Music is pretty big business on the web, a lot of people like to listen to music while they work or study. The web has opened up our music tastes and collections, despite the fact that we still don’t have iTunes access in SA and some are forced to rely on dodgy Ukraine or Czech alternatives.

There are many ways to discover new music online but one of my preferred services is last.fm – the desktop app is easy to use. By ’scrobbling’ my tracks from my iPod to my online profile, last.fm then learns my music preferences and knows to *never* play Hootie and the Blowfish but recommends new artists and bands that I’d probably be interested in.

last.fm is a social network so it means I can also check out what my friends are listening to and recommend and share tracks with them…..everything is better when it’s shared

I was interested to discover today that YouTube houses the biggest collection of music on the web (like facebook holds the biggest collection of photos.) With this in mind Muziic has launched – The YouTube media player promises millions of songs in your desktop media player, all legal, all there for you to listen to. They also offer an advanced music encoder so that you can upload your own original mp3’s and it won’t sound like your band is recording in your mom’s bathroom.

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