Carnegie Mellon student Ryan Lester has created a new streaming music service called Napster.fm. It’s not affiliated with the famous Napster service of the early 00s. It allows you to search for and listen to songs, using YouTube as a source. Mellon says in his FAQ the service is ‘dependent on minor inefficiencies in YouTube’s piracy-detection system’, so you might not always get the version of the song you want.
The developer clearly has a sense of humor: the first track that loads when you open the site is Rick Astley’s ‘Never gonna give you up’, famously used for the ‘Rickrolling‘ meme.
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