I was watching my girlfriend’s kids sometime ago as they were using the computer and I noticed that they would use YouTube as a juke box. Whenever they wanted to hear a song they just typed the name of the song into YouTube and almost every time they found the song and were able to listen to it on demand. Sometimes it wasn’t even a music video or a live performance but someone had taken the song and added some visuals to it and posted it for others to enjoy.
My friend wanted to hear “Up on Cripple Creek” by The Band this morning, so he created a station on Pandora and they started to play a similar song by The Band and then Pandora played songs related to it based on their genome project. But I don’t think that Pandora can play song for it’s customers on demand because of a licensing issue. So where do we go online if we want to hear a song immediately in its entirety?
Obviously YouTube is a good place to start but sometimes you have to sift through the covers and live versions before you can find the studio version that you want to hear. I have had good luck with Last.Fm. Without getting to all the reasons why, they now have a very deep catalog of songs for people to listen to on demand. My experience is they don’t have every song and sometimes they only have 30 second samples, but quite often they have what I am looking for. I have been using them to listen to bands or songs that I have never heard before and sometimes to listen to an old classic that I don’t have or am to lazy to digg up.
I have also been recently checking out mp3.rhapsody.com since they now are allowing people to listen to 25 songs a month for free. I only have been listening to new songs on Rhapsody since they have this 25 song limit. Since I use more than one browser it seems that I can listen to more than 25 songs if I access their site with a different browser.
So if you want to check out a new band or listen to a song you haven’t heard in a while, check out the three sites that I have mentioned above. If you use a different website or service to listen to music on demand, please leave a comment and I will check it out.
~Riley
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