Melange of moods

February 17, 2011 04:18 pm | Updated 04:19 pm IST

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“Because you had a bad day, you're taking one down. You sing a sad song just to turn it around,” goes Daniel Powter's popular number, ‘Bad Day'. There seems to be an element of truth to it. Have you ever had those moments when you wanted to listen to a sprightly, upbeat song when you're happy or a mellow instrumental when you're blue? Well, you can.

After virtual radio stations and personalised playlists, the newest offering online is mood music sites. Here are four that allow you to groove to your mood.

www.stereomood.com

Stereomood calls itself an ‘emotional internet radio'. You can listen via search bar or pick a mood from tag clouds on its home page.

There are songs for every mood, and I'm not kidding. “Lost in thought”, “Just woke up”, “Busy as a bee” and “Lost in Jamaica” are just a sample of the myriad human moods and activities to choose from.

You can sign in and create a playlist too. It has a simple, bloggish, psychedelic template that is interesting but quite user-friendly.

“Stereomood is a straightforward site that allows you to discover new songs, and they have a good collection for each mood. The site does everything for you. You just have to get on it and click a mood,” says Anubhooti Panda.

www.aupeo.com

Aupeo! (The exclamation is slanted, by the way) is a German site that has everything in one space. Perhaps that's why it is a ‘personal radio'.

You can search for songs, listen to a radio channel, personalise and click on a mood to soak in it.

It allows you to ‘love' or ‘ban' songs as well. You can choose from about 10 moods and play on forever.

The template is a bright lime green with a steely white. Quite sprightly, I must say. It's also available on iPhone.

www.musicovery.com

Musicovery is hot…and cool. Their biggest pull is the ‘mood pad', a squarish-white area where the four directions mark four extreme moods. And you can move all around it and follow the different colours. When you move your mouse over one of the million coloured rectangles, it plays a preview, which you can follow by clicking it. Though you need to have a premium membership to personalise, it's still worth a good try. You can select songs by mood, decade and genre. The template, to put it briefly, is creative.

www.moodstream.gettyimages.com

True to its name, the website streams your mood. ‘Moodstream is a powerful brainstorming tool designed to help take you to inspiring, unexpected directions,' says its intro page. Getty Images has very cleverly interspersed mood, music, videos and pictures. You have a moodboard and a moodband where you can play your customised stream of videos and pictures. There is also a mood wheel with symbols describing a particular state of mind. There are so many toggles to play around with that you might take a while to get used to the interface which may leave you a bit unnerved since it plays only snippets. The template is very creative.

“Moodswings attracts the user and has excellent mood selection options. The songs also match the mood. The highlight about it is the video that continuously plays in the background, right in tune with your mood,” says Abhishek Subramanian.

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