music streaming sites

A couple of months ago I stumbledupon a very cool music streaming site: 8tracks.com. After using Pandora and Slacker for years, this was something different, as it let users create their own mix of songs and offer a public playlist so other people could enjoy (or hate), comment on it and share their own mixes at the same time. Pretty cool stuff!

I made a mix just to try it out. (http://8tracks.com/maltinej/just-plain-cool-in-auditory-form) It was pretty straightforward. Upload your tracks, enter track information if it is missing, upload a playlist cover picture and thats it!

They even have an i-phone app to listen to mixes – ~~no android app though~~ AND they just announced an android app is on the way

~~An interesting thing is the playback never pauses or stops to buffer as it does with other services like pandora and slacker. Even with slow connections it plays smoothly.~~ Was just using it and it indeed started buffering in a slow connection. I guess buffering and intermittent service it’s inevitable with cloud apps