Music fans listen up, Mercora is building the world’s largest music radio network, and yes, it’s completely legal. The site leverages music that you and I and everyone else already have on their computers (it searches your hard drive for legally acquired tunes).
So you can listen to your home music library at work, or listen to your friend’s greatest hits collection wherever you are. Mercora lets you search and listen to thousands of artists from webcasters all over the world. You can even manage webcasts and listen to them when it’s convenient for you. Mercora will also customize a musical playlist for you. Or you can create your own webcast and channel with your choice of tunes. Be your own DJ once and for all.
Mercora.com In Their Own Words
“Mercora’s mission is to catalog and organize the world’s music and make it universally searchable and legally listenable. Quite simply: Mercora has built the world’s largest and legal music radio network composed almost entirely of music resident on people’s computers. Our strategy is to:
• Create the world’s largest music catalog by leveraging peer-to-peer technologies and user contributed content.
• Unleash the music by building technologies that make this content available to anyone on the network in the form of CD-quality broadcasts.
• Delight the listener by providing great search, discovery, personalization and community services.
• Uphold the letter and spirit of the copyright law by building compliance and reporting into our products and services and paying performance royalties to organizations that represent songwriters and music record labels.”
Why Mercora.com It Might Be A Killer
This social network/webcasting platform/radio network is a rather ingenious combination of musical avenues. Fans get a huge selection of music to listen to, artists can stream their music and have others discover it, and DJ’s get their own channels. Plus the site has integrated messaging and chat for socializing. The fact that it’s legal and free is quite wholesome.
Some Questions About Mercora.com
Having Mercora scan your system for music may not be agreeable to some music fans. How are legally obtained songs determined?
