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What about something like pandora for DRM free music?

here's another one: indy "plays songs, you rate what you hear. Indy quickly learns what you like and gets really smart about sending you more music you'll like." (Win/Mac/Linux). When I tried it about a year ago, they didn't have enough songs, though...

http://www.rateyourmusic.com/

may let you discover some stuff after you rate some albums

http://www.indy.tv/

http://www.irateradio.com/

will let you discover Indy music, and will send you some you will like after doing some rating, again

no sounds like type stuff on these, but still definitely worthwhile

This is exactly why they want to stop it. Are people really going to take a chance and buy an unknown album at today's rate ? Probably not.

What are they going to do ? They will buy what they know. Which mean what they heard on radio or saw on TV.

Who control radio and TV ? Big corporation.

With P2P (and projects like Indy), artists don't need big bucks anymore to promote their albums, which mean you could end up buying stuff from them instead of those who control medias.

From the indy.tv FAQ

Where does Indy's music come from?
All music on Indy has been made freely available on the web by artists. When Indy downloads music, it comes directly from the artist's website, and you can visit that website by clicking on the title of the track in Indy's user interface.

The only p2p sharing that's going on here is the sharing of users' ratings and the urls that link to mp3s on the web. It is not possible to inject illegal mp3s into the network because there are no mp3s on the network. The mp3s are on a separate network.

I am curious whether there could be potential liability to users if links to illegal mp3s are placed on the network. Although one can be liable for copyright infringement without knowing that a work violates someone's copyright (the reason SCO could sue AutoZone), I question whether a person could be liable when they don't even choose to download the particular file. It is the program that chooses what files to download, not the user.

This is probably an unsettled question under the law, and it would be interesting to read the opinion of some copyright experts on this.

From the FAQ, "Our Mac and Linux versions of Indy will be ready for summer 2005."

This article has a review of the player. Not ready from prime time software buat a great idea though. As another poster pointed it its based on the open source Irate software .
It also looks like an ipod shuffle sideways with a screen.

When the page is done with its slashdotting, you can submit your music to the indy page

"Clarke is also the designer of Dijjer, a distributed P2P web cache, meant to reduce the bandwidth load on slashdotted websites." - From wikipedia

http://www.indy.tv/ is already not responding :\