MyStrands: Create your own music video channel

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MyStrands: Create your own music video channel

by Brad Linder Jan 23rd 2008

MyStrands.tv is sort of like Pandora or Last.fm for music videos. All you do is enter an artist or genre and MyStrands will start playing music videos it thinks you'll like. What makes MyStrands different from those other services is that MyStrands content comes entirely from YouTube.

As such, it's not clear whether all of the videos are 100% legal. In fact, we're going to go out on a limb and assume that some of the content has been ilegally uploaded by users, but after playing around with MyStrands for a while we have yet to get an error message telling us a video has been removed, so hopefully there's a system in place to skip over removed videos.

As with similar music discovery services, you can give music videos a thumbs up or down to let MyStrands more easily find music that meets your tastes. If you sign up for an account you can save and share your custom channels.

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Tags: music, music-discovery, music-videos, MyStrands, YouTube

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zachary said 7:19AM on 4-22-2008

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