Find and discover new music using Music-Map

Posted on March 9, 2008 at 6:55 am

Music is such a wonderful and vast field. Problem is, there is so much of it that finding songs you will like can be pretty darned hard. But that’s where Music Map steps in. Here’s a quick tutorial on how you can find music to suit your taste using Music Map.

Music-map.com

Every song fits into one genre or the other. If you like a lot of music from one genre, chances are other artists of the same genre will appeal to you as well. Music Map operates on this principle.

First off, head over to music-map.com. You will be greeted with a super-simple interface that looks like this :

It’s pretty obvious what you are to do. Type in the name of artist you like, and you’re good to go.

A quick tip on artist selection, after much experimentation, I found that you get the best results by choosing quantity over quality. In the sense that it is important to enter an artist, a majority of whose songs you like, as compared to an artist, a few songs of whose you absolutely adore.

For example, even though my favourite song is Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles, I like very few other songs by The Beatles, as a result, entering Linkin Park [I like almost every song they've ever made] gave me the best results.

Once you’ve chosen your artist, type it into the text field and hit continue. This will take you to a page where you will see names of artists flying around haphazardly, with the name you entered bang in the middle. Wait for the various names to stop moving around, and you will be looking at something like this:

This might look confusing, but its not, really. The closer an artist is to the artist you entered, the greater the probability that you will like that artist. In this case, I entered Linkin Park, and Limp Bizkit is practically overlapping it, therefore there’s a good chance I will like Limp Bizkit. It’s almost like a map, hence the name of the site.

One really nifty feature is that clicking on any of the artists in the results page will conduct a new search with the name you clicked on and generate a new map. This is really cool as you can navigate to the style of music you like.

Something I didn’t like is the fact that there is no way to preview songs of a matching artist on the site itself. But a quick Google search should get you song samples in no time.

In conclusion, Music map is a great site, one definitely worth checking out. I’m sure that you will find a few new artists you will like!

This is a guest post written by Om J. Bathija, a tech enthusiast and blogger.

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2 Responses to “Find and discover new music using Music-Map”

san said on : March 9th, 2008 at 8:31 am

i found out about music-map back in 2001. perhaps u can come up with newer stuff? just wondering. the previous posts have been truly useful, tho

Om said on : March 9th, 2008 at 9:55 am

Thank you for the feedback, but this article is written for those people who have not as of yet discovered this useful site, as are all articles pertaining to useful sites anywhere on the internet.

Naturally, it is not going to be nearly as useful to someone who already know about it.