Comments on: TuneFeed Music Widget for Blogs

By: Cheap Toys

Cheap Toys — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:53:47 +0000

im still looking for a widget that can just play any classical music there is….dont need to load any music or video which will slow down my blog…anybody got any ideas?

By: Jude

Jude — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:43:34 +0000

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.

By: Gerd Leonhard

Gerd Leonhard — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:41:32 +0000

Greetings, Sonific was referenced here before, so here is an update – we just launched a custom widget for Typepad bloggers – check out http://biz.yaho...m112.html?.v=50.
Next week we will be announcing some new catalogs, as well. Cheers, Gerd

By: Music website ideas | DropShipArea.com

Music website ideas | DropShipArea.com — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:06:23 +0000

[...] TuneFeed Music Widget for Blogs lalalalalala…Another Way to Steal Music [...]

By: Inside Yahoo! » Yahoo! in trouble with Webjay

Inside Yahoo! » Yahoo! in trouble with Webjay — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:40:01 +0000

[...] I think Yahoo! should have rather gone with TuneFeed, a service I recently discovered via TechCrunch as I was translating their article in French. TuneFeed is a service that let’s the users upload their music online and share them on their website/blog with a special widget. The site claims to be 100% legal. When I learned that Yahoo had acquired Webjay I was immediately thinking about a similar concept. So…will i share my music at 360 anytime soon? [...]

By: My World…by Joker » Technology Crunch update

My World…by Joker » Technology Crunch update — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:21:13 +0000

[...] There’s a new service called TuneFeed that will allow you to upload music to a locker then put a flash widget on a website so visitors can play the music. More on this story here on teh Crunch [...]

By: Kashif Aziz

Kashif Aziz — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:26:27 +0000

@Derek: Thanks for the insight

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:36:53 +0000

Tunefeed is very much similar to

http://www.radioblogclub.com

that i’d incorporated in my blog

By: rob finn

rob finn — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:04:02 +0000

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

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:23:35 +0000

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.

By: Terence

Terence — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:58:14 +0000

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

By: John Tubridy

John Tubridy — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:28:44 +0000

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

By: Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:53:56 +0000

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

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:32:51 +0000

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.

By: Gus Austin

Gus Austin — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:23:49 +0000

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.proj...698#comment-490

By: DJ BurnEm

DJ BurnEm — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:13:04 +0000

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.

By: cole

cole — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:52:26 +0000

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

By: web20guy

web20guy — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:49:09 +0000

RIAA will soon make a lot of noise.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:35:50 +0000

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

By: Saul Weiner

Saul Weiner — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:13:52 +0000

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

Michael, you are a one blog load testing machine

By: Derek Gathright

Derek Gathright — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:11:12 +0000

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.jero...lash_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. =)

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:03:14 +0000

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.

By: Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:01:00 +0000

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.