Being the music addict that I am, I’m always on the hunt for the next and “newest” music delivery services out there. Let’s face it, relying solely on your iPod shuffle can get old and disappointing fast. Plus, you can only listen to your same “go to” songs for your same default mood so many times. Enter Musicovery, and Ghostly.
Lately I’ve been hyped on playing my music, and discovering new artists based entirely on my mood. Ghostly’s iPhone App is defiantly to blame for starting this quest. 
The app allows you to select the tempo of the music you would like to listen to, the genre it will stem from, and your overall mood – based on color. The music that is provided back to you represents the current artists representing the Ghostly label roster. Yes it’s essentially a marketing tool made by Ghostly to push their artists, but their artists are amazingly talented (you should be listening to them anyway – especially Mobius Band ) AND it begs the question – why aren’t we all listening to ALL of our music this way?
Immediately I wanted to be able shuffle all of my own music by mood. I envisioned the hours and long nights I would spend coding the program to enable me to do such a beautiful thing. Oh, technology – you sexy bitch, you never fail me. This has already been done via musicovery. The iTunes plugin works simply and flawlessly, making an instant playlist based on tempo and your mood. (I’m not sure how you group your songs by mood, then by genre yet – or if that is even an option, but for now this still works just fine for me. More than fine, I don’t have to code it!) Currently the iTunes plugin only works for the Mac OSX, because win-blows.
The interactive web radio site is obviously available to all though, and easily allows genre categorization. The site is created by the merger of Pandora with Musicplasma (Musicplasma catalogs your favorite movies + your favorite music to show similarities between the two and offer suggestions as to what might also be of interest to you. It’s also cool to check out!) Both of these sites have come together to create Musicovery which brings you a fully customizable music player which should keep you satisfied, dancing, and entertained for at least a few days. (Day two myself..)
So, What are you waiting for? Go Try it out. Make sure you customize all of the available options to have the best musical experience possible. Start with setting the slider for the era you would like your music to come from, then select your mood, set your tempo, and if you would like – set your selective genres. Want less popular music? Hit the discovery button. Musicovery will get to know your tastes, similar to Pandora, if you let it by selecting that you heart or broken heart on each track you feel something strong for in either the love or hate direction. My current obsessions settings are: All era, dark and calm, electro & r&b, + discovery, -dance, -tempo. Take electro out, add similar artists and you have my other obsession. So far I have found two bands that i’m unsure how I ever lived without – and they are down tempo, which is shocking for me. More alarming is how I ever lived without this site since it was created in 2006.. As they say, better late than never..
