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Remember the old Napster? One of the best things about the original Napster was that you could browse someone else's music collection and sample music. If you found someone that had lots of music that you liked, you could explore their collection and find music that you hadn't heard before. It was a great way to find new music.

The music search company Mercora is trying to bring this type of social exploring back again. With Mercora you can browse and listen to your friend's music, and your friends can listen to your music too. Of course to avoid the copyright police they limit this: you can't copy your friends music and only 5 people can be listening to one person's music at a time.

Mercora is all about discovering music ... there's lots more to Mercora than just peeking in on your friends music ... worth checking out (Windows only for now ...)