iLike Social Music Discovery for iTunes

By Geoff Duncan
October 25, 2006

GarageBand.com's founders have rolled out iLike.com, a new social music discovery add-on which integrates with Apple's iTunes and, eventually, with other music services.

The founders of long-running independent music Web site GarageBand.com have taken the wraps off iLike, a new social music discovery service which integrates directly with Apple's iTunes jukebox application, enabling users to discover new music and share their favorite music with friends.

The basic idea behind iLike is that users install the iLike Sidebar for iTunes (available for Windows XP and Mac OS X); the sidebar adds a Buddy List-like feature to iTunes, enabling users to see what music their friends like, and listen to 30-second samples. By creating a profile of music listening habits on the iLike Web sites, the sidebar can offer personalized music recommendations from the more than 200,000 artists represented on GarageBand.com's music service. The sidebar also offers a one-click playlist ...

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