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Online Music: 60 Essential Music and Audio Websites

admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:20:56 +0000

Listening music has always been a popular thing for many people and there has been revolution in music after the introduction of internet. Different websites about with many options have made it much simpler. Now you can find the best music and tracks of your choice easily available on these websites which are good not only for the fans but also for the musicians. There is a music taste for every music lover on these websites with the best music options.

Internet Radio

Jango – Start playing free radio on internet just by typing the name of artist on Jango which provides best music for free.
TeaBrerak – Get the get the music for free on TeaBreak with facility to share it with other music lovers where you can customize Internet Radio.

Internet-Radio , a great music community where you can listen music of your choice and watch music videos. (www.internet-radio.org.uk)
Radio-locator , Just tune to radio-locator to listen the best music on thousands of internet radio stations all over the world. ( www.radio-locator.co)
RadioTower – Listen free music on RadioTower for all the latest hits by your favourite artists. ( www.radiotower.com)
Music Discovery Tools
Mashable – you may browse similar artists and also find track lists on www.mashable.com

FutureofMusicBook – get the top lists of different artists and listen for free on www.futureofmusic.com

Mediafuturist – this tool helps you to get best music on the web (www.mediafuturist.com)

Social Networks
Soundpedia – discover the new music on the social network with the download facility (www.soundpedia.com)
Recorded-Music – a great place for the artists and bands to share their music with their friends.(www.recorded-music.com)

r4rmedia – create your profiles and tracks on the site where bands can sell their tracks as well (www.r4rmedia.com)

MusicV2 – find best music, upload tracks and share your music with others (www.musicv2.com)

Social-Music, – make your play list including best tracks and find artists as well (www.social-music.com)

Music Sharing Applications and Widgets

DriveAway – a huge collection of music for you where you can share it as well. (www.driveaway.com)

Muzocons – you can store your music, and upload your music (www.muzicons.com)

IndieRockcafe – connect with the similar users to get the music with similar taste (www.indierockcafe.com)

Widgetbox – update your music library and download your music (www.widgetbox.com)

Widgetplus – a place where you can store music to create your profile (www.widgetplus.com)
Music Marketplaces

MoreMusic – high quality music collection where you can choose your favourite tracks(www.moremusic.com)

NewMusicJukeBox – a place where you can buy music of your favouriter artists (www.newmusicjukebox.com)

CJS – a music store where you can find the variety of music (www.cjs.co.uk)

MusicMarketplace – a great marketplace where you can listen your music (www.musicmarketplace.com)

Jamming

iJamming – record music by jamming with other musicians (www.ijamming.net/music)

Jamstudio – record all your music and then invite other musicians as well.(www.jamstudio.com)

BanffJam – listen the variety of music by jamming your favourite tracks (www.banffjam.com)

SheetMusicplus – have the music which others will also like (www.sheetmusicplus.com)

imeem – a place where fans can meet their favourite artists and you can download your music for free (www.imeem.com)

Karaoke

PowerKaraoke – offers various converter tools and a software which can create, play and burn CD ( www.powerkaraoke.com)

FreeKaraoke – free karaoke for the music lovers (www.freekaraoke.com)

Karafun – a software with the help of which you can edit your play list (www.karafun.com)

Karaoke – best music karaoke for music lovers ( www.karaoke.com)

LoudKaraoke – karaoke music and songs with best karaoke machines (www.loudkaraoke.com)

Remixing

esnips – enables you to remix your music and listen to others. (www.esnips.com)

MyMusicTools – you can upload music and your favourite tracks and then remix them so that others can hear it. (www.mymusictools.com)

ocremix – collect all your favorite tracks to remix and then post on the web to share it with others. (www.ocremix.com)

evolvingMusic – apply the advance remixing tools in your favourite tracks with www.evolvingmusic.com

remix64 – a world of remixing music where you can remix every kind of music
(www.remix64.com)
Mobile Music Services

bitpipe – a network of mobile music allowing the artists to sell their favourite tracks and share with other music lovers as well.(www.bitpipe.com)

highbeam – contains the huge music for the music lovers where they can share top tracks with their friends (www.highbeam.com)

MobileMusicentertainment – a place where you can listen the music of every kind (www.mobilemusicentertainment.com)
Lyric Databases

sing365 – a place where you can find the hot lyric database of all new and old tracks (www.sing365.com)

Lyricsystem – contains the lyrics from all major artists with their favourite tracks (www.lyricsystem.com)

leolyrics – made for the people to find the alphabetical tracks on the web (www.leolyrics.com)

Lyricfind – the users can search all the music categories on this huge database with ease (www.lyricfind.com)

LyricDatabase – a lyric database for the music lovers to search their favourite tracks on the web (www.lyricdatabase.com)

Web Icons – Cute, Useful…and Free?!?!

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:42:15 +0000

It used to be that finding a nice set of professional looking icons was difficult to do unless you were either a web designer or someone who was willing to fork out some cash for them. No longer; in fact, it’s not uncommon to find beautiful, interesting web icons that you can use personally and professionally at absolutely no cost. Why is that, you ask? Well, icons are pretty cool to make…if you have the time and patience — and the ability — to make them, that is. Most people don’t, but there are graphic artists out there who create icons regularly and put the sets out there for public use as a way of being recognized and having their work out there. Almost like putting out a resume, but with really cute drawings.

Icons are more than just cute drawings, though. They’re extremely important in web design, so much so that many times it is the quality of your icons that can make the difference between dull and interesting. Here, I’ve listed a couple of my favorite free icon sets and some places where you can find many more.

These are just two of the many styles included in the RSS Icons Campaign designed by Design Freak. Their RSS feed icons are ideal for those of you who are looking for a cool-looking, very different take on the boring little feed box that sits on the corners of the websites that we are used to visiting. These little guys can make your design look fresh and modern, with a hint of wit and tons of charm. I am in love with these icons!

This sharp, dynamic YouTube icon is part of an incredibly stylish and sleek group of icons created by Lucas (pho3nix) in Poland. As part of this impressive collection, you will find gorgeous, clean versions of icons for some of your favorite online sites such as Wikipedia and Facebook, making this the perfect set for yourweb page. This set is especially useful if you have pretty good traffic going to some of these sites through your own page. It’s the perfect set for the social media hounds, as well as those who want crisp design and simplicity but don’t want to compromise style. Definitely one of my favorites.

Now, here’s a pretty cool one. Courtesy of the folks at Icon Lab, the “Build Your Own Box” icon set allows you to place whatever items you want inside the boxes, essentially creating your icons in whichever ways you’d like. What I love about this is that it’s gives you, the designer, the creative flexibility to decide what to include in your own icon set. You should be warned, however, that this particular set, however cool it is, is not for the novice user. It requires graphic imaging software so that you can make your icons. When you click on the Icon Lab link above, you’ll be able to download everything you need to enjoy this versatile set, including a how-to video and some friendly instructions.

You can find links and reviews of many other awesome –and free– icon sets here and here. You’ll be guaranteed hours of icon searching fun.

Amazing – 7 Ways to Send Huge Files – Bigger than Gmail

admin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:36:15 +0000

Gmail users have the ability to send up to 20MB of attachments. Sometimes you need more maybe even over 500MB at a time. Businesses especially often have the need to send very large file attachments. Freelance workers, advertisers, small and large companies are a few of those in need. Other people are just people like you and I who want to send the latest and greatest family pictures to our friends and family living further away. Now you have 7 ways to send huge files bigger than Gmail offers.

YouSendIt – Those familiar with sending large files may have heard of this free file sending company. Send up to 100MB files at a time without even registering. You upload the file; they get an email with a link and click to download it. It stays there for seven days. There is a premium service for those who need to send up to 2GB and need more bandwith.

MegaUpload – Send up to 500MB of files. Storage at this site is one of the largest. No need to register and premium service to rid it of ads and speed download time.

zUpload – Easy does it with this file sending site that allows you to send 500MB at a time. Each file has a unique URL and stays online for thirty days. No premium service available it is strictly advertiser supported.

DropSend – Send files up to 1GB with a $5 a month premium account or 250MB at a time for free accounts. Only 5 sends per month with the free service and no account registering necessary. Their desktop client is available in Mac and Windows operating systems.

MailBigFile – This way to send huge files is very similar to YouSendIt. No registering and 100MB file sending limit. There is a Pro account available to send up to 2GB at a time. The limit of downloads per month is 25 so the unlimited bandwith advertised is capped by that.

LeapFILE – This file sending service targets business and enterprise users. The customized branding and security of this company makes its Enterprise Exchange an asset to companies. Private labeled file exchange and a Basic Exchange are available to users for a fee.

Box.net – If you are seeking out ways to send huge files on the internet Box.net is a simple but powerful way to online sending and storage. Whether you are on your home computer, laptop or mobile phone you can take care of your Box.net files. After you upload files onto your storage through the 256-bit secure encryption you can work with them. Send anything from large documents, digital photos, zip files, videos, music to friends, family or business contacts. It is easy to access files on the internet that you use for your mobile telephone with 5GB of storage.

In today’s busy world that is linked online 24/7 make sure you have all the sending power you need to stay in touch with business contacts and those you hold dearest to you heart.

15 Ways to Watch TV Online Free

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:19:30 +0000

Does anyone remember the old school television sets with the wooden cover? It looked like a large coffee table with a picture. You had to get up and actually walk across the room to turn a knob to the few channels you had after you adjusted the rabbit ears. TV hit our home as a small black and white. There was no color, no digital, no stereo sound. Best of all it was free! Those days just like Model T Fords are gone. Now without further wait, here are 15 ways to watch TV online free.

YouTube – If you have not heard of YouTube by now, you must live in a cave. Internet’s number one TV viewing site is packed full of everything you can find and things you might wish you had not found.

Joost – From the authors of Skype comes Joost. It comes with P2P system to deliver content. It has quality video and great content.

Babelgum – This site is similar to Joost with the P2P-based content. It is ad supported content. There is a cap on the daily downloads. There is a variety of interest covered to suit many interests.

Zattoo – This P2P based TV online has over fifty channels you can download from. It is focused on European based viewers.

Veoh – This site encourages you to download and watch the movies from your desktop. In fact, if it is over 45 minutes, they insist.

NGTV – Better known as No Good TV, NGTV is not a g-rated site. It has music, entertainment, bad language and long intros before you get to the good stuff for every episode. Turn this one off for the children.

Getmiro – This site can play any video file made. It has more HD than most any site and thousands of channels to sift through. You can save your YouTube videos here as well.

Dailymotion – One of the biggest video sharing sites around, Dailymotion is as old as YouTube, and nearly as successful. Unlike YouTube, it’s still not sued by every media powerhouse under the sun, so you can still find a lot of good stuff there. For a list of TV series available at Dailymotion, check out this site.

Google Video – Most people know that Google bought out YouTube. However, their videos are still a very large part of the internet. Watch it while you can before they decide to phase it out.

BlinkX – This search engine for video and audio, indexes over 12 million hours of videos. This is a great place to find most any video you are looking for on the net.

ChannelChooser – There is little to annoy viewers at this video portal that has a very large selection of television channels.

Freetube – There are no downloads or subscriptions only categories of shows.

GubaGuba – Video sharing and rental come together at this site packed full of video.

WWITV
Sorted by country get television streamed to your PC.

Blip.TV – Users have created shows. Now they are available here as another way to watch TV online free. There is always something unique.