Seeqpod, and the way it is changing my music habits.

Sometimes an idea comes along, and you know it is good because..., well, because it is just so simple that you wonder how come nobody has done it before.

So, here is Seeqpod . Now, on the surface it looks like yet another social network site where you can listen to what your friends are listening, and be a part of a community, and create tags, and so on. Well, it is not. First of all there is nothing explicitly social about it, and the forefront is the music - a lot of music (and some videos) crawled from different resources on the web. Kind of like P2P, but without the part where you actually download anything, so it is kind of legal (I guess, otherwise they would shut it down, wouldn't they?).

And now comes the cool part. You can just search for and instantly listen to any song you like (and Seeqpod has a pretty good coverage), or, if you are like me and you are into listening to full albums you haven't heard in a while, you can create your own playlist - or search for someone else's. So you just type: "Porthishead - Third", and get to listen to the whole album online, seamlessly constructed from songs streamed from god knows where. This is the "social" part - people sharing their playlists, but it's not really social because you just create the list for yourself - to help you organize your own music (well, not really "your own")! And the list is actually useful to other people as well --- since it is an actual album, and not a bunch of random songs tagged with "progressive", or whatever.