Audiolizer is a new music streaming service that lets you put your iTunes library in the cloud. After uploading your iTunes Library database file, the site will automatically compile a list of links to every song, allowing you to access your favorite music when you’re away from your home computer. Users can also manually search for individual songs.
As with a number of streaming audio sites, Audiolizer makes use of the YouTube API to serve its music (this ostensibly makes them less of a target for lawsuits, as they aren’t hosting any music). The system seems to work fairly well, through the presentation is strange – the “music video” shown alongside the player is only thumbnailed sized for some reason. You can still access the full sized video by clicking on the thumbnail, but it’s a bit odd.
Audiolizer would have been a great site if it came out at the beginning of this year – I love being able to have my iTunes library in the cloud. But SonicSwap does almost the same thing with a nicer interface. And then there’s LaLa which effectively makes both services obsolete: instead of using YouTube as a source of audio content (which can sometimes lead to incorrect results), Lala has forged deals with all the major record labels, so the majority of your music in streamed at a reasonably high quality bitrate with few false matches (check out our previous coverage for more on the cool service).
Fortunately, it sounds like Audiolizer is more of a side project than a full-fledged startup – the founders say that they developed the site in a week (they’re currently University students in Computer Engineering and Business Management in Canada).
Also, as an amusing sidenote, a TechCrunch user named Clayton came up with the domain name Audiolizer.com in a comment back in October. Looks like someone took his suggestion.
Thanks you Jason
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I’m in no way affiliated, but I just want to comment here on how good LaLa really is. I really hope their business model gets enough traction to replace the old, broken one.
Even for songs you don’t already own, LaLa is free to stream any song (there are few I can’t find) once, then 10cents ($0.10) for unlimited streaming of a song, and then that 10cents counts towards purchasing an 89cents DRM-free MP3 file, if you want to download it.
It’s the “Future of Music” business model put into practice… and again, I’m unaffiliated.
Lala looks good, but I’m Canadian and Lala is restricted to the US only.
Audiolizer is at least open to everyone, and has a super easy to use interface.
Qloud’s been doing this for 2.5 years and has way more users and a much better interface both in Faebook and at Qloud.com.
Also, qloud has a way to vote on the YouTube videos displayed so when you click to play you’re more likely to get a good video
a simple test
I’ve got mashup along the same lines, but done specifically for the iPhone. Integrates your itunes library with Youtube, Lyrics, Twitter, Photos, and more.
Won Yahoo’s Mashup contest at Mashup camp.
check it out on your iPhone or Safari/Firefox browser
http://imusicmash.com
I prefer Jooque.com. Rough around the edges but a little nicer interface.
i think Jooque.com is not as good, but I like it
very useful information. thank you
Once you try Spotify nothing compares. You start to wonder why all music, tv and movies isn’t delivered the way Spotify delivers content.
I’m with Tollie. I use a combination of Pandora and Lala and could not be happier: Pandora for discovering music, and Lala for managing 40GB of mp3s and for purchasing new music. It’s a solid app. Now if only Lala could stream to my blackberry…
I have no affiliation with lala beyond being a happy user.
What if Apple / iTunes developed directly this type of service ?
u bet I am sure they are listening to you and working on this
I’ve been using http://www.maestro.fm for a while now to access my iTunes library from anywhere. It is a great alternative to lala and definitely much better than audiolizer.
i wonder if this will really help the already crowded music space ?
Lala seems good. But i cant listen any music when waiting for loading a long time.
I prefer Jooque.com. Rough around the edges but a little nicer interface.
thank you
I can not believe no one has mentioned Slacker.com as a way to discover new music! You “create” stations based on songs and artists you like, and then you can “fine tune” the station to include tracks that are… more recent releases or older tracks; less known or well known; ones you have favored or tunes you don’t know. Seriously. A VERY sweet site/application (for iPhone). Can have free, or 2 levels of paid service (that enable you to “hold” tracks on your computer or iPhone and listen to them whenever you’d like). Free version only allows 6 skips per channel, per hour. But all you need to do is change channels or make a channel from the song you were listening to.
Go check it out.
It’s amazing and for Future of Music
Lala looks good, but I’m Canadian and Lala is restricted to the US only.
Audiolizer is at least open to everyone, and has a super easy to use interface.