The Best Music Services Part 5
This is the fifth article in a 5 part series on the Best Music Services on the Internet. See the rest of the series:
- The Most Reliable Online Music Services
- Online Music Services with the Best Suggestion Quality
- The Best Music Discovery Service
- Best Community Driven Online Music Services
- BBest Third Party Integration among Online Music Services
Even though you can do a lot from the home page of most internet music services, you need to be able to take the show on the road. When you can integrate your favorite music service into other third party sites and devices they become more powerful and useful.
I have a few standard ways that I will judge each service’s third party integration:
- Plug-ins for your desktop music player (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.)
- Integration with popular Social Networks (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.)
- Standalone Application for your phone (iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, etc.)
- Embeddable player for your web page
A service will need at least one check for each category for a “perfect” score.
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iPhone, last.fm, music services, music streaming, pandora, social networking, third party integration
The Best Music Services Part 4
One of the things that makes online music services more interesting and useful than your iTunes library is the aspect of a Music Community. Not only can you hear good music, but you can connect with friends and others who share your tastes. This allows you to socialize about your favorite artists and see what others think and listen to. I get a lot of suggestions for new music from the people in my online music communities.
This is the 4th article in a 5 part series on the Best Music Services on the Internet. See the rest of the series:
- The Most Reliable Online Music Services
- Online Music Services with the Best Suggestion Quality
- The Best Music Discovery Service
- Best Community Driven Online Music Services
- BBest Third Party Integration among Online Music Services
Let’s take a look at the types of community and social networking that each of these services offeres. (P.S. If you are interested in sharing musical selections with me, there are links at the bottom of the post.)
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Media, Miscellaneous Ramblings, Music, Product Reviews, Technology, Web Surfing
community, last.fm, Music, music discovery, music services, music streaming, pandora, slacker.com
The Best Music Services Part 3
This is the 3rd article in a 5 part series on the Best Music Services on the Internet. See the rest of the series:
- The Most Reliable Online Music Services
- Online Music Services with the Best Suggestion Quality
- The Best Music Discovery Service
- Best Community Driven Online Music Services
- BBest Third Party Integration among Online Music Services
If I want to hear all of my favorite songs, I can just listen to the “My Top Rated” playlist in iTunes. One of the real values of a good online music service is the ability to turn you on to good new music that you DID NOT know about.
These days I find just about all of my bands from suggestions on my favorite services. Let’s take a look at how our players stack up on the issue of Music Discovery.
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Media, Miscellaneous Ramblings, Music, Product Reviews, Technology, Web Surfing
last.fm, music discovery, music services, music streaming, pandora, slacker.com
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