Discover New Music with StumbleAudio

Posted on 16. Sep, 2008 by Kyle Judkins in Internet Tools

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stumbleaudio logoStumbleAudio follows in the footsteps of StumbleUpon except instead of finding new websites you find new music.  If you are familiar with StumbleUpon, the same basic rules apply.  You “Stumble” through random tracks on the Internet and give a simple “Thumbs Up” or “Thumbs Down” to the track you are listening to.

StumbleAudio makes it easy to get started, as you don’t even have to sign up to use the service.  However, you will need to register if you want to save your favorites, but it’s not hard.  Let’s take a quick look at all StumbleAudio has to offer.

Stumbling

stumbleaudio interface

As you can see from the above screenshot, StumbleAudio is pretty self-explanatory and very easy to use.  Just pick a genre on the left and start listening.  For each song, you should give it a “Thumbs Up” or “Thumbs Down” rating.  You also have the option to just hit the Stumble button if you just want to skip to the next track.  StumbleAudio makes it easy to share a great song with your friends by including a Share this song button.

StumbleAudio also integrates a menu on the right that allows you to buy the track from several different places.  This is great, because it gives you the opportunity to support the artist and compare prices at the same time.

StumbleSpy

stumblespy ss

StumbleSpy is a cool little feature that allows you to look at all of your Stumbles, Thumbs Up rated or Thumbs Down rated in the form of a slowly moving line of album covers.  The Thumbs Ups are denoted by the green border and the Thumbs Downs by the red border.  The main page allows you to see the same track listings but not in such a visual way.

Charts

stumbleaudio charts

Charts is a great feature, because you can see what everyone else listened to, liked or disliked.  This is definitely a great place to quickly find some amazing little known artists or songs and/or expand your music horizons.

Conclusion

I really like StumbleAudio for its simplicity and ease of use.  It probably won’t take me away from Last.fm, because it has mostly smaller artists.  However, I will definitely be back when I want to find that obscure gem of a band.

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4 Responses to “Discover New Music with StumbleAudio”

  1. Filippo Lo Meo

    23. Jul, 2009

    What I did not understand is how is an artist supposed to submit his own music to SA

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  2. julien

    21. Aug, 2009

    I can’t find either how artists are supposed to sumbit their music to StumbleAudio.
    Anyone knows ??

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  3. Look, listen and learn: Sites to inspire new writing ideas and creative cross-pollination « Write Livelihood

    08. Nov, 2009

    [...] If you want to find new music to listen to, you can use a service like Pandora or Last.fm, but you could also check out StumbleAudio to expand your audio horizons. Kyle Judkins of Lost in Technology blog wrote a nice piece last year about using the service. [...]

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  4. CuriousGeorge

    26. Jan, 2010

    What if you are in Croatia? (or some other part of the world)… is Stumble Audio blocked? because it appears so.

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