Mashing Up Rhapsody

I love Rhapsody. On my laptop. On my Sonos. I love the idea of paying $9.99 per month to be able to listen to almost anything I want whenever I want.

I've been vocal enough about my love for Rhapsody that I was asked by them to be a judge in their web services contest which I blogged about back in July.

This weekend I reviewed all the finalists and submitted my votes. Rhapsody is going to annouce the winners this coming week.

There are number of really cool mashups. The ones I liked best were the Rhapsody scrobbler for last.fm (which I can't use because it's Windows only), this great Pitchfork/Rhapsody mashup (which I wish was done as a firefox extension so you could use it while reading Pitchfork), and my favorite, this cool Google Gadget which lets you type in any lyric, song, or artist and get a results page that connects right to Rhapsody and other services for your listening/viewing pleasure.

Comments

[flyintiger]

Fred - You should check out a new You Tube mashup that enables you to play on your blog video clips of your favorite artists.
you can see the widget on different blogs such as www.elrude.com, www.leafar.com or my blog www.flyintiger.com

[Andrew]

You have hit on a excellent Greasemonkey script idea here: Pitchfork/HypeMachine Mashup that allows you to play songs by the artist from a Pitchfork Review page. Does Greasemonkey work for Firefox on a mac? I would assume so.

[Don Roll]

Fred - Have you checked out the Radio Paradise mashup at www.snappradio.com?

[Tony Alva]

I just tried two lyrics, one new, one old.

"Lonely, and the only way to beat it is to bat it down" from M. Doughty's Haughty Melodic album and "...The gates of life are closed for you and there's just no return" from Black Sabbath's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

Results: no reported score.