Listen for free with Songza

It's like SeeqPod, except it works ALL the time

There's a new internet-trawling, free-streaming service out there, and it's name is Songza. Actually, the site was launched in November 2007, so by internet standards, it's only newish.

Songza works like SeeqPod and Last.FM's scrobbling method. You type in the band or song (or both) you want to hear, and Songza sends it's spiders out into the web to pull back anything that matches. We like it here at Duck & Cover because we're given the chance to listen to all the fantastic new music being made without spending whole weekends at the record shop (however, to be honest, I haven't spent whole weekends at any record shop since I left Ireland, and only then because I was waiting for the pubs to open. So the 2008 analogy would probably be more like "whole hours sifting through people's personal favorites on Last.FM" "whole days waiting for imeem to something that resembles working.").

While Songza doesn't allow you to embed the tracks you find (which was a blessing and a curse from SeeqPod), it is very fast due to its reliance on JavaScript instead of Flash. As an added bonus, it would appear that the people who use Songza have pretty decent musical tastes. Currently, the top played song is Vampire Weekend's Mansard Roof. Thanks, Songza. . . Thongza.

Comments

Anonymous said…

Hey. Just wanted to let you know that you can embed songs on your site. Just go through the share bit of the pop-up.

14 February, 2008

Jamie said…

Fantastic! Thanks for the tip. I'd completely overlooked the "share" link on the popup.

17 February, 2008

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