Music on the radio is dead. I discover the majority of new music these days from one of two sources: friends or the internet. Music blogs are a great way to keep your finger on the pulse of what's hot in the music scene.

Peel is an app that gathers all the mp3s from your music blogs and presents them in an interface similar to iTunes.


The great part is that you can stream the songs to your computer before you download them. That way, you know you're getting a track you like before you add it to your collection. Also, downloading the song and importing it to iTunes is as simple as one click of the mouse. You can even configure it so the tracks you download are placed into playlists named after the blogs they come from.

Ever have a song in your music library that was better than "good" but not quite "great?" Now you can tweak your iTunes to give it the 3½ star rating that it deserves.

It's easy!

Step 1. Quit iTunes.
Step 2. Open up Terminal (Applications>Utilities>Terminal).
Step 3. Paste the following into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE

Step 4. Hit enter.
Step 5. Open up iTunes and you now have the ability to drag the rating to the spaces in between the normal stars.

I haven't tried this on a PC, but it's apparently possible there as well. Follow the source link below for a guide and leave your comments below if you get it to work.

(via Instructables)