The 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 -- 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
Pandora 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.