Musicovery visualizes genres
UK based Musicovery is a music discovery service not too different from Pandora. Instead of choosing specific bands, albums, or songs, you simply click on a variety of sliders and buttons, including the ability to hone in on specific genres.
Currently, you’re able to choose a genre, date, mood, or dance tempo for your stream. Musicovery then displays a colorful map of your personalized song playlist. You can skip around the playlist and choose a specific song to play. However, just like Pandora, there isn’t a way to play a specific song, nor is there a way to systematically go back to songs that were played.
Overall, I like how Musicovery lays out all the songs in a virtual playlist map. It allows you to easily see at a glance the energy level and genre of each song being played. However, I still prefer Pandora’s method of choosing genres based on specific artists and songs.
Categories - Music, Musicovery | 
January 1st, 2007 at 4:46 pm
[…] Pandora o Last.fm te permiten escoger autores, álbumes, géneros, grupos… y organizar tus listas de reproducción. Musicovery (recogido en Shoutblog) es más intuitivo y genérico. Escoges, en una especie de mando a distancia situado a la izquierda de la página, un tipo de música de los ejes Tranquilo-Energético o Oscuro-Positivo, o bien de una lista estándar de tipos (reggae, rock, rap, jazz, pop, latino…) A la derecha se despliega un mapa conceptual, en el que los nodos o botones son canciones, coloreadas según su carácter y afinidad con el parámetro escogido. Click en un botón y suena la música. Además de la organización visual, destaca la carga de los archivos, realmente rapidísima. […]
January 18th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
[…] Shoutblog […]