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April 11, 2006

TuneFeed Music Widget for Blogs

Michael Arrington

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Tunefeed, a new service from Faces.com that will be launching soon, will allow people to upload music to a locker and then put a Flash widget on a website to allow visitors to play the music. MySpace has a limited way of doing this already, and TagWorld has a very robust service. But for those of us with normal blogs, Tunefeed could be a fun way to share music. I’m looking forward to testing this out on TechCrunch.

Sign up for the beta on the Tunefeed home page. You can also see an example of the widget there. Another cool company from Australia.

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  1. Stefan Constantinescu

    April 11th, 2006 at 4:01 pm

    I can see this being taken down rather quickly since it’s easy to rip flash files and get access to their contents.

    That and people are going to want to share copywritten material.

    Nice concept, a youtube of audio, but the jury is out on this one.

  2. Michael Arrington

    April 11th, 2006 at 4:03 pm

    Stefan, its easy to steal music from any streaming source, so I don’t agree. I also assume the stream rate won’t be very good, so it won’t be attractive for people to grab the files.

  3. Derek Gathright

    April 11th, 2006 at 4:11 pm

    For those with a little bit of web programming experience, there’s a much better way to accomplish the same thing. There’s a myriad of free flash mp3 players out there, here’s the link to the one I use.
    http://www.jeroenwijering.com/.....MP3_Player

    Sample application? Put it on your myspace profile or blog with the config & playlist XML files pulling from a seperate webserver that you have access to. Dump MP3 files in a directory and use PHP to generate the XML code or handcode it. Viola! Simple to manage MP3 jukebox. My link above is to my myspace page.

    But, if you don’t have the knowledge to do something like that (99% of web users), this service might be useful. Nice, but not very innovative though. It took me all of 30 minutes using open source apps to accomplish the same thing. Not bragging, I’m not that great of a programmer, that’s just how easy it was.

    Welcome to the web TuneFeed. =)

  4. Saul Weiner

    April 11th, 2006 at 4:13 pm

    The service seems to be running slowly. I’m having issues signing up.

    Michael, you are a one blog load testing machine :-)

  5. Ted

    April 11th, 2006 at 4:35 pm

    Can anyone (Esp. Mike) give some background on Faces.com? It’s new to me.

  6. web20guy

    April 11th, 2006 at 4:49 pm

    RIAA will soon make a lot of noise.

  7. cole

    April 11th, 2006 at 4:52 pm

    this seems to be similar to radioblogclub.com just with some more features.

    how is streaming music not illegal? it’s always easy to rip/record these streaming music

  8. DJ BurnEm

    April 11th, 2006 at 5:13 pm

    This is no YouTube, but it will be interesting to see how people use it. I can see it being used to host amature podcasts and garage band music. There will likely be restrictions on what content you can share and how much storage one is allotted.

  9. Gus Austin

    April 11th, 2006 at 5:23 pm

    As indie musician, music fan, and somebody whose been slowly building out my own little music community website, I feel it’s key to be able to share streaming music across networks, sites, and blogs. The internet should be an ideal platform for those who want to promote music. I can’t hear a band when I read a club listing or review. But if you go to the online versions of these sites, or really most places that dedicated to music (online zines/music communities, venue sites, event sites, etc.), you’re probably not going to hear music. While there are lots of mp3 blogs, cool indie zines, podcast sites, and myspace offshoots, you’re most likely going to have to spend lots of time sifting thru music you’ve never heard of to find something good. And if you’re into Jazz, Classical, etc.,…please let me know where the good sites are!

    Streaming, in the forseeable future, is going to be the only way you can legally mix the indie with the familiar - and while most of us have forgotten, there was a time when radio was actually informative and inspiring. I love hearing artists I respect spin and talk about artists who inspire them. I love to listen to DJs who can be funny, informative, and passionate about the music they play… Not much of that is happening, because there are too many legal/technological barriers, not many easy tools and solutions.

    So yeah, I can’t wait for this to be sorted out - there are quite a few musicians, fans, and former DJs here in LA (and anywhere) that can do a heck of a lot better promoting music than the big boys!

    If you enjoyed this rant, I encourage you to visit a similar post I recently left on a new music site called Project Opus - It looks like they’re on the path to resolving many of the issues I’m ranting about:
    http://www.projectopus.com/node/2698#comment-490

  10. Jonathan

    April 11th, 2006 at 7:32 pm

    Faces.com has been around for a few years, mostly focused on the photo space and tinkering with a few other bits of personal digital content. It has around 100K registered users. Organic growth has been very slow due to some UI issues and difficulty in sharing the owners stuff. We’re working on that now.

    Tunefeed is 100% DMCA compliant, so I don’t expect to have any problems streaming most forms of music content from our servers.

    Whilst we can only aspire to youtube growth and appeal I will point out that with video there are very few legitimate ways to ensure copyright owners are compensated for their video being played - the same is not true for music.

  11. Paul Montgomery

    April 11th, 2006 at 9:53 pm

    Is that THE Jonathan Atherton, star of stage and screen?

  12. John Tubridy

    April 11th, 2006 at 10:28 pm

    I think the Grazr widget does something similar only its aimed more at podcasts?

  13. Terence

    April 11th, 2006 at 10:58 pm

    Does anyone know if there is a definitive law against sharing your private music collection via streaming?

  14. Warren

    April 12th, 2006 at 12:23 am

    Terence: note that Jonathan says TuneFeed will be 100% DMCA compliant. That means a deal has been made with the recording industry (royalties plus certain restrictions?) to stream their content, making it totally legit.

  15. rob finn

    April 12th, 2006 at 1:04 am

    Sideload.com is similar in locker functionality but does not provide tools to share on your blog.

  16. Rajesh

    April 12th, 2006 at 2:36 am

    Tunefeed is very much similar to

    http://www.radioblogclub.com

    that i’d incorporated in my blog

  17. Kashif Aziz

    April 12th, 2006 at 6:26 am

    @Derek: Thanks for the insight ;)

  18. Gerd Leonhard

    October 30th, 2006 at 3:41 pm

    Greetings, Sonific was referenced here before, so here is an update - we just launched a custom widget for Typepad bloggers - check out http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/06.....tml?.v=50.
    Next week we will be announcing some new catalogs, as well. Cheers, Gerd

  19. Jude

    December 15th, 2006 at 2:43 pm

    I was wondering how you actually steal music from MySpace, as my friend has just put their songs up there and are worrying about people stealing them.

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