Δισκογραφικές Εταιρείες: γυρίστε πίσω!

Δεν χρειάζεται να πω πολλά για να αιτιολογήσω τον τίτλο του ποστ. Απλά ατενίζωντας το πεδίο όπου καλείται να πολεμήσει κάθε σύγχρονη μπάντα, σκέφτομαι πώς ίσως ήταν καλύτερα τότε που όλα τα της προώθησης τα αναλάμβαναν υπάλληλοι της δισκογραφικής και εμείς απλά γράφαμε μουσική. Απελευθέρωση θέλαμε, την πετύχαμε. Ας τη φάμε λοιπόν στη μάπα::(ή αλλιώς αντε να τρέξεις προφίλ σε όλα τα παρακάτω)

 

 

 

 

The Hype Machine follows music blog discussion. Every day, hundreds of people around the world write about music they love. Then it all ends up here. Hype Radio is Internet radio that is powered by blogs. All the tracks that end up in the stream are songs recently mentioned by bloggers listed on the Hype Machine. It's radio that's truly powered by the Internet.

 

Streampad is a full-featured music application that runs inside a web browser. It is being developed by Dan Kantor. You can: Listen to your own music from anywhere in the world. Stream concerts from the Internet Archive. Tune in to great music from around the web. Create your own playlists and share them on your own site. See what your friends are listening to.

 

Sideload.com is a website that aggregates popular free music tracks on the web that have been sideloaded into Oboe, the online music locker from MP3tunes. You can quickly preview tracks and store them permanently in your Locker with one click! Sideloading tracks to your Locker makes them playable anywhere you have a web connection.

 

Share your music on any website - TuneFeeds make music sharing quick & easy! Just upload some MP3s then put the free TuneFeed player on any website - MySpace, Blogger, eBay, anywhere! TuneFeed music sharing is 100% legal and totally free. You have full privacy control over who may listen to your music. All TuneFeeds are fully RSS enabled.

 

PureVolume is a website for bands and musical artists to promote and advertise themselves. Each artist/band has its own miniature website which usually includes news, photos, upcoming shows, background/biographical information, contact information, and music for free listening and downloads. Over 500,000 artists house such profiles on PureVolume.

 

Radio.blog.club lets you search for any song and then play it in the web based player Radio.blog. You can also create playlists of the songs you find and share these in various ways. Radio.blog.club has an Facebook applet and is accessible through the Opera browser in the Nintento Wii. A store is also avaiable in collaboration with Amazon.

 

Musicovery is an internet based radio station with the goal of discover new music for its users. With Musicovery you can choose what music will be played not only by genre and time, but also by mood and temp. In one matrix you can choose how energetic, calm, dark and positivs the music shall be, and in another how danceable and what tempo it shall have.

 

MediaMaster lets you upload your music collection to your account and access it everywhere from your browser. Your music is stored and backed up. Listen to your tracks and playlists from any web browser on any computer. Using MediaMaster widgets, post your entire collection, playlists and radio station to any blog or website, including Facebook.

 

Anywhere.FM is a powerful music player that makes it easy to: Upload your entire music collection, Play it anywhere on the best web music player, Discover new music through Friend Radio. Anywhere.FM, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and was founded by a team of MIT and UPenn graduates who previously worked at XBOX, Amazon.com, and Microsoft.

 

With Lala.com you can upload your music to the internet. Upload your iTunes and My Music folder to the Web. Say "iPod": Designed to be iPod friendly, easily fill up your iPod from the Web (and any PC) with your favorite music. The "S" word - share. Don't spend hours on P2P sites and worry about viruses. On Lala.com you can safely share music and playlists.

 

imeem is an online community where artists, fans & friends can promote their content, share their tastes, and discover new blogs, photos, music and video. You can enjoy the latest videos, music, photos, or blogs posted on imeem. Tag, comment, rate, and share any of your friends' cool (or embarrassing) content. And of course embed your media.

 

With Maestro you can remotely access, manage, and interact with your entire music library stored at home through any web browser. To start streaming music, you need to download the "Maestro Connector" and tell it where you stash your music. Maestro then sucks down all the meta-data (location, artist, album, length) and logs it in your profile online.

 

ivoon makes it possible to easily browse thousands of songs and upload your own music, create your own playlist, choose from one of their cutting edge mp3 players - designed as ipods - and then share it with the world on your MySpace, Facebook, TagWorld etc. The tagline of ivoon is "Distinguish your music playlist from the rest with Ivoon".

 

With MXPLAY, you find music while you browse the web with your browser. Or explore the MXPLAY website to find cool bands, music blogs, and content created or discovered by other users. You can create mashups with videos from YouTube, save songs from a music blog to an online playlist, or post your playlists and mashups on your social network page.

 

Last.fm is a UK-based internet radio and music community website, founded in 2002. It is one of the world's largest social music platforms with over 15 million active users based in more than 232 countries. Using a unique music recommendation system known as "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste.

 

Pandora is an automated music recommendation and internet radio service created by The Music Genome Project. Users enter a song or artist that they enjoy, and the service responds by playing selections that are musically similar. Users provide feedback on the individual song choices — approval or disapproval — which Pandora takes into account.

 

Franceradio.net is a what they say a mega search engine which brings together at the same time Google, Yahoo! Live and Altavista. That permits the web surfers to extend the coverage of their search by gathering the chief search engines worldwide. The partnership with Franceradio.net does not guarantee a favorable placement in the results of the search.

 

SkreemR is a search engine for locating audio files on the web. They does not host any files, they only index what exists on the publicly accessible reaches of the internet. The goal of SkreemR is to make this content as searchable and useable to the internet community as possible. SkreemR also wants to launch you into the internet music community.

 

Contrastream lets you tap into the wisdom of crowds, through community filtered indie music. They help people find the best new independent music quickly. Independent music fans now have a reliable source to find music through community recommended albums, they say. Too keep the albums indie Contrastream has added a “Flag as Sell-out” feature.

 

Simplify Media connects you through iTunes. Enjoy music from home while at work or school. Explore friends' music while they are online. Set-up is fast. No need to upload files to a website. Only your group can access what you are sharing, and no one can see your other files. With Simply Media files are streamed legally only within your private group.

 

On finetunes you type an artist's name, and they create a playlist of related songs for you to listen to. You can create your own playlist, and hand pick each song to perfection or let finetune auto-complete with their recommendation technology. You can also explore the growing finetune community and embed your playlist.

 

On MOG you can share your songs, music library, videos and thoughts on music with friends and moggers. You can also participate in what they claim to be the Web's most raging music community. MOG also enables you to get instant recommendations and personalized content at the click of a button that starts the MOG-O-MATIC, the key to the MOG-experience.

 

As a listener on iJigg you can discover new music, rate music you like digg-style, download free MP3s and share the music you like with all of your friends. If you have a band or are an artist you can post all your music tracks, easily share your music, make new fans and in that way hopefully become more popular! iJigg is totally for both parts.

 

MyStrands claims that we all weave our lives from many strands. The Music we listen to, the people we meet, and the parties we attend define who we are. With MyStrands you can share these strands of your life with everyone in the world. You share you tastes. You get personalized recommendations. And - as MyStrands puts it - Party like never before.

 

With iLike you discover new music with friends. You can share your iTunes playlists with friends. You can get music picks and free MP3s to match your tastes and in that way discover new cool music. Alo, you get notified when your favorite artists are playing near you so you easily can keep yourself up to date and will never have to miss a show again.

 

Fairtilizer claim they let you discover today's most relevant and groundbreaking music. Also create and share playlists, download free tracks daily, subscribe to your favorite artists, labels, charts RSS feeds and last but not least connect with artists, labels and people who care about music. Simply; Fairtlizier is a community for people who care about music.

 

WeBot is an application that lets you stream your music collection or view your photo collection from anywhere you find yourself. No servers and no uploading. Just instant access to all your content from an many machines as you may have it spread out to. Have your mp3s and photos on three separate machines in two locations? An easy task for WeBot.

 

Grooveshark is an online music sharing community that rewards you for sharing your music. Grooveshark allows you to download Mp3s safely and legally while their system maximizes the bit-rate (quality) and removes any viruses or other spyware from the music. Built on a p2p it gives you access to a massive music catalog and allows you to interact with others.

 

On Odeo you can access almost 4,000,000 mp3 files from all over the internet. You can download or play them straight from the Odeo website for free and you can also put them on your web site. If you create an account - which is free - you can subscribe to things and save the stuff you like. Currently there are over 300,000 registered users on Odeo.

 

Fiql wants to be the best resource for music playlists. Playlists are everywhere - on the radio, in magazines, on message boards and blogs and most importantly in your music collection. As storage increases and the limits of the single album are long left behind, it's becoming harder and harder to manage music... and that's why Fiql was created.

 

meTracks claims to be a innovative web based audio player that allows you to listen to your music on demand. meTracks offers a web based interface to 1 GB storage where you can upload your audio tracks. To that you have 10GB maximum transfer each month. This is however only during the beta stage, they claim that there will be "Limitless audio" later on.

 

Projectplaylist.com is an information location tool devoted entirely to the world of music. Their purpose is to help you find and enjoy music legally throughout the web and they also add a social community twist. They try to make it easy for you to create playlists, share your playlists with friends, and browse playlists of others to connect to cool music.

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