pippin;496056 Wrote: > Hm. Last.fm is not about hosting new music, which MySpace is. And > YouTube. They would be needed from a playback perspective.
Last.fm hosts tons of new music... they used to be mostly indies, until they started getting the major labels to add support. That's part of how they got such a good deal on their licensing: "well the indies let us play music for virtually nothing.." and the majors bit and cut them a great royalty deal. > > MySpace is still (although losing a bit of weight) pretty big as a > marketing tool for new bands, this would be a big win for SB if it > doesn't want to grow into an old image. > They would need to provide some sort of API to stream 'music I might like' though. As far as I can tell, they don't. > > Facebook and Twitter may not do a lot of music on their platforms but > they are used to communicate a lot of links. What would be cool would be > an easy way to import these links while also being able to play the > stuff. THIS is the real challenge: being able to play some stuff that's > being presented through a link or a flash plugin, requires some > intelligence on the client side. And cooperation from the sites. Emusic also has some streaming services http://www.emusic.com/toolbar/download.html .. they used to be almost exclusively indies, but now have a some major catalogs. But not a lot of social to it. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
