-
30+ Awesome Sites for Streaming Music
July 9, 2008 - 11:16 am PDT - by Sean P. Aune 65 Comments
Recently we brought you a list of free & legal music downloads, but we understand that not everyone wants to eat up space on their hard drive or MP3 player. So we’ve compiled a list of 30+ awesome streaming music sites we know you’ll enjoy.Whether you’re interested in general streaming music, mixtapes, music discovery, or more, the Internet offers a plethora of streaming music services. Tell us which are your favorites.
General Streaming
AH.fm - Streaming techno and dance music, as well as a forum for you to discuss with other fans.
AmazingTunes.com - Search for artists you want to hear or choose from a list of stations. Has a pop out player so you can listen as you browse other sites on the Web.
AOL Radio - Powered by CBS Radio, AOL Radio brings you talk, streaming music and actual radio stations.
Deezer.com - Part social network, all music. The site allows you to listen to free streaming music, build your own playlists, share them with friends and even embed music on other sites.
DI.fm - Digitally Imported specializes in streaming electronic and dance music from all around the globe. Also offers premium upgrades for higher bit rates.Free.Napster.com - Free streaming music from Napster that includes full albums.
Grooveshark.com - Build your own playlist, as you go along, save it, and you can listen to it again in the future. Also suggests similar songs and more.
iLike.com - Features a mixture of full songs and samples that you can listen to. An extremely popular app on many social networks.
iTunes - While not a Web application, the vast majority of us have it already installed on our systems. Just click on the “Radio” link and listen to different Internet radio stations from all over the world.
Last.fm - Last.fm follows what you listen to and then makes suggestions of what else you may like, or you can also just dive right in, listening to whatever you feel like.
Live365.com - A mixture of free stations and ones only available to VIP subscribers, it covers just about every genre of music you can think of.
Magnatune.com - A home for independent artists where you can either stream their albums, or buy them by naming your price, starting at $5.00.
MikesRadioWorld.com - A guide to over 5,000 streaming radio stations from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Europe.
MP3.com - Stream the music, or download it free. Lets you jump around choosing the tunes you want to hear.
MusicMesh.net - Start with one album, listen to it in its entirety or just one track, and then check out other artists and albums that are of a similar vein.
RadioTime.com - Collects streams from radio stations from all over, putting them in one easy to use directory.
Real Player - Download Real Player and then play free music via their Rhapsody service.
SHOUTcast.com - Using a program such as Winamp, choose the radio station of your choice from around the world, and “Tune In”.
Slacker.com - Listen to their pre-built stations, or start building one of your own.
Streampad.com - Search for music to listen to, or point it directly to a page you want to listen to, including podcasts.
TheSixtyOne.com - Streams music and then allows you to purchase the tracks via Amazon.com’s MP3 store. Site also has social aspects allowing users to “bump” songs up playlists as well as make leaderboards by building their own playlists.
Yahoo Music - Only works with Internet Explorer (still), but streams music from artists or by station.
Mix Tapes
MeeMix.com - Start exploring your favorite music and similar artists, create your own station and then share it with your friends.Mixwit.com - Like Muxtape, you can create and listen to “mix tapes” and then share them with friends.
Muxtape.com - Not your typical streaming site as users make up their own “mix tapes” of up to 12 songs, and then share them with anyone.
Spinjay.com - Create playlists and have people vote on them to make you a popular “DJ”, or simply browse through the existing ones and listen.
Music Discovery
Blip.fm -A “Twitter” for music that lets you tell others what you are listening to and embeds the music in your post, making an ever growing playlist by following the main timeline of the site. Check out the Mashable Conversations interview with Gavin Hayes, lead singer of Dredg, we did a while back about the site.
Finetune.com - As you find music you like, you can add it to a playlist which you can then embed in your site.
Musicovery.com - Name your “mood” and Musicovery starts playing music based on that. It then follows a progression based on your votes for the song, or you can jump around on the other suggestions on the screen.
Pandora.com - Many people were depressed when Pandora had to shut down its non-U.S. streams, but the site lives on. Enter the name of a song or artist you like, the site analyzes it, and builds a channel on that style of music.
Soundpedia.com - Similar to Pandora in that you start with artist and then it builds a station based on that style/genre of music.
Music Search
Dizzler.com - Search for streaming music, radio stations, video and more.
Jiwa.fm - Search for music you like and Jiwa will search for streams of it.
SeeqPod.com - Even though its legality has been called into question, Seeqpod allows you to search the Internet for publicly available MP3s for you to listen to.
Skreemr.com - Like SeeqPod, Skreemr allows you to search for all of those allusive tracks you’d rather just listen to then admit you have them on your iPod.
[image credit: hryckowian]
-
Related Posts
-
Vote For Your Favorite Website
Trackbacks
65 Comments
Great list there Sean
Pandora is one of my fav there, and for searching music, i use Dizzler!
Bravos, cool post. AccuTunes merits a mention. Winner of Webby People’s Choice Award (Radio).
I keep flip-flopping between Last.fm, Pandora, and Slacker - they all have their strengths and weaknesses… usually Slacker wins out for features and customizability, Pandora for discovery, and Last.fm for tag/mood specific listening
I’m a Slacker
I’ve ended up listening to Slacker almost exclusively now…good list, thanks!
Still missing good ol’ Hype Machine…
I like Playlist.com for embeddable playlists/mixtapes of mp3s on the web. Interface is a bit more user-friendly than Seeqpod, IMHO. and I LOVE blip.fm!
This is waay too many choices–I have settled down on Pandora.
Ok, I am jaded again and will proceed to trying a bunch of these out.
Also check out http://www.channelservice.fm
Another annoyed reader for the lack of hypem.com - Hype Machine. Simply elegant in concept and implementation.
the ‘trend’ im enthusiastic about is bands that have their music available online, no holds barred.
im also encouraged by the torrenting textbook trend… “the future is free”
Slacker is also really great for music discovery. You can adjust how much “discovery” you want and it also gives listers full band bios with images as well as album reviews for each track that is played.
Makes it nice to hear new music and learn about bands.
yeah, Slacker worked great for a while, but then the “undiscovered” bands it gave me were always the same… so it got a little repetitive. The best I could do was to reseed it with the FineTune sliders to give a slightly new pack of songs… but I ended up getting a lot of repeats.
In addition I can recommend tunesbag -> Music is a social issue, so tunesBag allows you to share your library and playlists with your friends
http://www.tunesbag.com
For some great streaming Christian music check out http://christianityradio.com.
I love iTunes Radio!
anywhere.fm? Why no mention?
Good list.
You should try Fairtilizer. fairtilizer.com
Great list - definitely look forward to trying out some of these sites. I’m always looking for good streaming music sites.
Try mine out as well - T-Mad’s Music. The site has had a presence on the Internet since August, 1997 (with a brief hiatus - got married).
Free site but requires sign up with username and password to listen. Streaming soul/R&B, funk, P-Funk, jazz, disco, old school rap, house, neosoul, and other forms of less commercial music. Also has a full blog area, complete with RSS feed.
we need a list like this for Canadian sites!
I Like the List.. !! I Love Music.. n its ReallY good to find all such sites.. over the market .. u can check My Website .. http://www.globalindiamart.com
Its have Some Awesome Site n Collectionz of Music audio Video Phones.. too rock these Music World Websites.. u Must Add some Bollywood World.. too
http://www.smashits.com
http://www.raaga.com
Here is one more for the masses!
http://www.megashuffle.com/
Where’s Streamzy on this list?
beatbuggy.com is another good one for free instrumentals.
SOMA FM - tis all I need.
Dude, where’s Jango.com?
Here you can listen to songs recorded from radiostations, make playlists or download mp3:s.
This one lets you search for mp3s, stream them and put them in a playlist you can embed on your own site or myspace profile, etc.
http://www.musicbawx.com/
also checkout http://www.musichostnetwork.com
in addition to hype machine, what about imeem? did i miss it?
Hey People,
I have a great site to add to your list! http://Somafm.com
Various channels and commercial free! Clickhops is my favorite.
You should add Jango to the music discovery section - one of my favorites.
http://www.jango.com
I love http://www.1.fm … Jamz is the the best streaming hip hop station out there! They should have gotten mentioned
Heres one more: http://www.planetradiocity.com…u can listen to music and also get all the latest info about ur fav music and singer/composer. Also get lyrics and meet others who like your kinda music. Spread the word about your favourite music.
I have to say I spend 1 hour listening throught that list. AH.FM All i have to say is wow!!! i just found my new home for Trance.. looks like its all FREE 192k and they support all players (quicktime) for me.
Its all exclusive dj live sets, but best of all their community of fans is HUGE!!!
thank you for this, hugs
Good list for music lovers.
Thanks
http://www.toputop.com
i use http://www.beatport.com, pretty cute
I was once a Pandora devotee, but for music discovery, Slacker rules.
But when you know what you want, and you want a playlist to share with others…check out IMEEM.
http://www.Imeem.com
Of course….now I am going to have a good look at this list and try a bunch of them, maybe the grass is greener someplace else?
free.napster.com is great, but upgrading to the full napster is better on the sound quality front. sure, you’ve got to pay, but you can do a lot more than just listen for that $13 a month.
I listen to imeem every day as background music at work. You can create your own playlists (I have at least a dozen) and it is rare for me to not be able to find a song I like. Project Playlist was my favorite site until too many of their songs came up missing, ruining my playlists. imeem’s lists are easier to update if, on a rare occasion, a song should disappear into the ether.
this one has alot of music videos from youtube, dailymotion, myspace, etc
this one has alot of music videos from youtube, dailymotion, myspace, etc
http://www.noolmusic.com
http://www.HyLitRadio.com Great Oldies and Jingles, Live from Philadelphia
http;//www.HyLitRhythm.com The Rhythm of Your Life, The Sound of Philadelphia.
what about jogli? the best music site in the neighborhood
Hey, so I just made a piczo site and it looks so awesome but it seemed that something was missing. Than I realized I should add some music so my friend recommended a really cool site.www.hypster.com. It’s so quick and easy,anyone could do it! In a matter of minuets I had made a account and uploaded the music onto my music player,not only that but You can also edit your music player to match your site colours! and if you don’t want to upload your own music,you can search on other users playlists and take any songs you want! It works for piczo,myspace,facebook,bebo etc. check it out! http://www.hypster.com
Myspace Playlist”
You should definitely check out AccuRadio (and its Webby-award winning interface, AccuTunes). I like Pandora and last.fm, but sometimes I don’t want to hear the same thing over and over again for very long. The AccuRadio subchannel system makes for really widely varying programming while still being tailored to more specific tastes.
http://www.anywherefm.com
You guys missed one of the best music sites out there.
Ciao
Thomas