December 15, 2005

MusicStrands Does Music Search, Too.

Michael Arrington

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If Google Music Search isn’t for you, check out MusicStrands, a young company that relaunched its site yesterday. The company is based in Corvallis, OR (where is that?) and Barcelona, Spain.

MusicStrands had results for every band I threw at it. Lots of stats, and links to buy music from amazon and iTunes. And it has excellent web 2.0 features as well, including social networking, recommendations and user tagging of music. They also have nice support options for small and indie bands, allowing them to get their music into the mix. Basically, MusicStrands is an excellent resource for finding new music.

UPDATE: Klim points out in the comments that Google, unlike MusicStrands, also does lyric searches. Good point.

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pogenwurst

December 15th, 2005 at 5:06 pm

“Corvallis, OR (where is that?)”

OR = Oregon?
Jeremy Pepper

December 15th, 2005 at 10:28 pm

It’s the home of Oregon State University. Go Beavers!
carlos

December 16th, 2005 at 12:33 am

Michael,

Corvallis is in Oregon. It’s 84 miles (S/SE) from Oregon’s most well known city; Portland.

As Jeremy noted, it’s the home of Oregon State University. On the technology front, it’s the home of OSU’s Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org/).
Klim

December 16th, 2005 at 9:42 am

Ya but… where’s the lyric search? Partly what Google is doing is keeping the lyric search alive (from you know who).
Michael Arrington

December 16th, 2005 at 10:17 am

Klim,

That is a really good point that I missed. I’m going to pull this up to the post level.

Mike
dave chase

December 17th, 2005 at 5:25 am

Hopefully one of Oregon State’s most famous alums doesn’t bode ill for MusicStrand Dick Fosbury — inventor of the “Fosbury Flop” is an OSU grad.
Chris Messina

December 17th, 2005 at 8:50 pm

We’ll see how long it takes for the RIAA to shut down Google.

It would also be nice if MusicStrands worked with Last.fm to import my listening habits and give me autorecs. Man, we so need a social network aggregator. I really do not want to reinstantiate my social network… again!