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SeeqPod.com is a "playable search" site for music and video that Verbal turned me onto. It's like a search site for MP3s and video files - which can be hosted anywhere, it seems, such as private websites and even public storage sites - and you can play the streams right on SeeqPod.
It relies on folks to submit URLs of their content for indexing.
If you are a website owner and haven't bothered to set up a streaming server, or don't know how, or haven't gotten your hosting provider to finagle it for you, this provides an answer.
And for your music-hungry, RIAA-loathing, web-addicted selves, we all share the win by being able to search, (hopefully) find, play the stream, and stroke our ears to instant gratification. You can save your playlists, too.
This isn't Napster or Morpheus circa 2001, but it's something close. The catalogue is decent, but not wide (not so good for J-pop, for example), though you will find some rare surprises. And it's adding content all the time.
And the real boner to this is that SeeqPod lists the URL of the source file, so if you're industrious enough (that is, you bother to mouse over and type what you see), you can own it, too.
Here's one review of SeeqPod from Read/Write Web and how it "neatly sidestep copyright and legal concerns."
Also cool is that SeeqPod provides ways to embed its player into your own sites and blogs (a la YouTube).
Here are some winning free-kicks in the power pop vein:
- Princess Six by Ash
- Rescue Plan by Charlotte Hatherley
- I Want You to Know (acoustic) by Charlotte Hatherley
- More Than You Know by Peter Adams
- The Dog by Eggstone
- Hide Your Heart Away by Lewis Taylor
Wait for the file to load, then hit the Play button.
