MusicMesh
OK, I’m on a "bookmark this site" tear today. MusicMesh (beta) is an interesting music discovery site. After searching for a particular musician, you get a graphical representation of closely related artists. CDs themselves link to lots of information: reviews, tracklists, YouTube content, and more. The connection with YouTube is a huge seller…many people are looking for music videos and don’t know where to start. Here you get music info + the videos.
My own searches were disappointing…a search for Morrissey brought back Morrissey CDs as 3 of the 6 related groups. For Moby, it was 2 out of 6. The recommended groups weren’t all that closely related in my opinion, though in some cases they were artists I did like anyway. I think it’s an interesting concept, especially representing the information visually, but for now I’ll stick with Pandora for finding music recommendations. Its accuracy is uncanny.
found via Sites and Soundbytes
April 4th, 2008 at 6:17 am
I really like Last.fm the best of all to be honest. I let it look at what I was listening to (called scrobbling) for about a month before I looked into what it’d recommend for me. It was really accurate in things that I would like both based on my neighborhood (other users who listen to similar stuff) and their recommended tracks. I’ve found a few new good bands using Pandora, but I’ve found loads more using Last.fm.
April 4th, 2008 at 6:56 am
It seems to have a rather limited selection of artists/albums. Hopefully it will grow over time.