(Project) Playlist.com

[Darren Dirt]

http://www.playlist.com/static/node/491.html

About Project Playlist?

Projectplaylist.com is an information location tool similar to Google? and Yahoo!? but devoted entirely to the world of music. Our purpose is to help you find and enjoy music legally throughout the web in the same way that other search engines help you find webpages, images, and other media, but we also add a social /community twist. We make it easy for you to create playlists, share your playlists with friends, and browse playlists of others. We connect you with the coolest music on the web, and we connect people who are passionate about music. Music is burgeoning on the web. Increasingly, artists, record companies, music bloggers, music websites and music critics are uploading music files to websites that they control for promotional or other legal purposes. Our mission at Project Playlist, Inc. is to organize this rapidly growing abundance of legal music on the web for the benefit of the worldwide music community ? artists, songwriters, music distributors, and listeners alike. Our view is that the more people share their individual passion for music by sharing playlists, the more music will be created, and the more the entire music industry will grow.

Projectplaylist.com allows you to discover all of this free music legally because we respect the rights of copyright holders and we insist that you do as well. We pay royalties to songwriters and music publishers, and we respect the performing artist?s choice. Some performing artists make their music freely available on the web, others allow you to listen to only a few freely available songs through a promotional site, and a few would prefer that none of their music be heard on the web at all. If an artist tells us that our search engine is linking to an illegally posted song, we will immediately take down the link to that music file.

We are in the process of building an index of links to music files posted on webpages that meet reasonable criteria as having the legal right to host music files for streaming to end users. Although we cannot control the music files posted on webpages by others, we can and do prohibit uploading or downloading of songs to or from our site. In other words we do not host music files, nor do we make them available. We only enable users to find these files and listen to them. We also require as a condition of the Terms of Use of our site that you not add to our index any links to webpages that you know to host illegally posted music files.

Once you find music tracks that you like through our music search engine (or on another user's playlist), you can add them to your personal playlist and then share your playlist with others. You can post your playlist on your social networking webpage or any other website, subject to the terms of use of those sites, or you can email your playlist to friends! We are constantly adding features to help you find, play and share the music you love. If you discover a legally posted music file not in our index, you can add the link to that file to our index and to your playlist. We ask that you add links only to songs that you reasonably believe are legally posted on a legitimate promotional site such as an artist website or a music blog.

for example...
http://www.playlist.com/node/13734372


Seems like a neat little service... guilt-free online streaming with ability to make your own playlist, and not just of lesser-known "indie" artists.


Time to look for a decent "Rush" mix...
here we go

[Mr. Analog]

So... rather than read that huge block of impenetrable text, is it basically like Seeqpod? That is to say, merely an advanced search engine for audio files?

http://www.seeqpod.com/

[Darren Dirt]

sure.

But with more-than-just-text-search and a pretty interface and efforts to support artists/royalties and stuff. (apparently)

Just found it, and within seconds was listening to an "all-Rush all-the-time" internet stream, had to share

[Mr. Analog]

Sweetness!

[Darren Dirt]

Here's another "social music streaming" site...

http://www.jango.com/faq

Again, found it when I did a lyrics search on a Rush song that was in my head; one of the Google results was a "station" on Jango that had a handful of Rush tunes...