Today I came across a relatively new music-listening program. Its purpose isn’t to allow you to organize or play your mp3 collection or even to play particular groups or artists online. Instead, it picks music according to your MOOD.

It’s called Musicovery and is available for free (LoFi) or for about $2-3/month (HiFi). That’s really cheap for streaming audio. But you’re also losing much of the flexibility and customization that you may be used to having. Instead, you pick your mood along two spectra: Calm to Energetic and Dark to Positive. Alternatively, you can pick “Dance Mode” and use the two dimensions of danceable and tempo. You can select particular categories and time frames and even pick whether you want “Hits,” “Non-Hits,” or more obscure recordings (”Discovery” mode).

Another cool thing is that your songs are displayed visually along a path. You can’t fast-forward or rewind, but you can see the songs that are coming up and jump to one of them at any time. And if you click on an artist’s name, you’ll launch a “radio station” that plays music similar to what you’re hearing.

Since it’s a rather new program, they’re still making modifications and adding features, which is nice because there seems to be a lack of features and documentation. Still, it’s cool, different, and still being developed.

So the two most innovative features of this music player are the mood-based interface and the visual representation of the songs. If you’re into controlling exactly what you listen to, you won’t like this. But if you’re open to discovering new music and playing music to fit your mood, you’ll really want to give this a try.

Robin Good wrote an excellent and thorough review on his new media blog.

To get started, just visit Musicovery.com.