Yahoo Music is one of the best web sites for fans of music. They offer free and paid membership plans, depending on what you want to enjoy from their site. Here is some of what they offer:
1. Videos
You can stream music videos directly on their site. You have the ability to choose what type of videos you want to see: newly released, most popular, by genre or by artist. The videos play four or five in a row, and then have a short commercial if you are a free member. Paying members do not see commercials between videos, only when they start the player up.
2. Radio
You can choose what music you want to listen to by setting up your own radio station. This can be by artists, genres, your favorite song mixes or you can let them randomly choose your songs. The music will play several songs in a row before a short ad is played for the free members. Subscribers don’t hear ads during radio play.
3. Music Profiles
Yahoo Music provides bios and information on bands, solo artists, tour dates and all music related business news. RSS feeds can alert you immediately if something big is about to break.
4. Download Songs
Paying members have the ability to download songs with their membership plan. The song can be uploaded to your computer, and then on to another device if you so choose. They are not a song sharing site, however, as you cannot upload songs to them. They have exclusive licenses with artists and record labels to sell the music.
With the radio and video features, you have the ability to rate the song or video. Your rating will determine how often Yahoo music plays that song or artist for you in the future while you are in random play mode.
There is also the ability to skip. A skip is if you are listening in random mode and don’t like a song, you can skip it and move to the next one. Free members can skip up to five songs or videos during their random play period. Paid subscribers have unlimited skip possibilities with both.
