MySpace Music launches (yawn)

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Web services, Social Software

MySpace Music launches (yawn)

by Brad Linder Sep 25th 2008

After months of planning, MySpace has rolled out MySpace Music, a new advertising-supported streaming audio service backed by the four major music labels.

There are a few things that make MySpace Music worth checking out. You can stream all the songs for free. And you can add songs to a custom playlist and post that list to your MySpace profile, making it easy for people to find new music. And finally, if you find a song you like, but you want to play it on a portable device or when your computer isn't connected to the internet, you can click the Buy button in the player to purchase the a DRM-free copy of the track from Amazon MP3.

But I'm still not particularly impressed. I was able to find MySpace pages for most of the artists I searched for. But not every song was available for purchase from Amazon. And for many artists you could find one or two albums, but not every album, and certainly not every song.

Since MySpace Music is basically a streaming audio website, it's hard not to compare it to similar services like Last.fm or even SeeqPod. And I have to say, while the audio player is nice, and the social aspect could be useful, the music selection isn't very impressive.

Tags: music, myspace, myspace-music

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

colin said 4:00PM on 9-25-2008

the myspace service is good and all - but what about the independent artists who basically got the music section of that site started? can they sell their songs? been looking at these services for a little while, and only one comes to mind - www.madeloud.com, and they have a really good deal for artists - are there any others out there?

Unknown said 6:00PM on 9-25-2008

I just created my playlist and I have to say the selection was more impressive then the article lead me to believe. You can also check your song history and add those into your new profile playlist. This expanded functionality within the profile is definitely not as big a shake up as the custom Top 8. It will still be interesting to see how this more visible and comprehensive music info will play out... we'll see

Who said 9:29PM on 9-25-2008

Sounds alot like Imeem to me

Travis said 10:13PM on 9-25-2008

My Music

zeph said 1:10AM on 9-26-2008

So they're basically charging now for what would usually be free if uploaded to a Myspace music profile...

I'm not sold.

Ray said 6:31PM on 9-29-2008

People: for free music downloads you should go to newmelodies.com

I'm talking to you artists out there. Not only do they have free downloads over there you can share with your fans, but they will pay you per download.

C ya!

Mick Nye said 9:56AM on 10-03-2008

A friend pointed my attention to Deezer.com , its so far the best working free online music platform I have tried, because its packed with stuff and dead easy to use. As for my music, you can download quite a lot of it for free here http://www.micknye.com

Cheers
Michael

bubbles said 4:12PM on 11-03-2008

how do i get on to other peoples song history?

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