12 serviços de musica personalizada em revista

Jango, TheSixtyOne, Musicovery, BoomShuffle, finetune, last.fm, Pandora, Slacker, Skreemr, Songza, MySpace, and imeem.

«Free, legal music has existed forever—or at least since the invention of the radio (...) These days, a good radio station is hard to come by and CDs are $20 a pop. So, what's a music lover to do? Turn to the Internet, of course, where you can find music-streaming services that are not only free and legal (like all radio) but customizable. There are plenty of services out there that offer either loose customization or full-blown playlist building. Services like Pandora, Slacker, and Jango let you enter the name of an artist or artists and listen to a stream of songs tailored specifically to your tastes. Other music sites like BoomShuffle and finetune allow you to pick the actual songs you'll hear; once you've added X number of songs, your playlist is treated as a full-fledged Web radio station and you can listen to it as often as you like, pass it around the Web, and embed it on a blog or social network. As with anything free, there are some caveats. In order to get the blessing of the music industry, these music sites can't just let you play any old song you want, whenever you want. The playlists you build and the streams you customize need to be considered Web radio stations. Here are some of the conditions that have to be met to be considered Web radio:

• Any playlist you build must include songs from at least 15 different artists
• The playlist order is randomized
• The listener can only skip a certain number of songs per listening session
• The site—not the user—must make royalty payments

 

These are minor hang-ups—after all, the payoff is that you get to listen to free music legally—but they're worth mentioning. These sites are a perfect match for a certain type of music listener: the kind who wants a little more control than typical Web radio affords, but who also wants to listen to new music that might not be in his or her iTunes folder. They're also perfect for office workers who can't store their personal music libraries on work machines but go crazy in their cubicles without tunes. Even better, they're all free, and you won't get sued for using any of them. So what are you waiting for?»

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fonte: Get Free Music! PC Mag, Kyle Monson 02.15.08