Just a quick post to mention Jamendo - a site I discovered a couple of days ago offering lots of free music from various independent artists.
So far I’ve downloaded several albums and a handful of EPs, and I’m impressed - some of the music is very nice, very professional, and not only free but also legally so! 
Oh, and the download speed is ridiculously good - I’ve been pulling down albums at a solid 2.3MB/s (and yes, I do mean megabyte) - can’t argue with that!
It’s another good way to find new music (another way I particularly like is using last.fm’s recommendations stream, which will stream you a selection of songs that you’re likely to enjoy, based on what it already knows about your musical tastes.
I’ve been meaning to whack up a post about this - I launched a new song lyrics search website the other day called LyricsBadger.
It uses my Lyrics::Fetcher Perl module to fetch song lyrics from a variety of sites, and remembers what it’s been asked for before so that it can present lists of artists/songs which it’s already been asked for.
I built it as a testbed for Lyrics::Fetcher and to get some experience with Template Toolkit for Perl (which absolutely rocks!). The entire site is powered by one Perl script and a handful of templates, and uses a ScriptAlias directive to pass all requests to the one script so that it can provide nice clean URLs like /lyrics/Artist/Title.
Why not go and give LyricsBadger a try?
CBS has purchased last.fm for $280 million. Congratulations to the last.fm team, I’m sure they’ve put in a lot of work to last.fm, so they sure deserve a nice payout.
It leaves me concerned that last.fm will go downhill and turn into an uninteresting commercialised “cash cow”, but the last.fm blog post states: Continue reading ‘last.fm bought by CBS’
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