Projectplaylist.com - Social Music Experiment

Looking for the coolest music on the Web? ProjectPlaylist helps you find and enjoy music legally throughout the web in the same way that other search engines help you find WebPages, images, and other media. ProjectPlaylist organizes the rapidly growing abundance of legal music on the web for the benefit of the music community – artists, songwriters, music distributors, and listeners alike. But ProjectPlaylist has also added a social or community twist. Once you find music tracks that you like through the music search engine (or on another user’s playlist), you can add them to your personal playlist and then share your playlist with others. You can post your playlist on your social networking webpage or any other website, or you can email your playlist to friends. Playlists created in this site are nothing more than collections of hyperlinks pointing to music files located on websites throughout the Internet. It’s like bookmarking “favorites”, just as you bookmark sites with any web browser. Their technology is compatible with other music players, so you can listen to your playlist with Windows Media Player, Real Media Player or Winamp as well.

“Projectplaylist.com allows you to discover free music legally because we respect the rights of copyright holders and we insist that you do as well. We pay royalties to songwriters and music publishers, and we respect the performing artist’s choice. Some performing artists make their music freely available on the web, others allow you to listen to only a few freely available songs through a promotional site, and a few would prefer that none of their music be heard on the web at all. If an artist tells us that our search engine is linking to an illegally posted song, we will immediately take down the link to that music file. Although we cannot control the music files posted on WebPages by others, we can and do prohibit uploading or downloading of songs to or from our site. In other words we do not host music files, nor do we make them available. We only enable users to find these files and listen to them. We also require as a condition of the Terms of Use of our site that you not add to our index any links to WebPages that you know to host illegally posted music files.”

Music is rapidly increasing on the web. More and more, artists, record companies, music bloggers, music websites and music critics are uploading music files to websites. ProjectPlaylist is an information location tool similar to Google and Yahoo! but devoted entirely to the world of music. But with ProjectPlaylist you can create playlists, share your playlists with friends, and browse playlists of others. This project is currently only in BETA stage but has a great potential for organizing music on the web.

Will ProjectPlaylist emerge as real authority in music search? How they will be able to compete with major search engines offering audio search?