# Wanted: Aggregated Group Playlist

By [colin test again](https://paragraph.com/@colin-test-again) · 2010-07-17

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![](http://wrkng.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/music-pipe.png "music-pipe")

I love music, but I am really bad about keeping up with new stuff.  My iTunes library is only so-so, so I spend most of my time listening to playlists on [8tracks](http://8tracks.com).  This is good for variety, and great for finding the right background music for a BBQ or party, but there's something missing: my friends. I have a few friends who have great taste in music, and who are totally on top of what's new and good.  As it works now, every once in a while I'll get a recommendation from one of them, I'll buy the album on Amazon, and then I'll listen to it non-stop for a few weeks.  It's great when it happens, but it doesn't happen that often.  I want something more automated and frequent. A few of these friends publish their music on the web (see [Piecemaker](http://piecemakerdesign.com/?cat=6) and [My Brooklyn is Better](http://mybrooklynisbetter.com/tagged/music)).  Problem is, they each use different platforms to publish, and as far as I can tell, there's not a great way to combine these into one stream.  Piecemaker uses WordPress and outputs a standard podcast feed, and My Brooklyn is Better uses Tumblr, which embeds a flash player and forbids linking directly to the audio file.  I'm sure I have other friends who are publishing on platforms (Last.fm, 8tracks, Facebook?) that I don't know about yet). So, what I want is a way to take these streams, regardless of platform or format, and create a mixed feed or webpage.  I don't care about actually downloading the music; I just want to be able to listen on the web, keep track of the ones I like, and have the option to buy the albums later. I'm sure this is possible using some combination of tools that are already out there.  For starters, I'm playing around with [Yahoo Pipes](http://streampad.com) to see if I can mash something up to my liking, with an eye towards playing it on the web using [StreamPad](http://streampad.com).  We'll see if that works.  But is there something out there that I'm missing that already does this in a more straightforward way?  Seems like there must be, but I haven't found it yet.

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*Originally published on [colin test again](https://paragraph.com/@colin-test-again/wanted-aggregated-group-playlist)*