imeem.com

Here's a wonderful little music streaming site that Atha introduced to me a while back.

imeem.com

I have no idea what imeem stands for, actually, and I haven't really explored it.

Basically, what it is, is a music streaming site. It operates like a social networking site very much similar MySpace or Facebook. The main thing that happens on imeem, however, is music sharing.

It's different from file sharing programs like limewire because it doesn't actually let you download music from other people. What the site allows you to do is upload your own music (i.e. mp3) on to this website. You can also upload videos. Further, you can also make playlists.

For example, let's say you had a great collection of Indie Folk music (e.g. Iron & Wine, William Fitzsimmons, Gregory and the Hawk, etc) and you wanted to compile them all into a playlist. You might think, I could do this on iTunes. True. But with imeem, you can share this play list with other Indie Folk music enthusiasts.

That said, you can also search for different types of playlists. Let's say I'm looking for a bunch of Brazillian music. I simply type in "Brazillian Music" into the search engine and it will give me a bunch of people, music, playlists, videos, and so forth that relate to Brazillian Music. I click what I want - usually, for me, that means a playlist - and then presto! you have a playlist.

The one downside of this is that due to copyright laws, some songs you can only stream for 30 seconds. There are those people who find the full version or upload them and make the playlists, but a lot of them still only have 30 second clips of songs. But, you can click the '30sec' button on the player, and it'll de-click all the 30 second samples so you only listen to the full versions in the playlist.

This is seriously saving me at work. I just plug my head phones in and listen to imeem all day. That way I don't have to worry about using up the battery for my iPod, and I can listen to music that I don't have on iTunes or my iPod, especially those that are fleeting cravings or songs I don't want to buy or download.

Cool? I know. Now go click on imeem and start exploring!

Happy streaming :D