Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Looking for Independed Music? Check out Indy
Posted by James Fee in "CONTENT" @ 10:00 AM
"One excuse often flaunted by people who frequent file sharing services is the idea that file sharing offers a way to try out new music before wasting money on something they later hate. This idea has merit but is ultimately invalidated by the fact that most of the music available through the popular file sharing services is popular music widely available through legitimate means of acquisition at affordable prices. The true discovery of new music is made by stepping outside the realm of popular music available a mass market retail, instead listening to musicians flying under the radar of popular radio and mass market distribution. This is concept behind Indy, a custom radio app that randomly finds independent music online for you to listen to and downloads it to your hard drive. As you listen to songs, you are provided with the option to rate them. Ratings are used to determine what other tracks you might like based on the preferences of other anonymous users who also rated similar songs highly."
A pretty interesting concept. Getting independent music exposure is never easy and even when you want to find some, it is hard to search for music you might like. Well Indy attempts to do this for you by looking at what you like vs what you don't like by your rating them.
A pretty interesting concept. Getting independent music exposure is never easy and even when you want to find some, it is hard to search for music you might like. Well Indy attempts to do this for you by looking at what you like vs what you don't like by your rating them.
