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11 Apps to Put Your Musical Taste Back on the Right Track

11 Apps to Put Your Musical Taste Back on the Right Track | Le Top des Applications Web et Logiciels Gratuits | Scoop.it

 

Most people probably remember having a song, album, or band change our lives. It's a fairly common experience, even for those unfortunate beings who don't live and breathe music.

 

I collected a list of apps that can introduce us to our next musical obsessions. Some of these apps aren't new, which is not the point; it's the music that's supposed to be new. Have at them - and regardless of how we find it, let's all resolve to find and enjoy more music in 2013. We only have our fun to gain, or ourselves to blame.

 

1. 8tracks  : free; web (http://8tracks.com/), iOS, Android

 

You might remember mixtapes, which sometimes functioned as symbols of friendship or love that we don't really have anymore. 8tracks, one of the most popular music apps on Facebook, puts a digital spin on the mixtape phenomenon by providing users with a platform to create and share playlists with other users, or the world at large - something you couldn't do with any mixtape, no matter how good it was.

 

2. This Is My Jam : free; web (http://goo.gl/9whWK), Spotify

 

The secret to This Is My Jam is its simplicity. Even a child could grasp the concept: 1) Choose one song - the one you've had on repeat all week, annoying your roommates or family members with - personalize it with a background image and tweet-length commentary, and share with your followers; and 2) Explore other users jams by following other users and listening to their current jams as a playlist, or by searching through other users' jams. The key: Each user can only have one jam at a time.

 

3. Discovr Music : $1; iOS

 

Discovr Music is a visually stunning app, with elegant musical maps that display relationships among artists. It not only gives you something nice to look it, but an easy way to jump from bands you know to bands you don't. To start, search any band or artist and a small circular image of the artist will appear on your screen.

 

4. Music Bloodline : free; web (http://goo.gl/J85KI)

 

A music geek's dream, Music Bloodline lets you explore an artist's influences and "influencees," to help you expand your musical knowledge while also helping you discover stuff you'll like. After all, if you love My Bloody Valentine, wouldn't you like to listen to their influences, as well as the bands they influenced? Of course you would.

 

5. WhoSampled : free on the web (http://goo.gl/aM0kq); $3 for iOS

 

You know that feeling when you're listening to a song and you know you've heard one part before, but you can't place where? You rack your brain, combing through your mental database for a match, but no dice. Don't worry, WhoSampled can help.

 

6. We Are Hunted : free for web (http://goo.gl/Syw6Z), Spotify, Android; the iOS version,

 

We Are Hunted is sure to serve up something you have never heard of before. And that something will be fresh, because We Are Hunted scours the internets looking for buzz, and when it finds it, it serves you the songs in full. Music Hunter, only plays samples of the music

 

7. exfm : free; web (http://ex.fm/), iOS, Android

 

Ex.fm lets you explore trending music in a number of genres, but its true power comes from an ability to follow your Facebook or Twitter friends, or anyone else, listening to what they listen to - as well as browsing through all of the music websites tracked by the service.

 

8. Hype Machine : free on the web (http://goo.gl/Eto1Y); $4 for iOS

 

As you probably know, the Hype Machine looks at around a thousand music blogs, grabs all of their music, and puts play buttons next to all of it. You can favorite stuff to hear it later, explore by popularity, genre, and other methods - and if you really get hooked, you can customize it to follow only certain music blogs.

 

9. Musicovery : free (http://goo.gl/MWUJx); web, Android, iOS

 

It isn't as pretty as the other apps on this list, but Musicovery offers a neat way to filter the world of music by mood and energy, which it represents on two axes. One ranges from Energetic to Calm, the other from Dark to Positive.

 

10. Stereomood : free; web (http://goo.gl/DxJsA), Android, iOS)

 

Tag clouds might be out of style among web designers, but nobody can deny that they can surface a bunch of words in a graphically-interesting way. This is basically how Stereomood works; choose a mood from the list, and the app goes to town.

 

11. Songza : free; Android, iOS, Kindle Fire, Android tablet

 

Songza plays radio based on your mood, or a variety of other factors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

173 Sud's insight:

 

Look at VEVO, the world’s leading all-premium music video and entertainment platform : http://www.vevo.com/

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