Bandcamp
bandcamp.com
Stream independent music in full, and buy it as lossless files if you want it
No sign-up
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imeem.com
Streamed music, video and photos around a social profile before that was normal.
Use Bandcamp instead
Stream independent music in full, and buy it as lossless files if you want it. Free streaming is capped at a few plays per release before it nudges you to buy, and the catalogue is only what artists chose to upload.
Open BandcampA media social network where the playlist was the profile — you followed people for what they were listening to. Licensing costs outran the advertising revenue, MySpace acquired it in December 2009, and the catalogue and playlists were switched off almost immediately rather than migrated.
Questions
No. imeem is no longer running and imeem.com does not serve the tool any more. Bandcamp is the closest current equivalent — it stream independent music in full, and buy it as lossless files if you want it.
Yes. imeem sends your input to its own servers to process it. That is fine for public material; for anything containing personal data, use one of the on-device tools instead.
Acquired by MySpace in 2009 and shut down; user playlists were not migrated.
Alternatives
Same category or same task, ordered by how closely they overlap.
bandcamp.com
Stream independent music in full, and buy it as lossless files if you want it
freesound.org
Half a million Creative Commons sound samples, searchable by how they sound
music-map.com
Type one band and get a cloud of the artists people who like them also like
radio.garden
Spin a globe and listen to whatever a local station is playing right now
musiclab.chromeexperiments.com
Fourteen small experiments that let you build a rhythm and see harmony move
flat.io
Write and hear proper sheet music in a browser, with real-time collaboration