I hate people coming to me and gasping about the fact that I didn’t listen to a particular “famous” artist’s track. I apparently bear weird musical taste. It isn’t even a bit surprising to see music from genres wide apart landing in my Loved tracks list (pop, metal, alternative, classics,  house, psychedelic trance and what not). I tend to associate random memories with the music I listen. Yes, I maintain an year-wise loved tracks list which parallelly is like a diary for me. My archive folder:

I’ve talked about Last FM and Youtube Disco in my previous posts. 22tracks is something I recently came to know. “22tracks.com is a jukebox consisting of 22 playlists of different genres, each playlist filled with 22 tracks, selected by specialized DJs of Amsterdam . 22tracks provides a quick overview of the latest music, promotes new artists and lets you discover new genres.

Youtube is testing a new service. The Youtube Disco. It is a one stop for all your music needs. Where you can listen to all the full music for free with videos. What’s more? There is a tab on the second page that finds you similar artists to the one you entered on the first page. Similar artists are found using some algorithm that comes from user choices. It has some very good advantages over other such services like last.fm and Pandora. Pandora isn’t even available in India.

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Recently a US court fined Jammie Thomas for downloading 24 songs illegally from the Internet. She was laid down a fine of 80,000$ for each song she downloaded, ie 1.92 million of total fine. Recording labels however celebrated victory, this news has fired people against RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) tactics.

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