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Mix Turtle Creates Online Music Playlists
Posted by Lifehacker US Edition at 5:00 AM on July 24, 2008
Web-based music search tool Mix Turtle creates playlists of songs you find online. Working from an index of millions of songs, Mix Turtle supplies suggestions to your search terms as you enter them. Covering a broad spectrum of time and tastes, Mix Turtle returned impressive results for diverse searches such as Miley Cyrus, Robert Miles, and Miles Davis. Once you find songs you would like to listen to, you simply click on them to start playing or click on the plus symbol next to the song to add it to your playlist. Create an accoung and log in to save your playlists, but a login is not required to use the service. The playback applet has no control for volume or jumping about within the track that is playing, but otherwise the playback is clean and the quality of the tracks high. While not a replacement for more robust service like Pandora, song selection was easy and playback enjoyable. Mix Turtle is free to use.
Tags: digital music | mix turtle | mp3s | music | organise | playlists
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
Lochlan
Posted July 24, 2008 9:48 AM
Miley Cyrus... wtf?
bbobjoe
Posted 5:26 AM 24/7/08
Dude, Jason come on, Miley? LOL
Reminds me of Seeqpod. A great way to find that song that you want your friend to hear.
bbobjoe
Jason Fitzpatrick
Posted 6:12 AM 24/7/08
@bbobjoe: Hey cut me a break! I needed someone with "mile" in their name on the current pop charts to balance out Robert Miles and Miles Davis in my epic "Miles" playlist. Let it be known that we here at Lifehacker will leave no stone unturned or eardrum unpierced in the pursuit of a review well done! ;-)
Jason Fitzpatrick
Charging_Mooses
Posted 6:11 AM 24/7/08
@B1663R: they must be Music Nazi's!
okay thats too harsh...
so what im getting from this is that this site is somewhat like Project Playlist?
Charging_Mooses
B1663R
Posted 5:58 AM 24/7/08
Nice new site... something to use until IT blocks it. for the record, IT has blocked seeqpod, last fm, vibe, skreemr,and beemp3.
yes, my company doesn't like music
B1663R
enileda
Posted 6:29 AM 24/7/08
I just tried it out, and was disappointed. It found music from sites that required a login (I don't have a login, I don't even know where it is playing the music from). I didn't have a login, naturally, so I tried to just skip it and it froze. This happened several times with different songs. I finally just gave up. It was more frustrating than worthwhile.
enileda
osugodfan
Posted 7:12 AM 24/7/08
Seems nice, but I still like www.songza.com better.
osugodfan
bbobjoe
Posted 7:28 AM 24/7/08
@Jason Fitzpatrick: OK now I feel bad for you, at least I now know the people at Lifehacker will sacrifice there eardrums for me.
bbobjoe
orky56
Posted 8:16 AM 24/7/08
@osugodfan: +1 for songza!
orky56
HMGS
Posted 8:58 AM 24/7/08
Seems to work quite well. Like the interface quite a bit.
HMGS
thaddeusj113
Posted 6:33 AM 24/7/08
There's another site like this, songza.com that's been around for a little while. You use search terms, get results, and then can stream the music and add it to a playlist. Just another alternative if you're into this sort of thing
thaddeusj113
PiNPOiNT
Posted 1:19 AM 25/7/08
seeqpod.com roxors
PiNPOiNT