Songerize
By Joe Campbell
February 9th, 2008
Came across reddit: this easy-to-use "play any song you want" music player. Just type in the name and artist, and the song plays.
They don't have everything - but they have a lot. Going for more obscure tracks, I found they had about half of the ones I looked for - including modern-day jazz and classical performances, country, and alt-rock. For more mainstream titles, I tried fewer, but every one came up.
This isn't the best music player - you can't create playlists for example. But when you want to play a song for someone - it's right there. When you need to listen to a particular song for some reason - again it's there.
Comments
Still Rob G · 2008-02-09
so how do they a) make this into a business b) not get sued for vicarious infringementI've tried it and there seem to be quite a lot of holes, but I've already got my account at imeem.com which has a better catalog, real features and is legal.... so I'll stay where I am.
joe@2parse · 2008-02-09
I was wondering that myself...But I think the real positive aspect of songerize is that it's simple. imeem is easy enough to figure out, but to listen to a song takes at least 2 steps, not including signing up for or signing into an account.
I know Pandora won't play a song for you if you request it - only "related songs".
But for me - as I have most of my music in mp3 or aac form to put on my ipod, Songerize fills that void when - for whatever reason - I just need to hear a song.
It doesn't have every song at the moment - but that's something that can be fixed - as long as they've dealt with the legal implications. They key attractive feature for me is the simplicity.