There is no shortage of ways to listen to music online, whether it’s by creating your own playlists on popular websites like Grooveshark or listening to online radio stations. Playlistnow.fm is a service with a new spin on how to choose what to listen to online.
Rather than listen to music based on your mood, or based on your favourite genre, Playlistnow.fm is all about listening to music according to your situation.
Whether you’re at the office, relaxing, or partying – there’s a playlist for just about every situation you could imagine on the site. Playlistnow.fm is part social network, part online radio. Create your own playlists or listen to other people’s playlists. Playlistnow.fm is not only a great way to listen to music depending on your situation, it also offers a way of discovering songs and artists similar to those you already like.
Playlistnow.fm does not have a registration page, but rather allows you to connect either your Facebook, Twitter or Google account to access the site. It is worth mentioning though, that while they provide a method to revoke permission for access to your account – it doesn’t work. If you change your mind about using Playlistnow.fm – you will have to revoke permission directly through the account you connected to the site.
Once you’ve signed in, you will be prompted to fill in your name, email address and location. If any of your friends from the service you connected are on Playlistnow.fm, you can follow them, and if you want, follow some suggested members including Playlistnow.fm staff members and popular users.
Playlistnow.fm focuses heavily on the social network side of things, with collaborative playlists, allowing you to add songs to other people’s playlists. Another social network feature is a feed of your and your friends’ recent activities on the site. Other users can comment on and ‘like’ each other’s activity on the site.
There are two ways to search for songs on the site. If you use the search bar at the top of the page, the search results are accompanied by a wealth of information.
Song search results are accompanied by the audio track, similar songs, and a list of the playlists the song has been added to. You can ‘like’ the song, comment on it, or add it to your playlist. Artist search results are similar, accompanied by similar artists, a bio, and the available songs from that artist on Playlistnow.fm. If the song you want isn’t on the list, you can expand the search results to include YouTube songs.
You can also preview a song before adding it to your list, share the song via email, Facebook or Twitter. If you don’t feel like creating a situation-related playlist you can add the song to your ‘tiny playlist,’ a public list of your favourite songs, by clicking the heart icon.
To create a playlist, click on the ‘Create a playlist’ button at the top of the page and fill in the fields – the situation, tags, and the category.
On the playlist page, you can then search for songs to add to your playlist. These search results are not accompanied by the information included using the first search method, allowing you only to preview and add songs to the playlist.
If you’d rather browse other people’s playlists, there are several ways to do so. You can browse playlists by tag, by categories, or even through the entire list until you find something that appeals to you.
Playback is controlled by a player at the bottom of the browser screen. Through the player, you can skip and pause songs, set the playlist to play on shuffle or repeat, or share what you’re listening to on Twitter or Facebook, watch the video, or add the song to your tiny playlist.
If there is one major criticism to be made of Playlistnow.fm, it’s that you won’t always find the song or singer that you’re looking for. If your taste in music is less than mainstream, you will struggle to find songs to create your music playlists, despite the fact that the music is partly powered by YouTube videos. If the artist does not have a page on Playlistnow.fm, their YouTube songs won’t show up in search results.
Have you tried out Playlistnow.fm? Let us know what you thought of it in the comments.
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