The continued growth of online radio stations that offer streaming audio was interrupted by a number of lawsuits filed by a number of corporations in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Fortunately, some legal options are now available, including Mercora, which is an Internet software system that includes a universal Internet radio tuner linked to many different channels and users. After downloading...

If you like experimenting with music, you may find that Otomata is just about the best thing ever. Created by Batuhan Bozkurt, Otomata is an online generative sequencer that produces "sound events" through the movement of cells. Visitors can move the cells in different ways to create a range of sounds and textures, and it can be quite addictive. There's also a demonstration video here that will...

Individuals' music collections that are stored on a computer, whether legal or not, are often quite large and consist of many different artists. This unique research paper from Hewlett-Packard outlines a system that can automatically identify the singer of a song based upon digital samples of that song, allowing for hassle-free sorting of many titles. The system is first trained by exposing it to...