant results. It also downloads the music from several sources for faster streaming.

There is no registration needed in order to listen to music from MixTurtle. You only need to do this if you want to create a MixTurtle playlist which is very easy to accomplish. From your search result just click the + sign to add the song to your playlist, save it and you can listen to it again whenever you wish.

I don’t quite know yet how many music files are indexed by MixTurtle. I didn’t get the chance to test fully but it did get results from the songs that I searched. You can try it out for yourself to fully test the service and let us know what you think.

Tags: mixturtle, Music, music search engine, songs

Discover and Listen to Music According to your Mood

Musicovery is a cool web radio app that lets you discover and listen to music according to your mood settings. You can choose from Energetic, Calm, Dark and Positive moods or set the mood somewhere in between to display a more balanced mood selection. The service also allows you to balance your selection according to tempo and dance level. You can also toggle the genre checkbox to narrow down the displayed selection according to your favorite genre(s) and select a decade to filter the songs that are released in a specific time period.

Whenever you make a change in the control panel, Musicovery will display a different set of songs which fits your settings. The songs are displayed in a mindmap interface and are color coded according to genre. There is no registration required in order to listen to music, however, signing up in their free service will allow you to rate a song and add them to your favorites list in your account and ban a song from ever showing up again in your selections. The free service only allows you to listen to LoFi (Low Fidelity) songs and you have to cash out four dollars a month in order to listen to songs in HiFi (High Fidelity). A link to Amazon, Itunes and Ebay is also provided on the side of each playing music control panel just in case you want to buy the album of the playing track.

Musicovery is a cool and unique place to discover music online. The service does not offer a quick song or artist search. You have to go to sites like SeeqPod for that. So, if you are up listening to music in a different way check out Musicovery and let the music hit your mood.

Tags: discover, Free, Music, musicovery, online, radio, songs

SeeqPod: Media Search Engine Tips

Seeqpod is a search engine for playable media that can be found in the web. Just search for the music or artist and like what any respectable search engine will do, it will return search results but only for music and videos. This service is not entirely new but there are some features of Seeqpod worth mentioning that can be quite useful to you. Aside from the search feature, the discovery button lets you listen to the most recently discovered music Seeqpod has found on the Web. The site does not transcode the songs that it streams. You will hear it in its original form as scraped from MP3 blogs, personal Webpages and anywhere in the internet that hosts mp3′s. You can also embed the songs that you found to your blogs or social pages or download them using freemusiczilla.

Another cool feature of this site is that it auto detects IPhone and iPod Touch. Whenever you browse SeeqPod using your iPhone or iPod touch, it will display an IPhone/iPod Touch friendly environment. You can use this feature to browse the internet’s music just like as you would the music on an iPod. For this trick simply choose a letter, then an artist then a list of songs by that artist appears that are playable right then and there.

Another trick that you can do to make it possible to listen to music found on SeeqPod without having to open a browser first is to go to the SeeqPod page first using your phone’s browser, then click the plus sign which is found on the middle of the browser bar. The bookmark menu should appear. Touch Add to your home screen which will add the icon of SeeqPod to the home screen.

Tags: Download, Embed, Free, iphone, ipod, Music, seeqpod, touch

The Digg Girl’s Super Bowl Video

Kina Grannis who was made popular by her viral “Gotta Digg” music video got into the finals and recently won the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest. She launched an online campaign a few months ago to gather votes for the contest which includes a frequent release of her own music videos in YouTube of both cover and original composition by the Digg Girl herself. The 22 year old half Japanese from Orange County California discovered that her efforts paid off when the video was aired during the Super Bowl commercial. Check out the winning music video below featuring the song “Message From Your Heart” which is already available in iTunes.

Tags: bowl, crash, Digg, doritos, girl, Music, super, video

Songbeat. The music is mine. Music Downloader

Songbeat is the newest web-based music player for your Desktop. Songbeat allows you to search the web for music files by using an innovative search platform: just submit the song title or artist, and Songbeat finds the music for you! No illegal filesharing. No viruses. Just music.

Songbeat is far much different from P2P connections for it uses special music search engines to find your music online. It does not have access to your hard drive, or the hard drives of other users. Songbeat helps you find, play, and download mp3 music files that are already available online. Just type in the artist or song title and presto, seconds later, results will be listed.

There are four tabs available on the main menu:

• Music Search: where the search bar is on, just type in the artist name, song title.
• Search Result: where all the results are being displayed. Each result includes the song title, and on the bottom of each title names its artist, opposite each result are the options whether to play the song or download it.
• My Music: where the directory folder of MyMusic is being located in your hard disk. (MyMusic is the default saving directory located in Documents and Settings, however, no option is available on how to change this saving directory.
• Songbeat Pro: where you can upgrade your version of Songbeat, from Basic to Pro. (Songbeat Basic is free and does not seem to have download limitations. It is ad based which is not such a big problem, the ads are not that obtrusive).

Cool and easy to use.

Tags: Download, Free, Music, Songbeat