Jammed: Full into Capacity

Recently, I posted about GlobalPandora which allows non-US residents to listen to Pandora without using any proxies. However, due maybe to the million hits and overwhelming traffic from its international users (it was said that more than 50% of listeners are outside the US), they’ve been having server glitches and technical problems these past days. When I visit the site last night, the box was closed… again. *lets out a sigh*

Hmmm, could it be that my IP address was detected as US because I have successfully signed up using a US Zip code? I could access the original Pandora, though, through proxies. But, again, they are down for maintenance.

Fortunately though, GlobalPandora recommended similar sites such as Jango, Imeem, and others. I also looked for more similar sites that maybe good alternatives to or even better than Pandora.

- Jango was dubbed as the Social Internet Radio. This works like Pandora. You create your stations through searching for the artist, can right away listen to his/her songs and from related artists. You can add as much artists as you want. You can also rate the song which will affect future streaming - if you want to play it more, less or never.

With Jango, you can tune in to other people’s stations - and they can tune in to yours! In your player, you’ll see who’s listening to the same music as you, who’s listening to your stations, and what your friends are playing.

- Social FM. Social·fm enables social music discovery and recommendations through connections with your friends, family and other users with similar musical preferences. Social Fm is powered by DJs and music listeners. Social.fm also offers artist information - biography, discography, videos, etc.

Social.fm can be a desktop or mobile application or as a widget to social networking sites like MySpace, Friendster and Xanga.com or even to your own blog or site, letting you to share your favorite music and top artists with friends.

- Last.fm - the world’s largest social music platform which offers customised “radio stations” consisting of uninterrupted audio streams of individual tracks selected from the music files in the music library.

Using a unique music recommendation system known as “Audioscrobbler”, Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user’s musical taste by recording details of all the songs the user listens to, either on the streamed radio stations or on the user’s computer or portable music device. This information is transferred to Last.fm’s database (”scrobbled”) via a plugin installed into the user’s music player. The profile data is displayed on a personal web page. The site offers numerous social networking features and can recommend and play artists similar to the user’s favourites. WikiPedia.com

Imeem - Users interact with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video.You can create playlists from user-uploaded media.

Soundpedia is a social community and music discovery search engine that helps you find and enjoy music throughout the web. You can create playlists, share your playlists, and browse playlists of other members. You can also connect with people who are as passionate as you about music.

Soundpedia has recently launched its new service which allows its users to upload their own playlists (.asx, .pls, .xml, .txt and .m3u are supported).

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Seeqpod is a music search engine, with over 8 million songs indexed. Seeqpod’s player is embeddable and will automatically find music videos while you listen to songs. Users can also create their own playlists. It allows users to search for and discover audio and video all over the Web. They have software robots which work with targeted crawling systems to auto-submit links to content to the search index. This, combined with user URL submissions, results in a large and rich search and discovery index.

BlogMusic (now Deezer.com), RadioBlogClub, Musicovery and Meemix also offer online streaming based on your searched artists, as well as related ones.

You may ask, “Why do I always bother to look for music online when I can buy or download some and listen conveniently offline?” I’ve been a fan of internet radio and music communities because I prefer listening online because it saves me up time and money to download my favorite songs. And it saves up some hard disk space, too!

Whew! That was one heck of a list. You can add yours, too, by commenting below.

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