The site is called “radio.blog.club,” and is much easier and more convenient to use.

You simply type in a desired artist’s name and let the search engine do all the work.

In addition to the standard streaming feature, you can also embed the songs on your blog, MySpace page, or whatever other site you have access to.

It also has a “Hot Picks” feature that periodically compiles a “day” and “night” mix for you to listen to and hear artists you may otherwise never hear of.

Here’s what it looks like.

To show an example of the selection of music it offers I did a search query for the artist “Beck,” which I’m sure you all have heard of.

If you take a look at the results, the available tracks are pretty extensive, as it even has the rare track “Debra,” which I recommend for all those that have never heard it before.

The search returned well over 8 pages of tracks in fact, making for a diverse and fairly complete listing.

To add tracks to a playlist, you must first register of course. After registering simply select the “heart” icon of the track you wish to add and click “My Playlist.”

Returning to the main page and clicking on the “Jukebox” tab, you can see and play the playlist you created.

Yet, the site gets even better.

For those of you with blogs, or MySpace accounts, you can even embed each of the tracks into your site pages. It also allows you to customize the colors of the embedded music player.

If you take a look below I’ve customized the player’s colors and also highlighted the embedding code for you.

All in all it’s a pretty cool music streaming site and a little less cumbersome than FineTune.

The ability to embed the tracks on private sites and pages makes it all the much nicer.

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There are many audio files available for playback on the venerable MySpace site yet, very few are available as downloads. There’s a number of ways to bypass this problem and I will cover two of best the methods here for you to use, the first being the easiest.

A. FreeMusicZilla
B. Audacity

FreeMusicZilla

1. Download and install FreeMusicZilla.

2. Open FreeMusicZilla, visit the desired MySpace page, and play the song you want to download. Whatever music track you select will then automatically be grabbed by FreeMusicZilla.

3. Select the grabbed music track and press the DOWNLOAD button. Your download should then begin. Make sure you begin downloading the track before the “Leech Timeout” counter runs out otherwise you’ll have to refresh the page.

EXAMPLE:

In the picture below I used the MySpace page of my buddy DJ Destructo Bunny. He’s a local up and coming hip-hop artist and I urge you to show some support if you like what you hear by either buying a track or two or by trying to check out one of his upcoming shows.

NOTE: FreeMusicZilla places your downloads in the location “C:downloads” by default.

Audacity

1. Download and install Audacity.

2. Now we need to install a LAME MP3 encoding driver so you can save tracks in the .mp3 format.

First download the driver, which you can do here. It’s in ZIP file format, so for those of you who are unfamiliar with what ZIP files are, there’s a guide here at Zeropaid you can take a look at.

Now drag and drop the driver in the location shown below, “C:/WINDOWS/system.”

3. Select “Wave Out Mix” as the audio recording device.

EXAMPLE:

Now it’s time to find some audio tracks to rip.

A good friend of mine is the lead-singer for a band called The Wagon here in San Diego and has been kind enough to allow me to use his band’s music on MySpace for this tutorial.

The image below is of the band’s page. Notice how the top two songs are available for download and the bottom two are not. We’re going to rip the second song from the top titled “End of Summer,” a personal favorite of mine not to mention timely with Summer drawing to a close.

Now with Audacity and the MySpace page open, click the “record button” on Audacity as shown below and then quickly press the “play button” on the End of Summer track. The track should begin to play and thereby be displayed as eloquent peaks and valleys of music in the Audacity track window.

When the song is finished playing press the “stop button” on Audacity. This will of course stop the recording and allow us to go back and edit the song.

The reason we need to edit the song is because there will be periods of silence in both the beginning and end of our recording. This silence is the delay in reaction time it took for us to both start and stop the process.

Using the scrollbar on the bottom of the track window, scroll back to the beginning of the recording as pictured below.

Using the mouse place your cursor as close to the beginning of the song as possible, then click and drag it all the way to the left and release. We have just selected the silence in the front of the track, which we will now discard by pressing the “delete button” on your keyboard.

Now we need to do the same thing for the end of the recording. To do so simply scroll to the end of the track and then select and delete the silence as you did with the beginning of the track. It’s that easy.

From the “File” tab select “Export as MP3″ as shown below.

It will then prompt you to select a name to save it as, which in this case will be “End of Summer.”

After clicking on the “Save” tab, it will then ask you to “locate the LAME MP3 encoder” we just installed.

Hopefully you remember where we just put it but, just in case I’ll show you where to go.

Once this is done it’ll begin to encode the track and turn it into an MP3, the music file type necessary to play on your iPod or whatever media player of choice.

And with this ladies and gentleman the track is ready to go.

Admittedly, configuring the Audacity program to perform as necessary initially takes a little while, but once this is done future recordings or “ripping” of audio files will be a breeze.

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Bloggers, analysts, and intellectual property attorneys have noted that Universal might have motives beyond quashing piracy, especially because MySpace has been insisting that it is following proper copyright procedures.

"Universal’s beef isn’t about piracy," said IDC analyst John Gantz. "Part of this is because bands can potentially make a living without signing up with a record label. So any kind of sand in the gears to delay that is in Universal’s best interest."

The outcome of the case could set a major precedent for a battle between content producers and social-networking sites, and also spark new discussions about the level of liability such sites might have when users swap content.

FineTune is an interesting site that allows users to create playlists using tracks from artists they search for and select, or by simply listening to the playlists already created by others. In addition, it will “auto-fill” your playlist with tracks from artists that it thinks you will like if your playlist has less than the standard 45 track size. This feature makes for a good way to hear music from artists that may otherwise never listen to.

They have a wide variety of artists to choose from and its not limited to unsigned independent artists like a lot of the other music preview sites out there.

You can either simply select to play a single song or an entire album for any individual artist, then also using them to create a quick playlist by compiling songs from different albums or artists to hear as well.

Below you can see a quick search I did for the “Beastie Boys.”

Notice the results that were returned. It has 19 albums to choose from, almost every one that I’ve ever heard of including some of the more rare albums that they have released.

It’s like this for almost every artist that I searched for. They truly have a wide and definitive selection of artist discographies to choose from.

Here’s an overview of the process:

You have an option of buying each track or album using links to iTunes or Amazon.com.

I tried to see how easy it would be to rip the audio from each track but, unfortunately it proved to be more of a pain than what it’s worth. This site is strictly of the play and go sort, the type that’s good for compiling some songs to listen to while your at work or otherwise away from your home music library.

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The move was probably inevitable, especially following a string of lawsuits and tough statements from Universal Music Group. Earlier, UMG chairman Doug Morris pointed to major copyright violations at both YouTube and MySpace. “We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars,” Morris said during a Merrill Lynch conference in September. “How we deal with these companies will be revealed shortly.” That may have stirred deep-pocketed MySpace owner News Corp., which has been sensitive about disrupting the carefully-created MySpace ecosystem. Now, with the latest move, users may be confronted with an abrupt surprise. Profile pages are an identity statement, and a streaming audio or video track is a huge part of that expression.

But the practice of what the recording industry considers illegal music downloading is alive and thriving, thanks to lax copyright protections abroad and the experience of a generation that grew up swapping songs over superfast Internet connections. And lately it’s finding a new lifeline: a business model.”

This year, 300 million to 500 million files were pirated each day, according to Artistdirect, a New York company that tracks illegal downloads through its MediaDefender service, and in some cases, attempts to block them. “The user base has been chased around the Internet because the companies keep getting shut down…but this is a really stubborn, persistent phenomenon,” says Eric Garland, CEO of BigChampagne, an online media measurement firm

“Since you can’t predict it, you sort of have to just let it get out there,” Alan Citron, general manager of TMZ.com, said Tuesday during a panel discussion featuring Internet and creative executives at the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica.

“There’s a huge appetite for this stuff,” he added, referring to the celebrity-driven news that TMZ features. “People want to see people as they actually are in public. This stuff

Citron also said that any content has value on the Web as long as it is interesting.

Joe Michaels, director business development at MSN Entertainment, emphasized the interactive nature of content in the digital realm and the prevalence of multitasking behavior.

Brad Greenspan, who made $47 million from the 2005 deal, claims on his Free MySpace website that Rupert Murdoch’s media company paid much less then they knew MySpace was worth. News Corp. coughed up $580 million; Greenspan believes it could be valued at $20 billion within a few years.

‘Deliberate steps were taken to withhold and manipulate information; money was improperly gained and laws were broken,’ he wrote. ‘I expect as the authorities get their arms around what happened that this transaction will be unwound and MySpace will be independent.’

Greenspan has filed a lawsuit against Intermix, MySpace’s former owner, and venturer capitalist firm VantagePoint Venture Partners, alleging that News Corp acquired Intermix at an unfair price.

Except not everybody does: By at least one count, the upstart Web site trails old fogies like News Corp.’s (nyse: NWS – news – people ) MySpace and Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO – news – people ) in the number of video streams served per month.

Yet YouTube’s pull is so strong that it is changing the way established Web giants think about the way they serve up Internet video: News Corp. in particular is overhauling its Web sites to combat YouTube’s appeal.

Last month News Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin told a media conference that MySpace’s video offerings are “one of the things we’re going to invest in the next several months.” The following week, News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said he expects a revamped MySpace to wrest the video lead away from YouTube by the end of November.

Although this was a good idea by Wal-Mart, their attempts at avoiding future lawsuits by allowing parents to control page content was probably the biggest turn off, aside from the not-so-hip actors.

The Wal-Mart social network site is no longer up as they have pulled down the web page, although users can take a limited preview of it by visiting http://www.walmart.com/schoolyourway before being redirected towards Wal-Mart’s home page.