Media Streaming, Playback, and Organization
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[edit] News
MySpace Music Streams Its Billionth Song “A Few Days” After Launch - TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington weighs in on the unbridaled success of MySpacre Music. Originally published in TechCrunch, October 5th, 2008.
MySpace Music Streams a Billion Songs in ‘A Few Days’ - MySpace Music becomes an instant hit. Originally published by Switched, October 6th, 2008.
EMI Planning Own Music Service – Embattled record label EMI decides to start their own iTunes-like music service. Originally published in Wired, October 9th, 2008.
Lime Wire Wants to Play-to-Play By the Rules – Notorious peer-to-peer network Lime Wire attempts to “legitimize” file sharing by advertising lesser known musicians and record labels. Originally published in WebProNews, October 10th, 2008.
[edit] Database-Style Players
Songbird - A Mozilla-powered music player similar to iTunes.
[edit] Stand-Alone Players
CorePlayer - A media player designed to work on everything from Windows to PDAs.
jetAudio - A powerful media player, recorder, and converter originally made for the Cowon line of personal media players.
VLC - The popular open source media player.
[edit] Media Streaming
8Tracks – Make your own mix tape.
BlueTunes – Backup your music files to the web. Said files can then be streamed or shared with others via ‘’’Facebook’’’.
Streamzy - Stream your favorite music from anywhere.
[edit] Internet Radio
Jukefly - Music streaming and online radio all in one.
Last.FM - A surprisingly popular (and legal) music streaming and suggestion site.
Pandora - The lauded online radio network. Pandora is also available on the iPhone.
XM - The satellite radio network is now available on Blackberry devices.
[edit] Open Source Alternatives
QuickTime Alternative - An up-to-date free alternative to QuickTime.
Real Alternative - A free alternative to Real Player.
[edit] Music Stores
Lala – A fairly new music service that lets users buy either “streaming” versions of songs for ten cents, or “traditional” physical copies of the tracks for $.89
Walmart MP3 Music Downloads – The latest attempt by Walmart to create an online music store.
[edit] Extensions
[edit] iTunes-Based
Mojo - Manage iTunes over the Internet.
iConcertCal - Concert calendar for iTunes.
[edit] Browser Extensions
FoxyTunes - Control the media player of your choice, find lyrics and more, all without minimizing the browser of your choice.
iTunes Widget - Control iTunes from Opera.
