I don’t know if anyone’s noticed this startup by the name of Project Playlist, which calls itself a Social Music Experiment. It basically follows the whole music+social interface scheme alot of the music sites have adopted like imeem or last.fm. In playlist’s story, you signup and search for music. In the search results page, you see a listing of all the resulting songs with a little flash player by each song that plays the song when clicked on. Along with the usual stuff listed with each song is something that I personally was flabbergasted at first to see. They put the URL of each and every mp3 song they have on their listings. Note: the songs are not in like a database of their own, but picked from across the web. Picture what this has in store for record sellers. Yeah, FAIL. Take a look for yourself. Anyone can download as many songs as they want–and remember that they’re all in good mp3 quality.

Kinda hard to see where this goes though, seeing that soo much music is pirated these days. Bittorrent has made this especially easy, as has email and host of other technologies. Out of this whole affair, you either get some very happy social-media consumers and a very happy Project Playlist, or the gallows will be pulled out for the easier to take care of, which is ofcourse, the latter.

Anyways, when you see a track you like, you can add it to a playlist of yours. Playlists are in flash format, but you can also get them as .m3u and standalone flash or .ram

What I’m wondering is, however, how they managed to catalog so much music like this. idk, but it must be pretty ingenious.