Comments on: Yahoo Releases Browser Based MP3 Player

By: TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Yahoo! rumoured to be buying FoxyTunes

TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Yahoo! rumoured to be buying FoxyTunes — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:51:10 +0000

[…] towards shaking things up in music and last week launched a new, stripped down, easy-to-use web based MP3 player, which could well be integrated with a browser based player like Foxy Tunes. Both […]

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:53:22 +0000

I have to try this. If it works as I think it does it will allow me to create a music/advertising system that I have had on the back burner for almost a year.

I can’t believe some people are so thick as to not realize that if this works it removes the required connection between player and mp3 file names or lists. Users can enter in files, or make selections, or even specify local files if they want to.

Sure, it’s not exactly rocket science, but for me at least it provides some answers on a platter that I was looking for, and for free. Uh, it is free right…?

By: WILLIAM KHOE » Yahoo! Media Player mentioned in CNET, Wired and TechCrunch

WILLIAM KHOE » Yahoo! Media Player mentioned in CNET, Wired and TechCrunch — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:01:53 +0000

[…] members and last week it is finally released! Soon after, it got featured on CNET, Wired and TechCrunch!It’s really exciting to see a product you had a hand on being used by other people out […]

By: myplaylist.biz

myplaylist.biz — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:47:08 +0000

Hehe, Nice one Lucas, I got a cult following brewing up with myplaylist…

http://mmadrigal.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1989B873A580CA12!48622.entry?

cool ha..

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:25:19 +0000

Jason Sperske : You are correct. The player uses Flash for mp3 playback if it is available. If not, it silently falls back to other technologies, like Windows Media Player or Quick Time, depending on the platform. So Flash is not really required, but it is utilized if available.

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:39:29 +0000

boring in my opinion. To see something much more exciting with regards to music on the web check out the future iTunes sharing products like mojo. Unless yahoo can somehow aggregate all this music without catching the attention or ire of the riaa this won’t be used much.

By: horisly

horisly — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:11:06 +0000

nice tools. need not to install a mp3 player anymore.

By: uncle floyd

uncle floyd — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:51:29 +0000

guys: how is this anything more than a skin for the already free and easy to use XSPF player?

Actually if this is anything it’s like delicious tag player (also owned + run by yahoo… I hope they don’t sink it as I love the non-intrusive, small foot print) w/ a bigger footprint and more buttons.

If your site runs wordpress there are also tons of plugins that do the same thing.

By: Thejesh GN

Thejesh GN — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:39:32 +0000

I use XSPF player from http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/ its simple and clean. But the UI of Y is eye candy.

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By: iHero

iHero — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:03:52 +0000

What ???? No MC Hammer in your playlist?

By: munna

munna — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:49:05 +0000

I can’t see any player in this website and how to i download this player into my pc

By: tornvald

tornvald — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:16:07 +0000

All right “Linux browser support next rev.” says http://yahoomediaplayer.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page … I guess I’ll have to wait …

By: tornvald

tornvald — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:49:28 +0000

I don’t see any player on the webpages on which it’s supposed to be installed … is it me or this release is buggy ?

By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:22:26 +0000

Deerhoof. Good choice.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:20:36 +0000

Yes, it’s a Flash player — cannot imagine what if it was a Java Applet!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:20:22 +0000

Yahoo lost the game years ago…Answers was their only real winner in the last decade…

By: Jason Sperske

Jason Sperske — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:37:39 +0000

And a quick check with Firebug confirms it. It is loading a SWF file called FlashSound from a Yahoo server to handle the playing of the MP3 file. This is kind of a salvaging of WebJay (which I think always bothered web masters because of how it stole bandwidth from web sites that linked to MP3s without directing any traffic). Of course here you would need the webmaster’s permission (they need to include the embed code) and it also couldn’t work with any site that required authentication (as the Flash file cannot see the same container page that the user sees because it cannot see your cookies)

By: Jason Sperske

Jason Sperske — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:26:07 +0000

I don’t want to sound like a total idiot, but I’m pretty sure that even though the Yahoo Widget is invoked by JavaScript it is still calling on a Flash Player to actually do the playing, and hence requires Flash to be installed. Also music stored on S3, or Facebook (Flickr can only have sheet music) still needs a player of some sort to actualy produce audio. Facebook is mokly likly going to use Flash for that one (though technically Java Applets are an option) while S3 (being just a simple storage service) will need you to have some local player like QuickTime to do the playing.

By: Sol Young

Sol Young — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:12:20 +0000

C’mon folks, it’s not about bringing people to your site to play music (that Yahoo! is after), it’s about providing a single site for you to visit to consume your music that you got elsewhere. You can consume it from anywhere (remember Yahoo! Pipes?)

If you don’t need a flash plugin, can play music stored on S3, Flickr, Facebook, etc, you’re set… No need for a music player.

Quite a product for mobile music consumption… Assuming this runs in Safari on iPhone, a browser on Android, and other coming mobile browsers running on always-on net connections…

By: BillyWarhol

BillyWarhol — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:31:53 +0000

bout Time Yahoo got with the program*

beyond all belief*

Flickr has needed Tunez for Years!!

+ they just sit while Web2.0 passes them by + all these lameass Clowns like
MySpace + Facebook get valued fer Billions for Crap Social Networks*

Bloody Joke*

;))

By: Vikram

Vikram — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:23:54 +0000

By: The Fake Angela Hayden

The Fake Angela Hayden — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:58:31 +0000

@3: You’re an idiot. You do realize that Yahoo! Music Unlimited is a big player in that space, right? Oh, no, wait, you don’t - because you’re an idiot.

Best,
The Fake Angela Hayden
SMACKDOWN GODDESS

By: Voices.com

Voices.com — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:49:19 +0000

Looks like another widget with little purpose. If it’s customizable and brandable, then I might be interested.

By: Planet Malaysia

Planet Malaysia — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:49:13 +0000

The display suck! Very ugly!