Music...Web 2.0 Style

For this exercise I checked out Last.fm.  The site was pretty good but not perfect.  First the good stuff:

Last.fm seems to have a pretty good selection and lots of information about bands, albums, and even specific songs.  The more obscure you get the less information there is, but there were numerous bands that I was surprised were on the site at all.  Also, this is one of the few sites that seems to be pretty good at guessing what I would be interested in.  For instance, if I type in "Sir Lord Baltimore" the site also shows similar artists such as Leaf Hound, Granicus, and Bang which is not only correct, but is also what I would be interested in listening to if I were already listening to Sir Lord Baltimore. The site is also well designed and easy to use.

Unfortunately, the site is not perfect.  First, the sound quality isn't great.  It sounds like they're using mp3's which always results in poor sound quality, and I'm sure the problem is compounded by these terrible Coby headphones.  Second, the songs aren't always the original version of the song, and I believe are not even always by the original artist, yet they are presented as though that is the version that is actually on the album.  This is inexcusable, and I would be surprised if they haven't had complaints from artists.

Anyway, as for Web 2.0 the site has all of the usual features like, comments, tags, music sharing, etc.  Also like usual I can't say that I'm too interested in that aspect of the site.  I would like the site better if they took out all of the social networking features and instead focused on expanding their selection and replacing the fake versions of songs with the real deal.