iLike: indie-music recommendations for iTunes

Posted on | October 26, 2006 | No Comments

though Pandora and Last.fm have been dominating the market of web-based music recommendation- & streaming-services during the past two years, we’ve seen some interesting new products emerging these days. while recently reviewed SpotDJ enters new ground, turning listeners into content-producers by recording their comments on tracks, iLike is unique in terms of the particular music its based on. produced by the makers of indy-music site Garageband.com, iLike is a nicely integrated iTunes plugin-recommending independent, free music from Garageband, based on a users library and the communities listening-habits.

I strongly disagree with Marshall Kirkpatrick from TechCrunch, who’s basically claiming that most indie-music is not able to deliver quality – there’s quite a few good tracks to be discovered. considering the slick user-interface and presuming that the service is aimed at the hardcore music-lover, willing to spend a good amount of time to discover fresh stuff offside mainstream, I really think iLike is worth a try. a future version of the plugin could integrate even more features from the website, like f.e. direct feedback on the quality of recommendations.

similar services include MyStrands and Qloud, which I haven’t had a chance to try out yet. if you want to share your experiences with these products, feel free to post a comment!

 

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