Richard MacManus, a famous American science and technology blogger, has published an article on its blog web site read-write network (read/writeweb), Richard Mcmanus this week as a read-write network of music weeks, So he decided to compare a few of the leading music streaming services. He used this week's poll to determine the top five service websites. As of press, the five sites voted ahead of other music service sites, respectively, Last.fm, Pandora, and Yahoo Music (yahoo Music), itunes service and Rhapsody.
While testing the performance of the five music service sites, he wants to see if he can find his favorite band, The Velvet Undergruond, the "Underground Velvet" (VU). If so, he would like to be able to play music like a singer or be able to offer him a personalized music listening experience. After all, personalization is an important part of Web 2.0.
Last.fm
Mcmanus uses last.fm very much, and one of the things that this site does well is to provide custom music streaming services based on singers. This is the first five songs including Vu: 1, Vu's "head Held High"; 2, Pixies's "Havalina"; 3. Smashing Pumpkins's "beautiful"; 4, Weezer's "Getchoo"; 5. Nico Das Lied Der deuschen. These songs are Mcmanus favorite, they are the combination of modern rock and pop music (Nico album). In other words, Vu is great. Mcmanus gave Last.fm a rating of 4.5/5.
Pandora
Mcmanus said unfortunately he was no longer able to access Pandora because he didn't live in the United States. Here's what he said the same day when he wrote the article: "We are extremely sorry to say that because of copyright restrictions, we are no longer able to access Pandora for most listeners outside of the United States." "So he commissioned Josh Catone, who lives on the east coast of the United States, to see how the bands, including Vu, were on Pandora." The message is: 1, Vu's "Rock & Roll"; 2, The Beatles's "No Reply"; 3, The Kinks's "Picture book"; 4. The Who's "tattoo" 5, Vu's "Lisa Says".
This is a good and diverse choice. In contrast, Last.fm is contemporary, and Pandora's choice comes from the 60 and 70 of the last century. Mcmanus says he appreciates Last.fm because VU actually affects every rock band in the 80, 90 and 21st century. But the music is timeless, and Pandora's songs are wonderful. Mcmanus's rating is 4/5.
Yahoo Music
Mcmanus said he chose to "create radio station" on the home page of Yahoo Music, so the page went to LAUNCHcast radio service. Above is a list of the series of singers that are arranged for selection. Mcmanus ignored the list of singers and went directly to the bottom of the page and chose Vu. Unfortunately, the "Error 5" page appears after the click:
It means that OS X is not supported, Mcmanus checks the Help file, and the Help file says: "At present, we do not support LAUNCHcast Radio for Macintosh or Firefox under Windows." So Mcmanus said he gave up the Yahoo music service. Because of the very poor compatibility, he scored 0/5 on the site.
itunes Music service
Mcmanus said he opened his itunes app and clicked "Radio". But there is no way to get into a singer or to search a singer. Only the radio directory, which is really a big space for the choice, Apple is to rely on this to achieve success. But only if you want to get online now, this is a referral and personalized service, just like the scope of Last.fm and Pandora. So Mcmanus gives the itunes music service a rating of 2.5/5 because the service offers some basic and extensive services, but no innovation.
Rhapsody
Rhapsody's homepage has a good "free listening" search option, which is an excellent way to attract people to sign up for a fee-based service. Mcmanus type "The Velvet Underground" and enter a resume page. At the bottom of this resume page, Mcmanus saw a link called the "Velvet Underground channel". Mcmanus was pleased to click on this link. However, a few clicks, the link is not responding. Why, then? It turns out that people outside the United States are not able to enjoy the service.
This is a promising service, but because of the record company's intervention, global network music is currently subject to legitimate copyright restrictions. If we are not able to accept such services in the United States and abroad, this is in itself a violation of the Internet development intentions. So Mcmanus said he was unwilling to give a Rhapsody rating (he said he did not want to trouble Choshi again).
Conclusions
Mcmanus also tested Finetune and Last365, but they could not provide better things in Velvet Underground personalization. Mcmanus that they are not competitive. In comparison, the main reason for Last.fm to win is to be able to have meaningful access, and it does slightly with Pandora. There was a time when Mcmanus always liked to use Pandora, only to discover later that the Last.fm service was more varied and had few repetitive songs. So Last.fm has become a well-deserved leader in Web 2.0-class music streaming services (for example, in terms of recommendation and personalization).
Mcmanus that because itunes may be more innovative, it just needs to look at the filter to see how the itunes data is personalized, and filter is a playlist service for Apple. Mcmanus wants Pandora and Rhapsody to talk to the damn record labels right away, and he says he does not understand this, because cyber innovation should not be deterred by legal issues.
