The more that music moves online and is consumed in streams from multiple sites, the harder it is to keep track of what you listen to across the Web. A startup from Amsterdam called Twones is trying to make sense of all the noise. It acts as a social music feed of everything you and your friends are listening to, as well as a library of your favorite songs. It is in private beta, but the first 500 TechCrunch readers to enter the code “tc_inv08″ here will get an invite.
The first thing you do when you sign up for Twones is install a Firefox add-on that keeps track of every song you play across 20 music sites and services, including youtube, myspace, imeem, last.fm, iLike, hype machine, mixwit, seeqpod, skreemr, and deezer. On Macs, it also records what you play on iTunes.
Every song you listen to then is displayed in your personal music feed. As you add friends, you can see what they are listening to as well. And for each song, you can add a comment, recommend it, or put it in your library. When you click on an individual song ling, you get taken to a dedicated page for that song with a YouTube video, Flickr photos, Twitter mentions, a list of similar artists from Last.fm, links to albums from that artist on Amazon, and a list of all your Twones friends who have listened to that song.
The only thing that Twones is missing is the music. Other than embedded YouTube videos, to actually play a song you have to click through to the original music service where it was streamed from in the first place. Twones is more about trying to capture the musical meta-data of the Web, socializing around music, and organizing it. The service would be a lot more compelling if you could also play songs without clicking away, and create playlists, etc.
It is a lot easier to get excited about music if you can hear it. If they can figure out how to embed more music directly in the site, Twones could be a hit.
Twones Video Demo from Twones on Vimeo.
Give me that invitation!
Doesn’t work with Safari. Works with Flock though.
yes, firefox is the best, IE “ok’, no safari yet..
continuous play / streams are in the process…
Invite please!
They could potentially build off of skreemr’s API to integrate tunes… and gruvr’s API to tie in tour maps with just a few LOC
No Safari support? FAIL.
time…..
@people above me, RTFA. Invite is there.
Seems pretty sweet, but I’m sure it’d be cooler with either social integration (FB Connect?) or more friends on the site.
Could I get and invite please?
Hay Guise!!!! What does the article say????>
please, please.
check out dtunes, qik. these are revolutionary!
Invitation Please
Definite FAIL with the failure to support safari…move on people, nothing to see here
The people asking for invites don’t deserve any.
You guys aren’t even reading the post. Go away.
Very nice most social network sites are offer music on thier network. On my website I have Napster for a free trial for anyone to use. Very nice to use to recieve music. Just click on my name to see.
Too late, I’ve already fallen in love with lala.com thanks to you guys…
http://www.tech...-digital-music/
Safari zealots deserve their fate.
It’s like people who love Tab.
There is no way I’m exposing my secret fondness for Enya to my friends. The jokes will never end!
I would love an invite!
epic fail – overexcited skim reading FTL.
interesting
the code still working “tc_inv08″
http://www.iamlittle.net
I think the codes are long run out! there are some available at http://thenextweb.com
STOP asking for invites! READ
twones is cool!
No Opera support either.
Guess it makes sense considering I’d have to install something, but it still makes me sad.
Long sign up process, but very cool concept. I’m surprised we haven’t seen a feed / river based music discovery service yet (or at least I haven’t). I agree with Erick that the ability to play tracks inline would be cool. This is what iLike should have been.
let me in!
like the idea, it would be great if it was integrated into Blip.FM
Give me that invitation
Thanks for the beta invites! Just hopped in and will be checking it out soon!
I’d like to be invited
The funny thing is that the first site I go to when I want to check out a song is YouTube. Twones allowes me to track these tracks as well. This is more “discovery based”: when I listen music for the first few times, it’s always online. It’s where LastFM is missing the boat.
You have to remember that Twones is still in private beta, so support for other browsers (like Safari) and other online platforms will be added on a regular basis!
(Disclosure: I share offices and drink beers with the Twones guys.)
How’s this better than Hype Machine?
http://hypem.com
Reminds me of http://thefeelgood.com/explore on steriods
TC run out of invites, we still have some over at The Next Web.
http://thenextw...-consume-music/
I’m already in love with maestro.fm which works perfectly with my Mac
http://www.kill...hare-your-music
I love how the idea now is to piggyback last.fm’s website statistics instead of reading it off of your media player.
Looks very nice, great idea! Been waiting for an invite for over a month now, so..finally
Can I have one of those invitations?
loving it more and more!
Sounds like uPlayMe but with less features…
Funny, I’ve been using a site called uplayme.com for months now, it does all the stuff Twones claims to do AND it works with Safari. Haha.
Just download the little plug-in from their website and you’ll create an online profile that gets updated with all your music and video plays. Simple.
And they’re out of beta, so anyone can get a free profile and download. Enjoy.
I think its a good idea to keep the service as basic as possible without all that music service, youtube embed videos, playlist, etc.
In the time that almost every website by some ”law” has to have a audio&video player/content otherwise it wont be a ‘hit’ it’s good to see that some try to keep it simple..