Brindle Media

For those of us who’ve been used to the standard in-car FM/AM/CD player with mp3 player plug-in options, things are about to get a lot more complicated. It won’t be long before the ability to receive Internet radio will become standard in new cars which will mean that you’ll have the ability to choose from not only local radio stations but also from among the 10,000 or more Internet stations from around the world.

Can you say “Information overload” ?

It’s pretty obvious that we’re going to need help in narrowing our choices with aggregators and I’ve been wondering when we’d start seeing these services pop up. So I was pleased to read Jennifer Lane’s Audio4cast (www.Audio4cast.com) and Mark Ramsey’s Hear 2.0 (www.hear2.com) recent blogs about Muziic and MixCloud.

Jennifer notes that Muziic was created by 15 year old developer and offers the chance to search for music, listen to Internet radio stations, watch music videos, build playlists, chat with friends, or post what you’re listening to on Twitter.

Mark points out that MixCloud is designed to be the equivalent of YouTube for radio shows. It’s not about individual songs but rather about individual talk or music shows.

I’d be interested to learn what you think about these services.