Music 2.0

Music 2.0 is a broad term to characterize Web 2.0 music sites.

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Typology

This Music 2.0 Directory uses the following categorization scheme:

Music Services - places like iTunes and Rhapsody where you can purchase or subscribe to music

Music Discovery - places that help you find music - these fall generally into 3 subcategories:

1. Social Music Sites - wisdom of the crowds sites like last.fm, iLike. Goombah and Qloud
2. Content-based Music Recommenders - recommendations based on the music content - Pandora, SoundFlavor, MusicIP
3. Expert based Music Recommenders - Music recommendations from people - music blogs, irateradio.com

Music Experience Augmentation - sites to make your music listening experience more enjoyable - music dashboards like sleevenotez or Snapp Radio

Playlist Sharing - this includes playlisting sites like MusicMobs, fiql and Webjay

Music Metadata - add to the data surrounding the music - MusicBrainz, All Music Guide, Gracenote (http://music2dot0.wetpaint.com/)

More Information

Music Matrix collates tags on Music 2.0 developments, at http://soundblog.spaces.live.com/Lists/cns%21D380EA83E108537F%21310/

Key tag at http://del.icio.us/jherskowitz/music2.0