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Take Those Tunes Beyond Your iPod

At least five sites can help

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(Newser) – Sure, you can listen to the hundreds of gigs of music you have on your computer—but why limit yourself? Mashable lists the top Web sites and applications to help you really utilize your audio library:

  • Last.fm: One of the Web’s most popular music social networks, the site’s best feature is Scrobbler, which analyzes your listening habits and gives you recommendations based on your own tastes.

  • TidySongs: Too overwhelmed to scan your iTunes library for duplicates, misspelled tracks, or other mistakes? Let this application do it—and fix errors—for you automatically.
  • Livekick: Just upload your iTunes library—or profiles from many online music sites—and this site will populate a concert calendar that you can have delivered via email or RSS.
  • TuneWiki: This site offers a free iPhone app that serves up the lyrics to the songs you’re listening to on your iPhone or iPod touch—it can even translate them into more than 40 languages.
  • JamLegend: This game is like Guitar Hero for the Web, but it allows you to upload your own songs to rock out to.
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Mashable lists the best Web sites and applications to use with your music collection.
Mashable lists the best Web sites and applications to use with your music collection.   (Wikimedia Commons)
The Last.fm homepage.
The Last.fm homepage.   (last.fm)
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Radzyn
Aug 5, 09 8:54 PM CDT
Tried Last.fm, Livekick, and TuneWIKI. Last.fm seems to be the best so far. Firefox has an extension for it, makes life easy :p Reply
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shonangreg
Aug 5, 09 9:40 PM CDT
Remember last.fm turned over its users' listening lists to the recording industry. http://www.google.com/search?q=last.fm+RIAA Reply
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shonangreg
Aug 5, 09 9:49 PM CDT
deezer.com streams music titles on demand. shoutcast.com has lots of "channels. pandora.com is perhaps the best IF you are inside America. It really helps you to easily expand your musical horizons. HIGHLY recommended for all. And hober.com has only one channel, but it is great! It is always a bit folky, but it is well done. On linux, a .m3u playlist with http://play.hober.com:80/hober.mp3 in the file will let you stream hober via VLC Media Player ( videolan.org ) It will play almost any media on almost any platform. Open source and free. Reply
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Radzyn
Aug 7, 09 12:07 AM CDT
Ahhh didn't know that about last, Shonangreg. That's kind of upsetting. Thanks for the info! Reply
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