Ang Peregrino Recommends 88: Stereo Mood

Stere­o­Mood
URL: http://​www​.stere​o​mood​.com/

I’ve been hav­ing some emo moments lately, and in my effort to look for songs to accom­pany me, I found out about this great web­site. I call them “songs that cap­ture my state of mind.” And they are. We love music because it makes us remem­ber things of the past and it makes us feel about things hap­pen­ing to us at present.

The con­cept of Stereo Mood is sim­ple: Because behind every song is an emo­tion, so Stereo Mood has cre­ated a way to sug­gest songs that fol­low your feel­ings. Stere­o­mood is the “emo­tional inter­net radio”, pro­vid­ing music that best suits your mood and your activities.

And it’s so much more than an online radio, it’s a tool to cre­ate playlists for every occa­sion, a tool to share emo­tions through the music.

stere­o­mood is:
gio­vanni fer­ron — archi­tec­ture, sleep­less web devel­op­ment, head­banger
daniele novaga — archi­tec­ture, front-end devel­op­ment, music ego­ma­niac
mau­r­izio pratici — archi­tec­ture, web devel­op­ment, music evan­ge­list
eleonora viviani — archi­tec­ture, design & ui, music maniac
sil­via pianelli — press, pub­lic relations

a bit of his­tory
The idea of Stere­o­mood was born in feb­ru­ary 2007 in milan. The story goes that Gio­vanni Fer­ron was so drained by the music Mau­r­izio Pratici played in an exhaust­ingly loud vol­ume, that he decided at any cost to pro­vide him with an online tool to lis­ten to, arrange and share the newest tracks from the best inter­na­tional music blogs.

And so the next log­i­cal ques­tion was asked: why don’t we arrange our mp3 files accord­ing to the peo­ple moods and activ­i­ties?

How many times do we get up on a sleepy sun­day morn­ing with the desire to play great and lively songs on the spot, with­out wast­ing a lot of time look­ing for the right cd or mp3 file among all the oth­ers and los­ing our tem­per? How many times would we love to tidy up our room and dust at the place of music with­out smok­ing so many cig­a­rettes while wait­ing for the right song to be on?

Some fea­tures are still miss­ing, but as it is, Stere­o­mood hopes to help us expe­ri­ence music in new, excit­ing and emo­tional ways.

From STEREOMOOD:
Copy­right
Stere­o­mood sup­ports and respects the artists, writ­ers, edi­tors and pro­duc­ers who cre­ate orig­i­nal con­tent avail­able on the web.

Stere­o­mood site users are encour­aged to enjoy legit­i­mate down­load­able media and sup­port artists by pur­chas­ing music after sam­pling it online. we pro­vide full acknowl­edge­ment of the source and author for all audio that pro­vides it — and we rec­om­mend that blog pub­lish­ers include appro­pri­ate meta­data when mak­ing audio avail­able on the web. we also pro­vide links to pur­chase music from Ama​zon​.com, iTunes Music Store, where possible.

addi­tion­ally, authors of all post­ings that we index are clearly iden­ti­fied when­ever they appear on stere­o­mood web­site or in the search results. all such men­tions have a link to more infor­ma­tion about the spe­cific blog and a link directly to where the post appears on the internet.

as a search/indexing engine, we enable users to find all sorts of audio. we can’t be respon­si­ble for what peo­ple post on their blogs, and we can’t be respon­si­ble for what you do with it when you find it.

the search/indexing inter­face con­tains links to other weblogs/websites. stere­o­mood nei­ther con­trols nor endorses these web sites, nor reviews or approves any con­tent appear­ing on them. stere­o­mood does not assume any respon­si­bil­ity or lia­bil­ity for any mate­ri­als avail­able at these web sites, or for the com­plete­ness, avail­abil­ity, accu­racy, legal­ity or decency of these sites.

those tracks are not avail­able for down­load and are not stored on our servers, but you can pre­view them via the play but­tons that are next to each track. if you believe in good faith that mate­ri­als we link to infringe your copy­right, you (or your agent) can con­tact us request­ing that we remove the links to the material.

the des­ig­nated e-mail address for these com­mu­ni­ca­tions is abuse@stereomood.com

I’m mak­ing this blog post while lis­ten­ing to the RELAX playlist of Stere­o­Mood in the back­ground. You should visit it! It’s really cool.