PROJECTPLAYLIST

Looking for an information location tool similar to Google and Yahoo! but devoted to the world of music?

Project Playlist helps you find and enjoy music throughout the web in the same way that other search engines help you find webpages, images, and other media. But it also adds a social-networking/community twist! It's easy to create playlists, share your playlists with friends, and browse playlists of others.

According to their website, legal music is all over the web.

"Increasingly, artists, record companies, music bloggers, music websites and music critics are uploading music files to websites that they control for promotional or other legal purposes. It is Project Playlist's mission to organize this rapidly growing abundance of legal music on the web for the benefit of the worldwide music community – artists, songwriters, music distributors, and listeners alike."

Project Playlist is in the process of building an index of links to music files posted on webpages that meet reasonable criteria as having the legal right to host music files for streaming to end users. It is their aim to allow you to discover music legally. Once you find music tracks that you like, you can add them to your personal playlist and then share your playlist with others. You can post your playlist on your social networking webpages such as MySpace, Facebook and Friendster (or any other website) or you can email your playlist to friends!

Project Playlist is currently only in BETA stage and the search engine is still the process of being built. So the index is far from complete at this point. If you know a legally posted music file not yet in Project playlist's index, you can add the link to that file (and to your playlist). You are asked only to add links to songs that you reasonably believe are legally posted on a legitimate promotional site such as an artist website or a music blog.

"It is Project Playlist's goal to become the most responsible site on the Internet for discovering music, supporting artists and connecting with your friends who are equally passionate about music."

Too bad we couldn't reach them for any comments on this.

  projectplaylist.com/playlist