60+ Web 2.0 Audio Applications you really need to know

Posted on September 9, 2007
Filed Under web 2.0 news

With hundreds of new applications coming up everyday it’s getting hard to identify those that are worth spending time on.

Let me introduce 60+ Web 2.0 Audio Applications you really need to know. I hope you will find this description useful, but feel free to tell me about applications that I haven’t added, but are good enough to be introduced.

Spactor
Spactor.com is a fully automated real-time media search currently searching within more than 75 German speaking TV and radio channels with even more to come, national and international as also podcasts and videocasts

MyStrands
MyStrands.tv feeds your eyes as well as your ears with music that you love by creating your very own channel based on your musical tastes. Your MyStrands.tv channel is as diverse as the music you listen to – as your musical preferences evolve, so will your channel.

Contrastream
Contrastream helps people find the best new independent music quickly. Independent music fans now have a reliable source to find music through community recommended albums.

UPlayMe
uPlayMe is free software that works with your media player like windows media player, iTunes, Winamp, (and many more in the future) and then tells you by sending an alert message to your desktop that someone else is playing the same song or video you just played. Then you can speak with each other through anonymous e-mails, instant messages or social network sites like MySpace.com. uPlayMe helps people find friends, new songs and new videos

Deezer
Deezer provides music on demand with no restrictions: listening to all kinds of music is now free, unlimited, legal and accessible to all Internet users via a Web browser. The site was created in France in June 2006 by Daniel Marhely and Jonathan Benassaya,and has been translated into 16 languages. Deezer.com offers all kinds of musical styles through hundreds of thousands of different tracks, and adds to its catalogue on a daily basis.

Skreem R
SkreemR is a search engine for locating audio files on the web. It doesn’t actually host any files–it indexes what exists on the publicly accessible reaches of the internet. The founders’ goal is to make this content as searchable and useable to the internet community as possible.

Sonific
Sonific was founded in July 2005, with the mission of making large catalogs of great music available for many types of audio-visual use on the Internet, both for private / non-commercial or promotional purposes, as well as for professional (B2B) users, and licensed products and services.

Audiofarm
Audiofarm was founded in 2006 by Konstantinos Gerodimos to make it easier for people, artists, sound designers, (net)labels etc. to store, search, organize and share high-quality and low-quality audio on the web.

Scouta
Scouta provides you with personal recommendations for video and podcasts that suit your interests and tastes. It does this based on your favorite online videos or podcasts that you bookmark in your My Scouta account.

WaZatSong
More generally, WatZatSong is a music discovery and sharing website based on helping each other. Simple but effective.

Anywhere.FM
Anywhere allows you to upload your music collection and listen to it no matter where you are. Pretty useful for very mobile people or people without an IPod.

TUN3R
TUN3R is a virtual AM/FM dial complete with [orange] tuning needle. Simply by dragging the Needle around the Dial, you can instantly hear [reduced] audio samples from hundreds of stations around the world. TUN3R is also equipped with powerful search features to help you guide you browsing by: Song & Artist; Language; Genre (e.g. pop, rock, talk); and even the contents of the stations home page.

Indaba Music
Indaba Music is an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places. It makes finding other people, and working on recording, mixing, or mastering projects easier. For fans, Indaba provides unprecedented access to artists and to the creative process.

Chinswing
Chinswing has launched a public beta of a new voice-based message board that combines features of podcasting, text message boards, and live voice chat. By adding voice messages to topical discussions, users can share similar interests with others. Using this asynchronous method of audio messaging, the conversations evolve over hours, days or even weeks.

MixerCast
With MixerCast users mix their media with legal, professionally created content to make their own channels, movies, music videos, photo galleries, killer ads or personal RSS feeds.Users link to any site where their media is stored them publish channels to any site. Any MixerCast can be embedded on Myspace, a blog page or anywhere on the Web.

SessionSound
SessionSound helps artists become popular by providing access to online audiences.

tabBasket
tabBasket is basically a guitar tab management tool allowing you to keep “tabs” of your guitar tabs.

Jaxtr
It’s not exactly the kind of stuff that fits this category, but is nice. Jaxtr the mission to bring voice to social networks and blogs. With the free jaxtr service, users can link their phones with their online network to hear from callers worldwide while keeping their existing phone numbers private.

iJigg
iJigg is an excellent site that I would call Digg for music. Voting system is obviously enabled to give voice to the masses.

GrooveShark
GrooveShark music community that rewards users for sharing their music. Grooveshark was founded by three University of Florida students hell-bent on changing the music industry, and the world, forever. Grooveshark’s goal is to compensate everyone in the value chain – from users to rights’ holders.

One Llama
One Llama develops acoustic analysis, cultural analysis and collaborative filtering tools for music and video navigation, discovery and search. One Llama provides its software to online media aggregators, distributors, and stores interested in improving the way their customers navigate and search for audio assets.

MOG
MOG makes it easy to find new music, watch music videos, and read news and reviews that match your personal taste in music.

FineTune
FineTune is a popular online music library that is very simple to use.

Imeem
imeem is an online community where artists, fans & friends can promote their content, share their tastes, and discover new blogs, photos, music and video.

TalkShoe
TalkShoe is a service that enables anyone to easily create, join, or listen to Live Interactive Podcasts & Audioblogs.

TourCaster
TourCaster the largest online library of downloadable tours for iPods and mp3 players.

Midomi
Midomi powered by your voice. Sing, hum, or whistle to instantly find your favorite music and connect with a community that shares your musical interests.

Soundsnap
Soundsnap is a free online sound library and community for sound designers and producers. People can upload sounds and share them with the world.

SeeqPod
SeeqPod is the home for playable search results. SeeqPod’s vertically targeted crawlers crawl the deepest parts of the web to enable internet-wide search & discovery of anything that can be played or shared with friends.

Buzznet
Buzznet allows web users to program dynamic multimedia communities around the music and pop culture topics they are most passionate about.

StreamPad
Streampad is an Internet audio player. Good enough to spend few hours on it.

Utrecht
Utrecht is a media search engine specifically designed for finding music videos on the Youtube.com.

Nimbit
Nimbit provides artists with more opportunities to sell and distribute your music – and to build a loyal and passionate fan base – than ever before.

Soundpedia
Soundpedia is a music sharing community that helps users discover great new tunes, find old favorites, share them with friends, family and strangers.

Spool
Spool is an online music player that seems to have potential, but it will take it some time to take off. Graphics is bit poor, usability is not good yet.

Sounds Like Now
Sounds Like Now is a nice tool to find related artists. A bit like last.fm or Pandora, but not so sophisticated as it is supposed to be.

Streampad
Streampad is a full-featured music application that runs inside a web browser. Streampad is a mashup of many different sites and services.

iLike
The iLike Sidebar for iTunes* scans your music library, recommends new music, and helps you connect musically with your friends and the broader iLike community.

PodOmatic
PodOmatic is the largest and most widely used service for creating and hosting podcasts.

Tourb.us
Tourb.us is a way to find the live music in your area. Hear about shows ahead of time, get reminded when your favorite bands come to town and contribute to a community focused on live music. We want to make it much easier for fans to see the bands they like and discover new music.

Last.fm
Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalised to you.

more sites will be added soon

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