Sorry to use such a terrible, terrible song title as a post title, but I couldn't resist!
I have finally found a tool, that I think you will find much more useful than Musipedia, it is....wait for it....lala! That's right, it's actually called Lala. Lala is a sort of variation/rip-off of my beloved last.fm, it's a music website/sort of database you may say combined with social networking. It's a bit different from last.fm in the sense that you have a web library of music accessible from any computer which is pretty cool. You also start out with 50 free song credits for your web library, and any web purchases after that are only 10 cents. Full mp3s cost 89 cents, but if you already purchased them for your web library they cost 79 cents. But let's be real, this is cheap and all...but does anyone really pay for music anymore? If I'm gonna buy music it will either be on Vinyl, in CD form, or from the iTunes Store if I have a gift card.
One thing that is a little frustrating about Lala is that it is hard to find other users or see how many people are using the service. A great feature for this site would be some sort of music compatibility scale based on taste or songs listened to, so that users could connect with each other and recommend music to one another. Hopefully future versions will remedy this problem.
Lala gets pretty decent reviews, PC mag has a pretty good one that you can read here. But it has yet to catch on as much as Pandora or last.fm. In order to get the full effect of Lala, I signed up for an account. It was pretty easy, and after you sign up you can download an application to "upload" your existing library (mine was iTunes) called the Lala music mover. The music mover looks up songs in your library that also exist in their vast online library (over 6 million songs) and uploads them into your Lala "collection" and they work the same way that any other web song you could buy with your credits would. It's pretty cool, but not without it's faults. I have over 10 thousand songs in my iTunes library, so it estimated about 10 hours over uploading. I left it to upload over night, but it errored after about 7,000 or so songs and I'm too lazy to upload the remaining 3,000...
But access to 7,000 streaming songs online (and all of my iTunes playlists) is pretty cool! It's really convenient because my library is stored on my external hard drive, which I obviously cannot carry around with me all the time, so when I'm at work or outside on my laptop, I can still listen to my music! Also loading songs takes seconds! And you can make a sort of Netflix queue of the songs you want to listen to, which is really awesome.
Anyone who likes to listen to music can use this tool, it's super easy to use and convenient. I might even keep my account for a while!
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