oh, go for it then

http://www.projectplaylist.com/

so it's basicallty got a robot engine and scans the internetz for mp3's, looks for tags, id's them, put them onto a database and you bung on an user interface that you can use to create playlists and slap 'em on to your myspace and stuff. all based on dodgy looking ads.

Project Playlist’s Gets $3M To Keep Experimenting

Project Playlist calls itself a “social music experiment.” In other words, it’s just one of the many options available when it comes to adding an embeddable music player to MySpace or Facebook profiles. Its simple player lets users aggregate free MP3 files available on the Net and put them together in a widget that can be posted just about anywhere. This week the company even announced a version of Project Playlist for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone.

The Beverly Hills, Calif.-based startup has raised $3 million in funding, according to PE Hub. We tried to contact the company to find out more about their Series A round, but to no avail.

Project Playlist makes some money through advertising on its site, and spends on “performance royalties” paid to performance rights organizations. These orgs, in turn, dole out undisclosed sums to songwriters and music publishers. The more their songs appear on playlists, the more they get paid.

Even though the company pays musicians and publishers, as with any music player, copyright is a serious concern. Project Playlist doesn’t host music content (it plays files hosted on third-party web sites), and claims it maintains no editorial oversight over what gets posted by its users.

the ads are well dodgy, but so are myspace ads. try it out yourself.
it's definitely a confused world for music right now. if you didn't notice.

i think i'll dig out my cassette deck (that i've only been using to put vocals and guitars through) and that big cardboard box full of cassette tapes, some even from the 70's. i used to tape radio 1 shows. listen to classic dave lee travis or something and cry.

Geek 4 Life.