The Sound of Music
| Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 | --Sean |
Sometimes, you just want to listen to some music. You don't want 30-second tracks, you don't want the hassle of trying to download it, you don't want to have to deal with DRM or other vastly consumer-unfriendly inventions from the RIAA. You might not even want to listen to it again after the first time, but some guy mentioned it and you'd like to see what all the fuss is about.
Sometimes, a tool just does everything right, and this time, it happens to be ours. Check out this Yahoo! Music music blog, about a cool new song from a newly solo musician. The linked song can be played right there in the page, using the always impressive Yahoo! Media Player, but it's actually a full track instead of a truncated sample. You can listen to up to 25 full songs (over some undisclosed period of time -- EDIT: apparently a month), which is perfect because you really ought to buy something after that many plays anyway. I haven't switched to Rhapsody yet (still waiting on our official switch-over from Y!MU), but whenever I do, I'll be able to listen to this song as much as I want, and, hey, I'm encouraged to do so because I finally have a chance to judge in full how much I like it. It's lightweight, hassle-free, and works exactly as I would want it to -- that's music to my ears.