The Changing Nature of Online Music

The online music landscape is changing quickly and thoroughly. Music blogs are a great source for finding music from like minded individuals that meshes with your style. However, tracking down blogs is sometimes difficult as the best content can be unprofiled, tucked deep in the sprawling blogosphere. But sites like HypeMachine have offered a solution by coalescing syndicated embedded music on a series of blogs and putting it into an easily searchable interface. Most of sites like HypeMachine stick to one genre offering users a hub for delivering a style of music they can count on. HypeMachine in particular has a diverse series of electro and hiphop remixes that will get stuff popping. iTunes and Amazon integration helps the artists by encouraging the legal monetization of online music.

Pandora is another unique music interface that disc jockeys for online visitors based on a formula called the 'Music Genome Project'. Based on a number of criteria including melody, harmony, arrangement and lyrics, stations are created by typing in an artist after which the system shuffles through a series of songs from different artists most corresponding with the style and sound of your initial launching point. Paging through the songs too quickly will give you an error as Pandora has secured the rights for only a limited amount of listens designated per hour for each user. In the battle between the effort to use free file sharing and record companies selling music for outrageous prices, interesting compromises have come. Pandora is one of those innovative and groundbreaking compromises. People listen for free, and find music they like, which they then can purchase, with just a few clicks.