The Music Industry’s Going to Love This: Desktop Client for SeeqPod Released
Mark Hendrickson
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A new desktop application called Songbeat has been released that allows you to search the web for MP3s using Seeqpod technology, stream those MP3s, and even download them.
Seeqpod, which we covered alongside Skreemr and Songza, is a search engine for MP3s that are hosted across on the internet. Whereas with Skreemr, you can actually click on a link to download a track, SeeqPod only displays a non-clickable URL to the file so it’s not easy to download several songs. Therefore, Songbeat makes it easier than SeeqPod to proactively collect copies of MP3s from across the web.
The client is currently only available for Windows, although a Mac version is purportedly coming soon. Two versions of the Windows client are available: a free, ad-supported version and a “pro” version for 10€ per year that gets rid of ads and allows unlimited downloads.
Songbeat says explicitly on its website that it “assumes no responsibility for any copyright infringements or legal issues” and insists that you “make sure that you have the right to download the music you have chosen.” Yea, that’s going to happen.
Also check out Freemusiczilla, which makes it possible to download tracks from any streaming site, including SeeqPod.
This is legal how?
They aren’t hosting anything, this is illegal how?
The RIAA sued me for 4 years over the same type of thing. Contributory copyright infringement. They didn’t get anywhere.
Link to songbeat is for some spam-landing page?
Jon - my bad, fixed.
Maybe the RIAA will now find the best tool ever to start sending cease & desist letters to all the sites that host the music seeqpod finds.
I tried seeqpod and the quality of music most of the time sucks.
This is just another thorn on the RIAA’s wounded feet, eventually they’ll understand ad sponsored music is the way to go, if it works for radio, it should work even better for on demand content, since people will most of the times know what they like to hear.
Awesome thanks!
wow. nice.
http://next.yahoo.net/archives.....xperiences
check out Yahoo’s Blog Remix app. Allows you to read music blogs, play media, save items, and share what you’ve found.
also takes advantage of the hAudio format.
oh, and it’s cross platform written in Adobe AIR.
The search result in skreemr is not 100% accurate all the time. Sometimes its very difficult to download songs from this site. So i recommand http://www.woonz.com for searching and downloading song. It’s a complete mp3 search engine. user can listen to online or can download from this site. it’s really amazing. U guyz can give a look in to it. U will love it! woonz.com rocks!