Shuffler.fm is a clever, blog-powered take on online listening

David Greenwald, blog editor for the L.A. Times’ Brand X reviewed Shuffler.fm, a way to listen to songs by visiting the blogs they appear on.

The landing page presents a list of genres. Once a user chooses his or her own adventure (at present, anything from hip-hop to lo-fi to singer-songwriter), the site shifts to an appropriate blog post, with Shuffler.fm displayed as a toolbar streaming a randomly chosen track.
Users can click forward and back, jumping from song to song and blog to blog, where the songs being streamed can generally be downloaded as MP3s. The songs are sorted into genres by filtering them through Last.fm, itself a dependably accurate, if broad, user-powered music-listening and statistics hub.

Meet Shuffler.fm, the music blogosphere's newest aggregator

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Ben

I imagine viewing this site from within Songbird would be meta-awesome.
Anonymous

This is pretty freakin’ awesome. It’s like an automated version of the extensionFM plug-in to the chrome web browser; the difference is that they surf music blogs for you! Downside: you may end-up fast-forwarding through more songs that you’re less-than-interested in.
AllisonWunderland

Links don’t navigate. I don’t get any music.
926

Tumbleweed.