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Musebin Wants To Be The Twitter For Music Reviews

Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by Keshav in Internet Tools

Musebin is a new music review service that lets you make one line reviews of music albums. With micro-blogging and short status services on the rise, such related services are following the trend. Pushing the addictive 140 character vogue forward, Musebin lets you create reviews of 140 characters or less of music albums and let other users vote or comment on them. Moreover, the vote buttons have their own style, you either yea a review or push it down with a nay.

Features

Adding a review is quite easy for anyone. You add an artist and an album, and Musebin suggests you probable matches for your entry. You can either select from one of those or carry on with your own submission. If you select a suggestion, the album art for that album will be placed on your review, but you can also upload an album art of your own. If you don’t want to write your own review, you can copy and paste a one liner from somewhere else and mention the publisher and source url, though all this remains optional.

For the search part, you can look for artists and albums in order to read album reviews on them. Each artist has its own page, so you can see what all albums are reviewed. On the collaborative part, the site scores well by providing voting capabilities. Before buying an album, it is always wise to check reviews, and Musebin can probably be a definitive stop for music lovers to look for reviews and opinions, amongst other sites and communities.

On the side of each review, you can find links to its Amazon and iTunes page, making it easy for you to purchase the album quickly. Plus, there are also links for Last.fm, Rhapsody, Grooveshark and several other sites.

Musebin still has a long way to go, and I’m sure we’ll see many more services getting down to 140 characters or less.

(By) Keshav Khera is a 14 year old geek from India. He is an avid freelance writer and writes about technology and web on his blog Fabworker. When he’s not doing the usual stuff, he’s either exploring music or is hooked to twitter (@keshav).

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