The Sound of Music

Today we explore the world of online streaming music sites.

I have used Pandora several times before. The site begins playing music very easily and has a nice user interface, but if you have something in particular in mind it doesn't work that well. The review process can be fun in that you are given the feeling that your opinion has an affect on what will be coming up next.

Today I tried out FineTune. The idea seems nice, but the limitations make it a little less desirable. In FineTune you create your own playlist or you can listen to others. The limitations are that you can only have three of a particular artists work in a playlist. Also when I was searching the Beatles discography the songs in each album were listed, but not actually available. They have a lazy feature that will fill out the rest of a playlist if you don't want to do it yourself (which strangely put some Beatles songs on that had appeared to be unavailable). The design of the website also was not very intuitive, but had a very stylish look.

What I would like is a site that lets you do what you want without restrictions, but that would probably violate the record companies copyrights.