It seems a programmer by the name of Lucas Gonze was getting a lot of emails from friends that wanted him to listen to music they had found. Free music. He thought there should be a way to listen to them all in one spot, eureka an idea. Lucas made a page where everyone looks around, finds things they like and creates playlists. You can play a song or the whole page, you can also comment. The site is called Webjay and you can see it here.
The only thing is, there are no top ten hits, so no Brittany, no American Idol and it cannot be pirated music or they will take it down. But, now you have a game actually. Some of this stuff is good too!
As part of this Wired article,
Brett Singer is interviewed, a New York theater producer and computer
consultant:
Webjay regular Brett Singer, a New York theater producer and computer consultant, builds playlists in his spare time. He's created more than 50 collections with titles like Song-a-Day, a list made up of songs he has chosen each day for the past two months. On March 28, he had a seaweed treatment, so he chose a song by the group Seaweed Soup. He picked a song called "Party Party" on the occasion of his kid's birthday party. Some of the mixes have a political bent. Singer pulled together collections of remixes based on Howard Dean's now-infamous yell at the Iowa caucuses, and a playlist of songs with "testify" in the title, dedicated to Condi Rice. Songs on the "testify" list range from Christian gospel music to Rage Against the Machine. "My break at work used to be mini golf (on the computer)," Singer said. "This has taken the place of that and it is infinitely more fun." There's no set formula for finding music on the Web. Singer's strategy is to search AltaVista for MP3 links. He frequently adds pictures to his playlists using the Google image search tool. The pictures are accessible only if a person uses RealPlayer. Singer has found free tracks that bands provide as a promotional tool, for instance. He has linked to tracks on MacJams.com, a community of musicians who use Apple Computer's GarageBand software. And the Live Music Archive on the Internet Archive website has also been a great resource. |
Guess he hasn't heard about RealAlternative ...yet. There's a good playlist in the popular section for listening to as you manage your Unix services called, "more work music." Many tracks have a link to the site they found the music on. Check it out, tell us what you think, make sure to visit Wired and read the whole story.
Source: Wired
