I haven’t had the chance to write for quite awhile since I have been swamped at work, but I’ve made a list of things to write about over the past 3 months and this was at the top of the list. Musotik is music information site. That’s pretty much it. It’s still in Beta, and the developer has pointed out that many of the things they would like to work simply aren’t right now, but this site has potential. Type in an artist’s name and hopefully you’ll get a hit. If so, you are then provided with tabs of information on an artist including bio, events, news, pictures and torrents. Links on where to check them out are provided for you on the left from the following services; LastFM, Pandora, SonicX, Youtube, and MusicBrainz. Related artists appear underneath the link to music services. On the bottom of thepage are links to YoutTube videos on the artist you’ve searched for.

What I like about Musotik is that it brings all of this information from several different sources and puts it in one place. Album art, YouTube videos, track listings, artist information, pics, all in one place. There are definitely bugs. I tried several artists, from several styles, and for the most part there was information on each artist. I found it hard to believe that there was no bio information on the Beatles though. No where it gets iffy is in the songs. Artist’s albums are listed and each album lists the individual tracks. By clicking on on a track, you can either listen to, or download the song. There is an advisory informing the user that Musotik does not host the songs and that downloading them could be illegal. I’m interested to see what happens, but this may get them into trouble.

All in all, this has the potential to develop into a very fun and useful tool.