CC Hits is a web-app to post and vote on Creative Commons Licensed music. The site just got started, so there’s not a lot of voting going on yet. However, if it takes off, this will definitely fill a void that’s missing on the internet. The site is a clone of the popular tech news site, digg.com, and allows all users to submit links to CC Licensed MP3s, and then the community will vote on them. There is a link at the top called, “Hits”, that displays all the top voted tracks. With the average so far being only about 5 – 10 votes. These numbers are sure to go up as more users find the site.
Each track is given room for the Artist, Album, Website, tags, and other tasty meta-data so that you know what it is, and where to go for more info, which makes it ideal as a promotion mechanism. It includes an in-page MP3 player so that you can listen to the tracks before voting on them. A registration with Ning.com is required to vote, as the site was built using their cloning technology, and user accounts are centralized across all the cloned sites built with Ning. It’s not as slick as digg, but it’s close enough.
We’ll be keeping an eye on this site, as it has the potential to blow up, but right now its filled with early adopters only.
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