Musicovery is an interesting user interface for selecting online streaming music.

The interface consists of a box with the words “calm” in the bottom center, “energetic” in the center top, “dark” in the center left, and “positive” in the center right. It’s like a matrix or graph. Click in the region of the box corresponding to what you want to listen to ie. in the upper right quadrant for positive energetic music.

Above the mood selector are two tabs- one labelled “mood”, the other “dance” which allow you to specify music for dancing. Below the mood selector are eighteen buttons that allow you to limit selections to a certain genre such as “metal” or “latino”. Hovering over one of these buttons instantiates a smaller version of the mood matrix for just that genre and a mix is generated.

Once a selection is specified, a set of colored boxes with song titles in them appear scattered on the right side of the screen and connected by a curved, looping line. The line shows the sequence of play with the song currently playing centered in the right side screen area and showing a play/pause button and links to various places to buy the song.

The lo-fi service is free, but hi-fi “CD quality” streams cost two euro per month.

Musicovery looks like an interesting new toy for online music listeners and may be great for parties. If it had a button for instrumental I would call it almost perfect.