My friends and I like music. We like to make mixes for different occasions. My one friend has a good number of cd’s on the back of his car. Each time we get together we discuss new music, they are always introducing me to new artists, mixtapes, and cd’s.
We’ve always tried to discover new methods of discovering and sharing music between us. Years ago we’d make playlists via imeem, and share them via Facebook and more recently twitter. Sadly these days were limited and imeem was eventually bought by Myspace who killed it off. Since then we’ve been searching for a new, easy, and legit way to share music online. Today I may have found the solution to our problem. It’s a little site called 8tracks.
8tracks is a music discovery service that allows you to discover new music via playlists from other users. The idea behind 8tracks is that people can come up with better music mixes than algorithms and computers. 8tracks reminds me of a Pandora, but with the songs chosen by the creator of the playlist. It allows you to upload any track you own to the service to be shared.
The site is awesome for anyone who is trying to share mixes. You can create a “Monday Morning” mix of your favorite beginning of the week tracks, then add it to your blog or website, or share the link via twitter or facebook so that you friends can listen to it. One feature I really like is the fact that you can see similarly tagged playlists and discover new music via other users.
One minor thing I that discovered that may another some users is the fact that if you try to listen to the same list more than once in a row, it shuffles the song order. This can ruin some playlists, but it also could be nothing more than a minor inconvenience. The site also doesn’t want you to add multiple songs from one artist on the same playlist.
8Tracks is a pretty cool site. If you are getting bored of Pandora and want something similar with a different variety of music, check it out...
We’ve always tried to discover new methods of discovering and sharing music between us. Years ago we’d make playlists via imeem, and share them via Facebook and more recently twitter. Sadly these days were limited and imeem was eventually bought by Myspace who killed it off. Since then we’ve been searching for a new, easy, and legit way to share music online. Today I may have found the solution to our problem. It’s a little site called 8tracks.
8tracks is a music discovery service that allows you to discover new music via playlists from other users. The idea behind 8tracks is that people can come up with better music mixes than algorithms and computers. 8tracks reminds me of a Pandora, but with the songs chosen by the creator of the playlist. It allows you to upload any track you own to the service to be shared.
The site is awesome for anyone who is trying to share mixes. You can create a “Monday Morning” mix of your favorite beginning of the week tracks, then add it to your blog or website, or share the link via twitter or facebook so that you friends can listen to it. One feature I really like is the fact that you can see similarly tagged playlists and discover new music via other users.
One minor thing I that discovered that may another some users is the fact that if you try to listen to the same list more than once in a row, it shuffles the song order. This can ruin some playlists, but it also could be nothing more than a minor inconvenience. The site also doesn’t want you to add multiple songs from one artist on the same playlist.
8Tracks is a pretty cool site. If you are getting bored of Pandora and want something similar with a different variety of music, check it out...
1 comment:
Thanks for dropping the knowledge broski
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