My Music Is Where I Want You To Touch..

Music is such an essential part of life. For me, nothing is better than the feeling of discovering new and enjoyable music to listen to. I've done my fair share of research in this topic for personal benefit and would like to share what I've discovered. Below is a list of three (free) valuable resources for music which I often use. Enjoy!

stereomood

Purpose: To somewhat randomly find songs to my liking when I am in particular moods.

Details: This website hosts many free tracks which allows the user to select based on the mood that you are in, or music which would best suite a certain activity. (examples: MOOD - calm, gangsta, high, lonely; ACTIVITY - busy as a bee, cooking time, making love, sunday morning.) I find this site quite useful and with Firefox I'm actually able to rip music from it using the DownloadHelper add-on.

Pandora

Purpose: To listen to a mix from an artist or genre you like, as well as associated similar artists or music within that genre.

Details: Pandora is still free as far as I know. I use it on my iPhone at the gym or stream it from my laptop. Unfortunately you have to listen to 30 second ad clips randomly while listening to a 'station'.


iTunes Radio

Purpose: To listen to live streaming Internet radio stations.

Details: Not many people know about this feature of iTunes. To access, open iTunes then go to 'Library' on the top left hand side of the program followed by the 'Radio' tab. Now you can access whichever genre you are interested in listening to. Two of my particular favorites to listen to are 'dubstep.fm' and 'dubterrain.net'.

torrentz.com

Purpose: To download full music albums, movies, television episodes.

Details: This website is a search utility to download torrent files. You will need to download a program to access torrent files such as the one I use 'uTorrent.' You also should note that with using torrents there is a risk that you could download potentially threatening files to your computer and should be cautious.

playlist.com

Purpose: To search and listen to single tracks, or multiple songs from an artist or group.

Details: see above.