Twones rolls up 25 music services into one

September 28, 2009 | Paul Boutin | Comments | |

twones-logo-2The number of music sites worth signing up for keeps growing. If you’re as disorganized as I am, a morning’s listening can make a mess of your desktop, and the different interfaces for each site make hopping around among iTunes, Grooveshark, imeem and Pandora awkward.

twones-screenshot-1Twones — pronounced like “tunes” — makes a Firefox / Internet Explorer add-on that unifies 25 music services into one interface.

Twones also claims to be a rich source of information and bonding experiences built atop the music links, but it’s nowhere near last.fm’s seemingly infinite amount of user-contributed content.

What matters most is Twones will track all of these services in a common interface:

  • Last.fm
  • MySpace
  • Deezer
  • Muxtape
  • Seeqpod
  • Favtape.com
  • Finetune
  • Joost
  • Grooveshark Lite
  • Hype Machine
  • iTunes
  • iLike
  • MOG
  • imeem
  • Winamp
  • nuTsie
  • Ning.com
  • YouTube
  • Luisterpaal 3voor12
  • SkreemR.com
  • Windows Media Player
  • Songza
  • Pitchfork.tv
  • Play.it

twones-screenshot-2Pandora support is coming soon, a company spokesman told me.

If you’re looking to bond with a bunch of fellow music fans, or go data-diving for everything there is to know about Architeq, last.fm is the Alexandria library of info. But Twones performs one function well: It consolidates your music interfaces, which makes them easier to use, which saves you time fussing with them, which lets you spend more time listening.

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Paul (paul@venturebeat.com) covers Apple & the iPhone, social networks & social media, digital music & video, and any crazy Internet story. Paul wrote and edited for Valleywag from 2006-2008, after several years with Wired magazine and Slate. He writes regularly for The New York Times' technology section and sometimes for Wired and The Wall Street Journal. He studied computer science at MIT in the early 1980s, and worked as a software developer and network administrator for 15 years before becoming a professional writer. Follow him on Twitter at @paulboutin, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.

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