So Many Essential Music Sites

A list-making frenzy seems to be gripping the online music world; from a humble enumeration of 17 music distribution portals, to the mighty compendium of Music 2.0, we now are treated to 90+ essential sites as so deemed by Mashable.

Well why not? In truth, this is a good source of browsage for a rainy afternoon – plenty of places where one can listen to music, sell music, jam along with other musicians, remix, karaoke, find artist info, discover song lyrics, and so on. Down in the nether reaches of the list you will find some audio conversion tools, one of which converts text to audio. If you’re looking for some sample inspiration, FindSounds may be of particular interest – here you can search through a database of audio samples, and filter the results by file format, bit resolution, sample rate and file size.