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A review of three streaming music services (mixtape.me, 8tracks, Grooveshark) that let you create a playlist online and share it with friends.

On Tracks on a Map you can listen to SoundCloud tracks from around the world from any genre. Just click a city to start the fun!

"People's Music Store is a newly launched DIY online music store. It was created by the founder of MP3 reseller Bleep.com, Ged Day. People's Music Store styles itself as "the first music store entirely powered by music fans." Basically the service allows you to set up your own custom-designed record store, with music chosen from a catalogue of indie record labels (so far no major record label music). The idea is that you earn points, equivalent to 10% of the price of the single, EP or album that you sell. These points can only be used to buy other music items on the People's Music Store site. There are more than 650 stores currently, with over 250,000 songs in the catalogue - most appear to be available at $0.99 per song or $8.99 per album. The site claims to be "working with" 4,500 labels, including 4AD, XL, Rough Trade, Matador, Dominio, and Ged Day's own Warp. Other than the lack of major label music, there is another minor annoyance for those of us who don't live in the U.S. - international users will frequently run into a "we're sorry, but this release is not available in your country" message. However on the plus side, all the music available for download is DRM-free and at high quality 320Kbps." [reawriteweb]

Similar to Seeqpod, Mixtape.me "grabs music from around the web, notably from Seeqpod, and does a great job of letting you make and browse playlists in an environment reminiscent of desktop music players. You don't need an account to create a Quick Playlist on mixtape.me. You can just start adding tracks from searches and other people's playlists. Registering an account lets you add (but not upload) mp3s and save your playlists. There are also a lot of extra touches, like grabbing song info, lyrics and album artwork automatically. You can also share your playlists easily, even with friends who aren't signed up with Mixtape.me." [downloadsquad]

"Similiar to Seeqpod and Songza, Just Hear It offers registered and unregistered users alike a seamless interface for song search and playlist creation, all from within the browser. Just Hear It claims to be completely legal, following DMCA guidelines, and paying royalties to all of the major performing-rights organizations, like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. In the future, Just Hear It aims to negotiate licenses to share revenue with labels. Currently, much of the music actually seems to come from YouTubeYouTube reviewsYouTube reviews - much like another site we recently reviewed, StreamDrag." - Mashable

Add your music to listen from anywhere. Save playlists.

8tracks is a simple way for people to create or listen to a mix, a short playlist containing at least 30 minutes—roughly 8 tracks—of music.

Jogli is a music search engine claiming a catalog of 12+ million albums and 500+ million songs. It's an amazing service, built primarly on top of YouTube content. Search for a band and they'll show you a link for that band's details as well as albums, video clips, and user-created playlists. Jogli recreates albums from YouTube clips and other free services. If you don't like the version of the song they've selected, click the “Get alternatives for this song” link to see what else they have. [jamtopia] With the Jogli Widget, now you can embed albums and playlists in your web pages.

TinySong gives you a short links to songs that you find that make it easy to share songs. Powered by Grooveshark.

Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other sites with an embeddable player. working example: http://the-music-snob.net/Playlists/obsessedvol1/

"Muxtape is also really cool," Sit explained, "but you need to manually upload the MP3s, which makes it a drag to create a muxtape and update it." FavTape solves both problems by grabbing song URLs from SeeqPod to power an on-demand service that creates Muxtape-like web page mixtapes out of your Pandora or Last.fm favorites.

Share your home library with your friends over the internet, using iTunes or Winamp.

"MediaMaster is a media storage service that lets you upload your digital music collection. You can publish your music collection on blogs and social networks with a widget." [http://rocketsurgeon.squarespace.com/]

Seeqpod offers a fast way too search for mp3's, and videos for any artist. Add what you like from the results to a playlist that you play, save and share.