Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Mix tapes for the 21st century, part 2

Grooveshark wins for now; here's the "Confessions of a Sock Monkey" playlist and here is the accompanying story.  I might have liked to have the Sinead O'Connor version of "Why don't you do right?", the Peggy Lee version of "You'd be so nice to come home to" and especially the Rosey Grier version of "It's all right to cry", but close enough.  


So far I'm fairly impressed with Grooveshark's selection, but their interface feels a bit clownish with the noisy ads.  


I also hate their search engine; it throws up a lot of chaff when searching for a track, and does things like rank "Where the Hood At" and "Ride Wit Me" as more relevant to a search for "You'd be so nice to come home to" than several versions of the actual search term.  This means I almost always need to click the "See all" button.  All in all, not nearly as satisfying a user experience as putting together the mflow "Confessions of a Sock Money" playlist, even if mflow came up a few tracks short.  Mflow's search field to "Quickly add tracks to this playlist" especially kicks the ass of anything Grooveshark had to offer.  




So, I want mflow's interface and Grooveshark's database.

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