SeeqPod – Playable Search

Overview
For the first Music 2.0 site to discuss, I have chosen this blog’s namesake (offtopic – very good book.) SeeqPod is a site, which has been around for quite some time and has slowly evolved into a solid, easy to use tool. It is flash based as most of the 2.0 tools are these days.

As the slogan indicates, the pupose of this site is to search for a specific song or artist. Searching will bring back results realted to the search in a similar manner that google does. It searches for music as well as a host of other items as seen in the chart.

The site really shines not because it allows you to search for music, which is old hat by now, but by making it so easy to add the results to your playlist and immediately stream the files that are returned in the search.

Pros

• Simple UI which easily allows you to search for music
• Instant playback of songs returned from the search
• Easily save songs as a playlist to open later (requires you to create an account)
• Has video results if you are interested in such things

Cons

• Only songs posted on blogs tend to be available, which means you will most likely not find every song by an artist
• Results are returned even if the song is no longer available. This happens quite often given the nature of the source material. Thy player will just keep trying to load the track and eventually tell you it is unavailable.
• The same songs display multiple times in the search results, so some digging is required to find a wide array of songs

How to Use

• Open the SeeqPod main page
• Enter band name/song you are looking for in the search box
• On the search results page, hover over the song you want to hear and click the “)))” button of the green play button.
• The song will be added to your playlist and begin playing immediately
• Search for more songs and build your playlist

NOTE: The blue circle indicates music, the red circle indicates a video, the yellow circle indicates information. The types of results can be filtered using the checkboxes above the search results.

When to Use
If you are in search of a random selection from a particular band you just heard of, this tool is great. It seems to work best for new bands that are being mentioned often in the blogosphere.

Other sites are better if you are looking for something new. This tool is best used if you know the song or artist you are “seeqing.”

Music 2.0

As the internet evolves into a social, collaborative medium; so too do the tools and services which help us discover music that suite our tastes as well as expose us to music currently beyond our horizons.

The goal of this blog is to expose anyone who might be interested to the tools and websites that I use to feed my music addiction on the internet. I will be adding the existing sites I use currently and that I have found useful in the past ranging from the very popular to those which not many have heard of.

The point will not be to focus on a specific genre, but to promote the sites that are of use no matter the music choice. If you know of any sites or tools which you think fit into this category, please let me know.

Cheers!
-Kyle