The Pirate Bay Adds Music Discovery Tools
The Pirate Bay has rolled out some interesting new features designed to help users discover new music. When you go to a page containing a music torrent, provided TPB can parse out the name of the band, you’ll see a new link to “show detailed artist info,” just below the torrent info box.
Clicking the link will reveal a new panel with the name of the artist, an image, a list of albums (with links to other torrents if they exist), related artists and an embedded Last.fm radio widget which lets you listen to the artist right from the page.
The Pirate Bay’s Brokep tells TorrentFreak that the new features are “a first step towards our goal of getting meta data seriously into the torrent scene.”
Say what you will about TPB’s copyright stance, but these features have the potential to gain a band more new listeners and that’s never a bad thing for the band.
The Pirate Bay’s new music features are currently a beta and don’t work on every music page, but hopefully support will improve as the site matures. There’s also a forum post where you can report any bugs you might discover.
[via Digg]
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