Peel

There are handful of music blogs I read that serve up a daily or weekly selection of mp3s, some for download, some just for streaming. I really enjoying finding new music this way, but it’s a lot of work to visit each site, figure out which tracks I want, then download individually. And it’s always disappointing when songs I haven’t heard are no longer available or when streaming-only tracks are the ones I want most.

Then LifeHacker turned me on to Peel last week, changing my music hoarding habits for the better. Peel is an iTunes look-a-like RSS reader specific to music blogs. I have all my favorite blogs in one familiar player that lets me click to listen, right-click to download (including the streaming-only songs), and even add directly to iTunes. Peel is for Macs only, and currently in beta. The beta is free, the official release will go for $15.