music community

MacMusic is a guide to music and audio on the Macintosh. It has coverage of Apple iLife GarageBand.

Features include news, an online community, a directory, freeware and shareware software, a directory of Mac music links, articles, and classified ads.

MacBand is an online directory of songs and loops created by artists who submit their work of their own volition. Songs are organized by category and loops are organized by genre, instrument and mood.

Aside from being a simple directory, MacBand is searchable. If you are looking for a particular type of song or loop, the search feature can help you find it instantly.

Every artist who has an account with MacBand has a personal Artist Profile page. This page lists a short biography and any other information the artist wants to release. It also has a list of every song and loop that artist has submitted to MacBand. Furthermore, the addresses of these pages are easy to remember. An artist with the username of jane123 for example, would have her personal Artist Profile located at http://www.macband.com/~jane123. It’s that easy!

MacJams.com is an online community for users of Apple GarageBand music software. GarageBand is a part of Apple’s iLife suite for digitial media content creation and management. Apple’s iLife products allow users to create movies, DVDs, photo collections, and now with GarageBand, their own musical compositions. MacJams.com is also a community for beginner Mac-based computer musicians, though we focus on use of the Apple GarageBand software.

Digitally Imported brings the latest european techno and trance music to the net. DI has several free streaming stations, including techno, trance, vocal trance, hard trance, chillout, and hardcore.

The site doesn’t provide downloads, but just high-quality streaming electronica. Streams are available at 28k, up to 128k. There’s community forums and chat room for each channel, in addition to general topics.

One of the best features is the recent playlist history. This provides the playlist for each channel, so you can browse, in reverse chronological order, the list of recently played songs. For each song, you can read previously posted ratings and comments, and add your own.

This is a great idea – a free music site devoted to a specific style of music.

Trance Addict doesn’t have a huge amount of music, but what it has it good. It provides singles for download, and DJ sets. There are also videos to download.

It’s more than just free trance music downloads, though. The best part of Trance Addict is its forums. The forums are very active, and because they focus on one main topic, you don’t have to wade through a bunch of irrelevent garbage.