Musicovery – Find music to suit your mood

Musicovery is a fun and colorful website that lets you find your mood-appropriate music with several adjustable options. First, it instructs you to chart your mood on a grid, with the x-axis going from dark to positive, and the y-axis ranging from energetic to calm. Then, below the chart, you can select which genres of music you’d like Musicovery to dig around in for you, and which music decades you’d like to be included in the search. Sounds awesome right?

Musicovery then creates a brightly coloured family tree of mood music for you. Each burst on the tree has a shade corresponding to a genre (rap is dark red, funk is light green, etc.). Although you have to register on the site in order to shuffle from one song to another, you can always alter your mood on the grid if you don’t like what’s coming up. You can also ban songs you don’t like, and you’ll get the next song in the lineup.
There is now also the option to let Musicovery dig through your own iTunes collection and find the right music for your mood. Add to that it’s availability through Wii and the Sony PS3 and you have a really accessible service.

As an added perk, if you’re looking for something to dance to, there’s an additional grid to refine your search. This grid allows you to alter the dance-ability and tempo of your tunes. There’s also a discovery feature that will just plainly surf Musicovery’s library for you without any fuss.

It’s probably not going to destroy the Spotify or Last.fm’s of this world but it’s a really quirky fun way to pass the time at work!