Paul_J
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Not sure if repost / should be in geek day I guess...
It's very similar to a piece of software I was developing - except they've got proper backing from the music companies, so is legal!
Basically, forget watching music on youtube, forget downloading music with lime wire / torrents.
Just use spotify to listen to any music (streamed) for free, in a interface like itunes. Quickly search and add the songs to your music library / playlist (no need to download the songs, so no wait).
The best part of it all - is that it's easy to share music. For example I can give you a whole playlsit or my whole music library instantly with no download at all. Essentially I'm just giving you a list of tracks, rather than the files.
For the lovers of illegal shit - I'm sure they'll be a hacked version too to allow you to download the tracks to put on CD / Ipod too.
[Edited on 10-03-2009 by Paul_J]
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tom_simes
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I got recommended this on the weekend, and find it really useful, very good interface and high quality streaming too!
They don't have the Kevin & Perry Go Large soundtrack though 
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Dom
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used this for a week or two and it has it's advantages, although not all music is available to UK users and the libary is pretty small (currently).
Personally i would stick to using sites like GrooveShark or applications like Napster for things like this.
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Paul_J
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Dom i just find it really annoying to have to 'download' songs... I just constantly think 'hmm I really want to listen to x , y , z'
I usually go to youtube and type the songs in and listen to them, but get sick of having to search each song each time.
The software I was gonna develop was called 'youlnk'...
Essentially, people would collect (links to) songs in their library (like you do in Spotify). The music would then stream through your library / playlists you create.
The advantage being you had all the music on youtube available (a lot), no downloads required, easy sharing of music between friends (by sharing lists of essentially links)... it'd all be handled in a similar way to spotify, so you could rip whole music libraries off mates instantly. It'd be 'legal' as you'd be watching it off youtube.
When a dead link was found it'd re search the same song again and replace the dead link.
However with the news about youtube that has canned that idea, but spotify pretty much does it all the same anyway... so  glad I got no further than making a prototype 
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Dom
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Grooveshark is an online libary that allows you to stream music/tracks/albums (pretty damn good) and Napster has the ability to stream music before you buy (like spotify) - lots of people use it just to stream tracks/albums.
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Neo
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Been using this for a few months now, fantastic piece of software, basically like having a media player library of tens of thousands of songs 
Have acid studio installed on my machine so can "stream" the music to lovely file names on my machine
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Paul_J
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Neo stream them to file names on the computer
Brilliant.
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