Filed under: Audio, Internet, Web services, Social Software
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 simple 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 each 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 each 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.
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