Hard-to-find no more: The impressive song library of streaming apps

Some songs were so wonderfully played and written that fans and music connoisseurs wonder why they never charted.

Such was the point of this Huffington Post article, which listed down quite a handsome number of tunes that well captured the ‘80s, when glam rock was in and tons of hairspray fashioned thick piles of hair.

However, songs on the said list, such as David Bowie's tuneful and moody "Ashes to Ashes" and "Burning Up," a fiery, upbeat tune from a then up-and-coming Madonna, were pushed aside into oblivion by smash hits that ruled the radio and the Top 40 charts in the ‘80s.

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Other gems, like Queen's "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" and Eric Clapton's "May You Never," were not big enough to make it to the iconic artists' compilation albums, leaving frustrated music lovers thinking of taking trips to specialty record bars or rare-item stores just to get a hold of these tunes, no matter how far and wide and tedious the search can get.

Music aficionados shouldn't fret, though. Digital copies of these songs exist somewhere along the infinite cloud. All it takes is hitting the search bar, or sifting through the sea of music streaming sites and online radio channels.

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With libraries averaging 25 million songs, listeners subscribed to music streaming services will definitely not end up empty-handed if it's rare musical gems that they are finding.

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For the discriminating, curious, and adventurous tastes, music from niche artists are just a few taps away, and so are relatively unknown tracks and covers by icons back when they were fledging artists. What was once close to being unimaginable has indeed arrived, and waiting to be explored.

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Music apps revive the radio star: How apps make the idea of celestial jukebox happen

In the 1990s, it floated as a possible game-changing idea: At the time when record executives were fraught with fear that competition from television and other emerging mediums might hurt record sales and kill radio, which was the medium that used to drive the sales, the idea of a celestial jukebox was pitched.

 

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Stanford Professor Paul Goldstein coined the term to describe how technology would mean exciting times ahead for music: If video could really kill the radio star, then a new medium for playing songs would resurrect him. The celestial jukebox was envisioned to give listeners access to an almost limitless wealth of past and present songs that could be played right at their fingertips.

That dream is here now. In fact, it has been making baby steps since the early part of the 21st century. People saw the rise of portable devices and websites that allow for streaming and downloading music. What followed was the birth of tablets and smartphones marketed with the promise of better, faster interaction and connection with people. Record-fast Internet speeds and the development of mobile applications allow these gadgets to deliver such promise.

 

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A handful of these applications allow for playing music on demand. Downloadable for a small amount or even for free, in the case of some, these online, customizable stations allow listeners to play and pause their favorite songs and discover new ones. These apps also allow users to share their playlists with their friends, making listening to music a social activity like it used to be. Really, it's like a jukebox minus the nickel slot.

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It's no wonder about half of Americans are hooked into at least one of these music streaming apps on their mobile gadgets.

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