Sometimes downloading the song of the day is a waste; you might grow out of it soon anyway and it’s pretty easy to listen to any popular song for free whenever you’re by a computer.
When I just want someone else to pick a playlist for me, I tap free Internet radio such as Pandora. But if I’m looking for a specific song I can’t get out of my head, I go to YouTube. Listening to music is a perfect example of how the uses of the video-sharing site have far surpassed posting videos of cats.
I recently discovered a tool to aid my YouTube-music-listening habit: TubeRadio.fm is a Web application that nicely catalogs YouTube videos. The interface looks like iTunes, but is for people like me who are sick of their actual iTunes collection and want to tap the wealth of free music hanging out on the Web. To paraphrase Rogerio Mota, the site's co-founder, TubeRadio is to iTunes or WinAmp what Google Docs is to Microsoft Word: a Web site that behaves like a desktop application.
Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly suggested that TubeRadio is affiliated with last.fm. They are not affiliated, but use the last.fm database.
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