So I receive this e-mail from TagWorld that trumpets their new music service.

• Create playlists with an unlimited amount of songs that you can stream to people who visit your site
• Add music from the TagWorld Music page to your personalized Tunes page with one click
• Create on the fly playlists in a standalone music player you can leave open while you surf web
• Upload your own songs and mix them with your playlists (up to 1gb free)

I go back to my TagWorld account which I haven't touched in two months and upload a song. You can create a player that people can use when they go to your TagWorld site with whatever playlists you want, apparently. I was trying to figure out how they can get away with letting me run a pirate radio station through my TagWorld site, which is, of course, exactly what I wanted to do. However…here's what I found in the press release, though:

Users can even upload their own copyrighted music and create customized playlists, including songs from TagWorld artists. (Any such music uploaded by a user is currently only available to stream back for that user's own listening pleasure.)

834 artists is nothing to sneeze at, surely. And they get points for allowing their music to be used on the site (though, for example, Postal Service only appears to make two songs available), but "unlimited" does not equal "834 artists which have made arrangements to let you stream their stuff." At least not in my book. And how helpful is it to upload songs that I own if only I can listen to them? I have a laptop, I have an iPod, I pretty much have music on hand 24/7.

I wish they had been upfront in their e-mail so I wouldn't have wasted time going back to the site only to learn that it wasn't as "advertised."

So yawn. Wake me when Beta 3.0 is up.