I was reading /. when a glorious light shone upon the world of music. I pass the light to you, music fans. Rejoice! Deezer lives!

Their debut database is only weighing in at 100k songs but it’s a great start. Listeners can choose any song from their database and listen to it as many times as they feel like. The full song. Not some shitty, super compressed, 30 second sample. The whole damn thing. You can create oodles of playlists as well. They also appear to be supporting the indie crowd, allowing user uploads and such.

I’m not an audiophile so I didn’t go looking for the stated bit rate, but it sounds like 128. I only noticed the compression when I cranked their player’s audio levels all the way up. It sounds pretty good if you keep their levels below 80%.

I think it’s fair to say this site is a Pandora killer. I think Pandora is an interesting project, but seriously, the people of the world just want to browse music hassle free. We don’t want crappy samples, commercials or an “intelligent” site that ends up playing nothing but Particle Man after two hours.

thx, France!

• oink.cd is all im saying

  Spankins - 8.26.2007 @ 10:28 pm
  
  

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