A music sharing is website that enables users to store and share their multimedia files (photos, videos, music) with others. Sharing music with people that are important to you is an amazing way to become closer.
Here is a List of Best music sharing websites
Amazon Music Unlimited
Amazon Music is a music streaming platform and online music store operated by Amazon. Launched in public beta on September 25, 2007, in January 2008 it became the first music store to sell music without digital rights management from the four major music labels, as well as many independents.
Developer: Amazon.com
Categories: Streaming media
Apple Music
Apple Music is a music, audio and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users select music to stream to their device on-demand, or they can listen to existing playlists.
Launch date: June 30, 2015; 7 years ago
Availability: 168 countries Widely in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, and in parts of Africa and the Middle East
Developer: Apple Inc.
Last updated: September 16, 2020; 21 months ago
Awards: Echo Award for Trade Partner of the Year
DatPiff
DatPiff is an online distribution platform that was launched in 2005. It is headquartered in Pennsylvania. It specializes in hip-hop, rap, and urban music. The site was founded in the spring of 2005 by Marcus Frasier. It is owned by MediaLab AI Inc..
Headquarters: U.S
Users: 15,000,000+
Launched: 2005
Deezer
Deezer is a French online music streaming service. It allows users to listen to music content from record labels, as well as podcasts on various devices online or offline.
Headquarters: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Available in: 180+ countries
Key people: Jeronimo Folgueira (CEO); Laurent Cordonnier (CFO); Matthieu Gorvan (CTO)
Founder(s): Daniel Marhely; Jonathan Benassaya
Founded: August 2007; 14 years ago; Paris, France
Native client(s) on: Web, Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry OS, MacOS
Google Play Music
Google Play Music is a discontinued music and podcast streaming service and an online music locker operated by Google as part of its Google Play line of services. The service was announced on May 10, 2011; after a six-month, invitation-only beta period, it was publicly launched on November 16, 2011.
Discontinued: December 3, 2020; 19 months ago
Developer: Google
Status: Discontinued
Launch date: November 16, 2011; 10 years ago
Platforms: Android, Android TV, iOS, Web browser
Jamendo
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Jamendo is a Luxembourg-based music website and an open community of independent artists and music lovers. A subsidiary of Belgian company AudioValley, and Independent Management Entity since 2019. Originally, Jamendo was a music platform under Creative Commons licenses.
Founded: 2005
Headquarters: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Albums: GeNicode, Temple of the Vampire, Jeunesse, Photoxic
Founders: Sylvain Zimmer, Pierre Gérard
Live Music Archive
The Live Music Archive, part of the Internet Archive, is an ad-free collection of over 170,000 concert recordings in lossless audio formats. The songs are also downloadable or playable in lossy formats such as Ogg Vorbis or MP3.
Date launched: 1996
Musopen
Musopen Inc. is a 501 non-profit organization located in Tarzana, California, launched by Aaron Dunn in 2005. It aims to “set music free” by providing music to the public free of charge, without copyright restrictions.
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Noise Trade
NoiseTrade is a global online audio and book direct-to-fan distribution platform. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee. It enables its users to upload original music and books and give away for free without digital rights management to anyone who provides at least an e-mail address and zip code.
Headquarters location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Founded: April 2008
Founder(s): Derek Webb, Joe Kirk, Mark Nicholas, David McCollum, Brannon McAllister
Users: 1.3 million users (December 2015), 50,000 albums (Dec. 2015)
SoundCloud
SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform and music sharing website that enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio, as well as a digital signal processor enabling listeners to stream audio. Wikipedia
CEO: Michael Weissman (Jan 1, 2021–)
Founded: August 2007, Stockholm, Sweden
Users: 175 million (unique monthly listeners)
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founders: Alexander Ljung, Eric Wahlforss
Type of business: Privately held company
Written in: Ruby, Scala
Spotify
Spotify is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 422 million monthly active users, including 182 million paying subscribers, as of March 2022.
Founded: April 23, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden
CEO: Daniel Ek (2006–)
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Founders: Daniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon
Subsidiaries: Spotify Limited, Spotify AB, Sonalytic Ltd., Spotify India Private Limited, Spotify USA, Spotify Mexico, Soundtrap AB
Tidal
Tidal is a Norwegian-American subscription-based music, podcast and video streaming service that offers audio and music videos. Tidal was launched in 2014 by Swedish public company Aspiro and is now majority-owned by Block, Inc., an American payment processing company.
Developer: Block, Inc.
Availability: 61 countries
Launch date: October 28, 2014; 7 years ago
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows; macOS; iOS; Android
Owner: Aspiro
YouTube Music
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YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by YouTube, a subsidiary of Google. It provides a tailored interface for the service, oriented towards music streaming, allowing users to browse through songs and music videos on YouTube based on genres, playlists, and recommendations.
Availability: 100 countries; mostly in the Americas, Europe and Oceania, and in parts of Africa and Asia
Key people: Susan Wojcicki (YouTube CEO); T. Jay Fowler (Director of Product Management); Lyor Cohen (YouTube Global Head of Music)
Date launched: November 12, 2015
Developer: YouTube
Platforms: Android, iOS, ChromeOS, Wear OS, Google Nest, Sonos, Android TV, Android Auto, World Wide Web
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