User:Yuhamidaru/stereomood

Overview
Online music streaming  are services that allows the user to listen to music for free.There are various websites available on the internet that lets the user to download and listen to music for free. Some of these are mentioned here- Spotify, iTtunes, Last FM, Stereomood and many others. Most of these sites allow you to listen to the full music tracks rather than just a sample.

History of Online music
The first site to attempt an On-line music streaming site was Internet Underground Music Archive, however this was soon pulled by DMCA for legal reasons. Another one after this was The Store by Sony however this to did not seem to make it as after much research i could not seem to find very much on it and this could be because it did not make it.

There were only two sites after these that seeme to make it and that is iTunes and Napster. However Napster was closed down due to legal reasons but you could say that it was the site that paved the way for more legal sites such as iTtunes,Spotify, Last FM and Stereomood.

Even though iTtunes was one of the first to allow you to listen to music for free legally. iTunes was introduced by Apple in January 2009. It only allowed you to listen to a sample of it, now there are various other sites that allow you to listen to the whole track or even album. They are able to do this legally by advertising throughout the site. There are many sites taking of now the most popular one at the moment so far would be Spotify, with some radio ones such as last fm coming up second to it. Futher more some sites such as Stereomood are allowing you different ways of searching for the music you wish to listen such as with Stereomood you search for tracks depending on the mood you are in.

On line streaming sites seems to be the way forward for listening to music and downloading tracks as they allow user to sample new artists before buying there music therefore allowing greater sales as buyers are no longer taking a risk listening to a new artist.

Spotify
Spotify is a music streaming service. It offers the users a legal and free access to a huge library of music. It allows the user to listen to specific tracks or albums. The user can search the music by artist, album or record list. The users can create and share the playlists with their friends or other users. The user needs to create an account to listen to Spotify's streaming music. To go on to Spotify website, the user needs an invite from a friend. The other way user can go on the website is to buy a premium on the website or to buy a daiy pass. The premium is £9.99/month and the daily pass is £0.99/day. The user can only go free on the website if he has got an invite from a friend. Spotify makes money by advertising on their website and also by selling their daily passes and premium passes. Spotify has links to other websites where users can buy Mp3, specific tracks or albums from other websites. . When the user is on the Spotify, he can listen to music for free.

iTunes
iTunes is a free application for Mac or PC. It lets the user to organize and play their digital music, video, tv shows all on his computer. It also lets the user to synchronize all his media with his iPod, iPhone and apple TV. The user can store all his media collection on to his iTunes library. If the user want to listen to or watch something, he does not have to go through his CD's or flip through various channels, he can just go through his library and play the music or video. Through the iTunes library, the user can browse much faster and can organize everything easier. When the user downloads music or video from iTunes, it is added to iTunes library. The user can search for the music by artist name or title in the search field. The user can also purchase music from iTunes store. iTunes is suported by Windows 2000 and also Windows Vista.

Stereomood
Stereomood is a website where people can listen to music for free according to their emotions or activities. There is a wide range of emotions to choose from, for example: dreamy, energetic, happy or jogging, relax and many more. It is easy to pick your mood as on the homepage there is a tag cloud of emotions and activities to choose from.


 * History

Stereomood has been developed since February 2007 and was founded by Giovanni Ferron, Daniele Novaga, Maurizio Pratici, Eleonora Viviani, (Silvia Pianelli). Stereomood uses resources from last.fm API e.g: album images. This is a beta site it is hoped to be expanded in the future.


 * Features


 * Listen

There are various different ways you can listen to the music. You can either choose to listen to your music via selecting a mood you are in and playing that. Another way would be to type in the band or singer's name you wish to listen to into the search box, and beside the band it will bring up what the playlist is and what "mood" category the band is in.

You can create your own library by clicking on the particular song. The user need to be registered or logged on to Stereomood. The songs can be listened to "all together" or you can listen to one song at time.
 * Library


 * Personal Playlist

You can also listen to your personal playlist. It is very easy and straight forward to create a personal playlist. The user again needs to be registered or logged on to the website. To listen to the music from playlist, the user must have created at least one playlist.


 * Sharing Music

Stereomood allows the user to share the music with their friends or family. If the user finds a track he likes, he can share with his friends by clicking on the 'Share' link on the website.


 * Tags

On the home page of the website, there are various tags that the user can choose from according to his emotions. These tags create the playlist for the users.

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