Seattle based iLike just expanded their recent streaming music deal with Rhapsody to allow any website or web application to add streaming music to their sites. Integration is dead simple (I’ve done it below). A long list of partners launches with them, including Google, Evite, TypePad, SGN, Flixster, Watercooler, Connected Weddings, Slide and Mesmo TV.
The big hook here is that it’s dead simple for developers to add simple playlists to their apps. The music is served up via straight HTML and Javascript, not the usual Flash widgets. Listeners can create, edit and listen to playlists without any registration with iLike. The only limitations are those imposed by Rhapsody, which limit any individual to just 25 song listens per month. After that, they have to pay for a $13/month account.
If you want to add music to your site or application, more information is here.
Test It Out, Right Here, Right Now:
Here’s an embedded playlist with editing and add songs turned on. Have fun adding, removing and reordering the songs (but the Beastie Boys songs stay):
The screenshot below shows a compelling integration with movie social network Flixster - a site page for the movie Pulp Fiction that also has the soundtrack for the film:
sample playlist isnt working…. says “Loading”
working on it. stand by.
ok, we have a big FAIL on the embed. Probably a Wordpress compatibility issue. contacting iLike.
working now
yeah, it settled down. good.
looks good and better its works!
Nice, that’s a great tool. Also, I feel the same. There should be some kind of integration with the movie site flixster, because it makes more sense to have all entertainment in one place .. Some sites like http://www.cruxle.com aims at that, not sure if they would succeed, but it definitely seems like a winner to me. Write here if you find any other sites that are like Cruxle (www.cruxle.com)
25 listens per month is kind of rough… but it’s a cool idea anyway.
Who proofreads your articles? “Integration is deal simple”. Come on Mike…. that is some 3rd grade grammar that that Duncan would write.
Nice grammar yourself there Bill E! Hats off to the iLike team! You guys pull one rabbit out of the hat after another…
25 listens per month? Hmm.. You could do something similar to this with the new Radio OneLlama service being rolled out shortly (closed beta).
Michael,
The post on Mobilize conference said I am one of 5 winners for free tickets to mobilize conference.Conference is coming up on thursday and I didn’t get any email or any information.Cameron declared me as winner. IS there any procedure for claiming for the ticket for the conference.
Thanks
vidya
How does it limit an individual to 25 song listens a month? I didn’t log in anywhere and I can change my IP address and clear my cookie cache at any time.
Interesting. You can grab the mp3s from cache but they are only 64kbps which sucks. I wonder if they are somehow upconverted in the embedded player because when I listen on your site they sound much better than 64kbps.
I prefer in.com to ilike because it plays music suited to my taste
Hmm, I wonder if any of those songs have the F word in the title, let’s see…
Oh! here’s one… Let’s stick it right at the top there.
Gotta love that embedded UGC.
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all your comments are lame and elitist. This is simple, fun, and practical
thanks for removing the beastie boys songs. losers.
Song nr 2, Fuck her gently. Techcrunch material right there..
If I don’t autheticate to listen, then how can they limit my monthly playbacks. I understand maybe per session or per IP address but what if I use another computer.
Can I hear the full song?
working on it. stand by.
that is very good feature, traffic on site, nice design and good pagerank, we would love to join.
http://www.hiadults.com will be launching music feature soon
I wonder if they will launch an affiliate program for those who wanna make money online promoting them, cause I can make a killing off of that just by promoting it to MySpace users.
If they do launch an affiliate program, do you know if it’ll be with Commission Junction, LinkShare , or who Mike?
I just played a song and it cut it off half way through playing…. I”m confused? Does it always do that? IF it does it more than 5% of the time I’ll never touch this, at least not to actually listen to music.
Are you kidding me? Rhapsody is only streaming 64 kbps MP3?! Oh my ears! What year is this? I can understand Rhapsody wanting to keep streaming costs down, even though they’ll charge you over $100 a year to stream to you. But why not stream in 64 kbps HE-AAC instead if the platform can support it? It sounds way better than MP3 at these lower bit rates.
I have no problem with services sticking with MP3 if they are using higher bit rates (like 192 kbps and greater). But if you’re going to go low-bit rate, please don’t use MP3. It sounds like crap and there are much better codecs/formats out there that can deliver much better audio quality using the same number of bits.
It’s a beautiful, but I am already hungering for improvements.
1) Archived playlists (preferably with a lock that prevents further editing).
2) Pop-out feature for stand-alone playback (preferably with site branding). I want to listen to TC’s soundtrack, for example, but I don’t want to stay on this post for the next two hours.
more stupid “i” trends/fad
Doesn’t imeem already do alot of this, with unlimited playback. Full disclosure, I consult with imeem, but have only started recently so am fully interested in the real answer here.
Imeems API is stricly for apps on Imeem. This API seems to be open to any website. Real shame that, maybe you can get them to open it up Jonathan Heit.
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