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Music that YOU want to hear: from finetune’s fine music widget

February 20th, 2008

by Al Merkrebs, February 20, 2008 @ 2:08 p.m. PST

This morning I went on a widget journey. I decided that I wanted to find a good Internet music widget for my desktop. Two hours later (yes two!), I found the needle in the widget haystack. OK, I know there are tons of desktop music players out there, but they are usually linked to only one station, and they are not nearly as cool as a widget that can have all kinds of neat options.

So my journey ended at SpringWidgets, one of the major widget communities, where I found the Finetune Player widget. What do I like about this streaming music widget? For starters, it lets you find music that YOU want to hear, based on artist name or tags, or even playlists you’ve created on the finetune site. Using the widget I searched for the tag “Funk”, and this little baby put in me heaven in about 3 seconds. Fine job, finetune!

Pros: Can be downloaded as a desktop widget, or inserted as a Web widget; automatically generates great playlists based on your searches; nice controls for music searches; displays album artwork.

Cons: CPU heavy- my poor 800 Mhz CPU was giving up 70-80% of its cycles to this little guy.

Coolness factor: 4/5

Engine required: SpringWidgets’ “SpringBox”.

Download widget here: Finetune Player widget

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