THE MUZIK-ZONE
A Look At The Online Music Outlets - BandMix
Ease of use: - Features:

BandMix.com is more of a place for musicians to find bands, band members, etc. in their own area than it is a music listening website. Still, it can be an excellent place for networking among musicians, songwriters, and publishers. You can see our page here.

Accounts are free but you can get an updated account for an additional $9.95/month (with discounts if you pay for longer periods of time up front).

You can do a Zip Code search for contacts within your own Zip Code, or you can specifically exclude your Zip Code. The choice is yours and the contact names show up on your home page. Yu can put a checkmark in a box for finding certain types of musicians (strangely, songwriters are not a choice).

PROS:
You can upload audios, videos and photos. Re-arranging the order of your tracks or videos is very easy. You can create a "gig calendar" quite easily, too. Overall, the site is very user-friendly.

They also have a musicians "Want Ad" section which is a feature I've not seen elsewhere.

They also have (under MUSIC INDUSTRY - see bottom of page) lists of labels, promoters, places you can get rehearsal space, independent labels, management, lighting, recording studios, and sound engineering services.

They have a forum and a FAQs section, which many such sites lack.

CONS:
You have very limited upload space - 15Mb. It costs $9.95 to get 25Mb, which still isn't a lot. They also say Premier membership gets you 150Mb space, so I don't know how to explain the discrepancy.

They don't have embeddable playlists, but that's because this is a site for musicians, not listeners. I haven't created a listener account yet, so I can't comment on that until I do.

RECOMMENDATIONS:
You should create both a listener account and a musician account (probably need different e-mail addresses). Be very selective about what you upload (because of the limited space available).

Be careful to check out anyone under the MUSIC INDUSTRY lists before you sign an agreement with them. Neither BandMix nor Muzik-Zone can vouch for anyone - and there are a lot of scams out there in the music business, as you probably already know.