
What to do with the thousands upon thousands of songs that move through your web browser & mp3 player? A new website called Twones seeks to consolidate not just the music library on your computer, but your music activity online as well. The site ties together your every musical fancy from, as of current, twenty one different sites, including The Hype Machine, Last.fm, YouTube, and MySpace.
As described on their about page, the growing number of music sites out there is great for listeners as far as discovering new music, but “the diversity and sheer volume is simply too overwhelming to keep track (of).” My sentiments exactly--not just about aggregate music sites, but music in general nowadays. With a countless number of songs and almost as many niche genres and sub-genres to pine through, who has the time? Seriously, there’s more than enough sub-sub genres, one band genres even, to waste the waking hours of the next six weeks going through. Thanks, but I’ll have to draw the line at post-proto-dance-punk-death-wave.
Twones, still in its pre-beta stage, is invite-only at the moment, but if all goes well, it can become both the key to finding that one song you heard on a foreign radio station and the end all answer for those of us who sit up half the night compiling playlists for someone who’ll ultimately never hear it cause they’ve long since moved on to your best friend…the latter’s being the worst case scenario (Have you learned nothing from the last person to scoff at your pain-staking discovery of a mid 60s ballad on Italian Import produced in an insane asylum?) G’wan- get your mopey self together, and get ready to enjoy what iTunes 'Genius' and Pandora aspired to be.





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