MusicMesh - Finding new music
Posted on May 7, 2007 - Filed Under NetFinds, Music |
Lifehacker brought a new way of finding new music to my attention. Musicmesh is a site that allows you to use your favourite artists as a starting base to search for new music that could be to your liking by graphically representing a network of artists, albums, etc. that are similiar to your hot picks.
I’ve used the iTunes music store for that purpose so far, and a new way to go about that buisness is really welcome.
Musicmesh has an ayout is sweet on the eyes. In a surevy of the site, the developers called it “floating CD’s”. The right hand site of the site instantly (i could not agree with some of the comments on Lifehacker about musicmesh having long loading times) offers the selected album’s tracklist, user ratings, the artists wiki, a link to the album at amazon and integrated YouTube videos of selected tracks. The main div shows an animated network of albums that are supposed to be similar to whatever you have selected. All navigable.
The user ratings appear to be from amazon, and I suppose that’s where the album covers come from, too. It eludes me, however, where they get the information about the meshup structure. A first clue, that it’s from amazon, too, could not be verified, but then I really didn’t get into that much detail.
While I really like the quick navigation from album to album, I miss the user ratings of single tracks. iTunes lets me see, what other users liked best in any album, that’s very handy, because I hardly have the patience to browse through all tracks of an album. Also, information on where the network structure comes from would be nice, I’m not entirely sure that some connection are based on irrelevant information like “published the same year”, or something similar. Comments on LifeHacker claim, that certain musical genres are underrepresented. It’s a beta tryout, after all.
Still, it’s nice to find new stuff without having to sort through iMixes, which are useless to me, sometimes.
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