The Bottom Line
If you're looking for a quick and easy way to discover new music, then MeeMix offers a simple, but powerful interface to create customized radio stations. This Internet radio service also comes with the social networking tools to share your discoveries with others on various platforms such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and more. Even though MeeMix's video mode can be hit and miss for discovering good quality music videos, overall there's enough content to make the service an excellent resource for music fans.
Pros
- Create your own personalized radio stations
- Good music discovery resource
- Great social networking tools
- Mood control helps you to tweak suggested tracks based on your listening mood
Cons
- poor experience using video mode -- sometimes just a still image with the music track
Description
- Service type: Internet radio
- Music delivery: Streaming
- Social networking tools: internal and external (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and others)
Guide Review - MeeMix Review: Create Your Own Free Internet Radio Stations
Website Experience: Creating personalized radio stations using MeeMix is very easy thanks to the website's intuitive interface. Hovering your mouse pointer for instance over the multi-colored menu near the top of the screen reveals sub-menus that you can use to drill down deeper into the site.
Audio Mode: This mode is the main focus of what makes MeeMix so great to use. With it, you can create your own personalized radio stations by typing in the name of an artist, band, or song name. Once you have set up your first station you can start discovering new music. The algorithms that MeeMix uses to recommend music that you might like are intelligent and come up with some good results. Using the slider bar near the bottom of the screen ,you can rate the current song which will fine-tune MeeMix's recommendations even further. Using the social networking tools, you can share your discoveries with your friends on various social platforms -- Facebook and Twitter to name but two. If you want to inject a bit of variation in MeeMix's recommendations, then using the mood control options will give you a way to discover new music based on your mood.
Video Mode: In this mode, you can watch videos via YouTube. If you see a video you like, you can tag it as a favorite of share it using one of the social networking tools such as MySpace, Facebook, Google, Stumble Upon, or email the link. Although the video feature is a nice alternative to just listening to songs, a lot of the videos it finds are below par -- i.e. videos that contain just a still image with the audio playing. This certainly dilutes the user experience and detracts from what MeeMix is essentially about -- an Internet Radio service.
Game Mode: This is a fun mode that you can switch to for listening to random songs and trying to guess the name of the artist or band singing. It's a great way of competing with friends to see who gets the highest score!
