Rainwave: streaming video game music has just gotten better

I missed giving Rainwave some much-needed attention in the past couple of months, which is an especially grievous crime given the fact that so much has happened to the service recently.

What is Rainwave? It’s a service that streams music via an ogg vorbis stream from seven generations’ worth of excellent video games. Not only that, but the website is a slick presentation of style and functionality. Create an account and you can interact with the sites fellow users. For instance, during each song, three choices are displayed for the next song. Each member can vote on their favorite, and the song with the most votes gets played. You can also request playtime for your favorite song from Rainwave’s extensive collection of video game music. It’s an amazing system that works perfectly and provides great music and ample entertainment.

I first mentioned Rainwave back in June of last year, just after it was launched. Since then, the site’s creator, Robert McAuley, has acquired popular streaming video game music site Ormgas. Ormgas was a site that streamed music from the enormous (and growing) library of video game remixes hosted at Overclocked Remix. Now, all of that music has been transferred to Rainwave and has been available for your listening pleasure since the end of June.

Due to the fairly drastic difference between the two libraries of music, they are available under separate streams.