Music Streaming

SpotifyFounded in 2006 – Spotify allows you to play music online without buying or downloading the music file. Create a library of your chosen music by searching the database built up by other users and save them to your playlist.

Users can listen to music without paying for it (but with the option to) meaning a better selection and access to the music you want.

You can upload your own music for free and it can be accessed publicly by millions of users so it can easily promote your work.

Vevo

Founded in 2009, Vevo is a music video website with connections to Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Abu Dhabi Media and EMI licensing.

On Vevo, users can watch more than 45,000 videos. Once these videos have been previewed, it offers the opportunity to buy the song through Amazon MP3 or iTunes.

Vevo links with your iTunes and Facebook likes and automatically creates a playlist of them on YouTube.

Since 2010, Vevo can be used as a free Apple iPhone app.

Shazam

Shazam is a commercial mobile phone based music identification service based in London, England. The company was founded in 1999. Shazam will find a song’s details that has skipped your memory.

All you have to do is load the app, Shazam will listen to what’s playing from any other device, match up the sound and find a result with artist and song name. It will even automatically load the song on YouTube for your convenience.

It identifies songs based on an audio finger print based on a time frequency graph called a spectrogram.

Soundcloud

Founded in Sweden and finally established in Germany in 2007. Invented by a sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss.

Soundcloud is an online audio distribution platform that allows artists to promote and distribute artists recordings.

Key features of Soundcloud: Lets artists upload their music, combined with Twitter and Myspace to reach a larger audience and lets users download tracks.