Music Listening Online

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The Internet has completely changed the traditional music business model with online distribution and sharing. The following Web sites and online services enhance one's music listening and discovery experience.

last.fm - builds a profile of music listened to and recommends similar artists
soundamus - notifies via RSS about upcoming music releases from artists in last.fm profile (i.e. it updates the artists as last.fm profile is updated)
The Hype Machine - scours blogs for full length MP3s and makes it easy to search, listen, and bookmark/favourite songs
Favtape.com - streams full length songs; search music and save favourites to a customized online 'mix tape'
woxy.com - online modern/indie rock station that streams commercial free; also has a retro/vintage stream
radioxy - online modern/indie rock station; commercial and dj free
Digitally Imported - online streaming music (mostly electronic) with minimal, if any, commercial breaks; multiple channels and genres

One online service that continually connects you to many other music-related services is last.fm. Last.fm can track one's music listening habits, building a profile of the music listened to. Once that profile is established (one that is always updating on-the-fly) that information can be used to connect with other services that make use of that information. With it always updating by itself there's no need to always be inputting new bands into various profiles.