snarlydwarf;496057 Wrote: > 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. > Well, they don't really HOST it, they play it... The difference here is the whole idea of the thing. Last.fm still acts a bit like a radio. They stream things to you. On MySpace, you've got the musicians' home page and they present their music. You have to explore yourself but then you don't have to care about things like rights deals. > > 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. > They'd obviously have to. I know they have a back-end API, no idea whether you could use that for playback, too. > > And cooperation from the sites. > No. They do have APIs > > 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. >
Well, as I said: it's not about streaming. I've got some idea about how this could be done with twitter, maybe I try it out in iPeng... -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 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
