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November 9, 2006

iLike Adds Music Videos From YouTube

Michael Arrington

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There’s lots of buzz about newcomer social music site iLike (a Garageband service) this week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. We originally covered them in late October - download the iLike iTunes sidebar and see music related to what you listen to, along with recommendations of indie music that you might like, and tons of stats on the music you and your friends listen to on the site. You can also create playlists on the fly, and there are a lot of other features I’m still discovering.

Some people are calling iLike a second generation Last.fm, another company we’ve been tracking for some time.

Earlier this week iLike quietly added YouTube music videos to the site. Every song on iLike includes a link to play a short sample of the actual song. Now there is also a link to “play video.” Click the link and iLike searches for the video on YouTube, embeds it into the site and begins playing it. In our tests iLike found the correct music video about 2/3 of the time.

Like Gotuit, iLike is now also a great service for finding and viewing music videos.

By the way, if you’d like to download a YouTube video to you hard drive, use our handy YouTube Video Download Tool. More on this, and tips on converting it to iPod format, in a later post.

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  1. Philip Roy

    November 9th, 2006 at 3:24 am

    A great freeware Mac app that converts YouTube into mp4 and puts it straight into iTunes…
    http://djodjodesign.free.fr/

  2. Paul

    November 9th, 2006 at 5:08 am

    I wonder f iLike has made an arrangement with YouTube. Their usage of YouTube videos seems to violate the YouTube terms of service:

    YouTube provides an “Embeddable Player” feature, which you may incorporate into your own personal, non-commercial websites for use in accessing the materials on the Website, provided that you include a prominent link back to the YouTube website on the pages containing the Embeddable Player.

    IANAL but it would seem to me that iLike’s site is a commercial website (presumably they are making money - perhaps via iTunes/Amazon referrals) which would violate the non-commerial TOS (nevermind that they don’t have the prominent link back to YouTube). So perhaps they have a commercial arrangement with YouTube - or perhaps they are just hoping to fly under YouTube’s radar.

  3. MySchizoBuddy

    November 9th, 2006 at 5:26 am

    iLife is what Last.fm should have been

  4. flyintiger

    November 9th, 2006 at 5:26 am

    u-lik.com (you like not iLike) :-) is already providing a You Tube mashup for blogs with songs recommandations also streamed on the widget. You can check the widget on the following blogs : http://www.leafar.com, http://www.elrude.com or http://www.flyintiger.com

  5. Free Web Meeting

    November 9th, 2006 at 7:58 am

    This will be a win-win situation for youtube and itune users as well..this is great…

  6. Vasto

    December 1st, 2006 at 10:45 pm

    iTube is a great tool for Windows users to download YouTube videos, convert them for iPod use, and add them into your iTunes library in one click.

    http://www.benjaminstrahs.com/itube.php

  7. tattoo

    February 16th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    Design ist nett. Gut gemacht:)

  8. fiorentina

    February 16th, 2007 at 5:01 pm

    L’information interessante que vous avez! I’am allant revenir bientot.

  9. yahoo

    February 26th, 2007 at 6:41 am

    luogo fine, sapete..

  10. loghi

    February 26th, 2007 at 7:07 am

    Luogo grande! Grande giusto! I miei riguardi migliori al proprietario:)

  11. erotico

    February 26th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

    um… buoni, realmente buoni luogo e molto utile;)

  12. gianna

    February 26th, 2007 at 8:47 pm

    Great site! Good luck to it’s owner!

  13. grosso

    February 26th, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    Stupore! ho una sensibilità molto buona circa il vostro luogo!!!!

  14. zucchero

    February 26th, 2007 at 10:33 pm

    Interessare, molto interessante. Come avete fatto questo?

  15. prosciutto

    February 27th, 2007 at 5:40 am

    Ich fand gute und wichtige Informationen - dir zu danken.

  16. gelato

    February 27th, 2007 at 6:55 am

    Du musst ein Fachmann sein - wirklich guter Aufstellungsort, den du hast!

  17. Rootoo

    February 27th, 2007 at 7:59 am

    The video component of iLike is cool, but their social networking and music don’t work for me. Goombah, a similar service, connect you with the top 20 people and they are amazing matches. You can see their entire libraries and what they have added and adjust your recommendations based on your ‘adventure’ setting. New free tracks every Friday - alternative but other genres too.

  18. sardinia

    February 27th, 2007 at 12:43 pm

    pagine piuttosto informative, piacevoli =)

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