In this blogpost I’d like to talk to you about
some internetpages and – let’s call them – applications, that are related to my
love for music and movies. I’ll give a short description and why I like them so
much!
Imdb.com
This is a very, very, very handy tool for
everyone who watches a lot of movies and is a bit obsessed with finding out the
answer to the question: Where have I seen that guy/girl before? The Internet
Movie DataBase is – like the title says – a database with a lot of movies. You
can search on movie title, actor, actress, director, composer etcetera. Almost
everything I always want to know, you can find there. I usually use it to check
what other movies an actor was in, or if they played a part in a television series
I know, so I can place him or her. I love this site, just because it gives you
all this general information and it’s easy to use. Just click on link after
link and see where you’ll end up!
Link: http://www.imdb.com/
Whatiwatch.net
What I watch is a new site I discovered like a
week ago. On your profile you can keep like a movie-diary. You can insert the
movies you’ve watched and rate them. You can also make a list of the DVD’s you
have and the TV-shows you see. It’s nice because it actually does a kind of
statistical analysis on your behaviour when watching stuff.
Link to my profile: http://www.whatiwatch.net/overview.php (I hope it works!)
It is in Dutch though!
Allmusic.com
This is like the IMDB only for music. You can
find all kinds of information here, like composer, year album titles,
compilations, EP’s and biographies. It’s very useful when you need to fill in
the information when you’ve downloaded some music. I also use it to search the
year of the albums I listened to for this blog.
Link: http://www.allmusic.com/
Youtube.com
This speaks for itself! The site to
watch video’s covers and live clips. And together with zamzar.com you can
obtain some mp3’s that are great and you mostly can’t download or buy the songs
I obtain through zamzar!
Link (obvious!): http://www.youtube.com/
Zamzar.com
I already mentioned this site. You can use it
to take a Youtube clip and convert it into a mp3 or mp4 only using the URL of
the video. It’s a nice way to get live versions of songs and put them on your
iPod. The only problem is that you can only convert songs up to a certain
amount of MB (like 4:00 minutes is the maximum I think) for free at least.
Link: http://www.zamzar.com/
Last.fm
This is the nicest site I’ve discovered up until
now. This is the site that keeps track of all the songs, albums and artists you
listen to! The only thing you have to do is download a plug-in for Windows
Media Player and for iTunes and it makes a profile of this all online, where
you can also add friends and look at what they listen to. It took me a while to
figure out how the iTunes plug-in worked, but I really like it! Especially the
word they use for the registering off the song: Scrobbling... That’s a nice
word!
Link to my profile: http://www.last.fm/user/lindathefree
You have a favourite site you use a lot?
