I’m a Web fanatic, I admit. But you probably already knew that… My work environment has been completely web based for years now. The same applies to my music. Like many people, I used to download music from Kazaa or eMule (Yeah, I know some of you still do). Most of the time now, I listen to music on the web and don’t have any need to download it. My laptop benefits the most from this inclination since it’s not weighed down by music files, thus saving me tons of space and virus headaches (you eMule users know what I’m talking about). Anyhow, if I do choose to download music, I can always do it over at iTunes or my favorite place in the web: Jamendo.
Music plays a large role in our lives. Since the web now plays an even bigger part, combining the two together has become unavoidable. The greatest thing about this powerful duo is that you don’t need to spend a lot of time searching for music you like — just use this nifty guide list and you’ll find just about everything you need to enjoy hours of good music. The sound quality changes from service to service, but overall, it’s good enough for regular web usage. → Read More
Israeli startup Jogli, the music search engine we previously covered, is now making all of the 12M albums it streams easily embeddable, even on MySpace (example).
Beyond albums, the widget (embedded at the end of the post) also allows the embedding of playlists, artists’ best hits and radio stations. It’s color customizable (think YouTube’s player) and if you want to play with the embed parameters, its size can also be altered. Jogli makes heavy use of YouTube’s API to power its service.
I asked the for company’s perspective about all that has gone about lately with Project Playlist getting banned (here and here) and Warner pulling out of YouTube. → Read More
Meet Jogli, a music search engine that claims to offer immediate listening access to 500M songs and 12M albums. It would be valid to argue that there can’t possibly be more room for yet another music destination. However, having spent the past few days using Jogli, I have to conclude that it strikes me as having the potential to shake-up competitors including Songza, MeeMix, Deezer, SeeqPod, and a number of others. Jogli crawls the web for music and music clips and then indexes them for search (the majority of songs come from YouTube, but the site will crawl other services). Jogli then lets users listen to the music it has discovered through a player integrated directly within the Web interface. Sure, “search, click & play” is nothing new, but applying it on 500M songs is a significant feat. From my personal testing Jogli provides effective music search for artists, songs, whole albums, and clips. I easily found every non-mainstream artist or song I searched for—examples: The song ‘Thin Line’ by Jurassic 5 featuring Nelly Furtado, and Nick Cave’s album ‘Let Love In’. The trend of piggy-backing YouTube via its API is changing the rules of the game for music services. Remember, Internet radio services like MeeMix and Last.fm have to pay royalties, while Jogli pays none. They don’t even pay streaming or storage costs—YouTube (meaning Google) foots the bills. Of course, this trend may not last long if YouTube starts cracking down on these music videos. Jogli is in Beta so it’s far from perfect. Community and discovery features, for example, are practically non-existent. However, an inventory of 500M songs is surely enough to get Jogli foot in the door. CrunchBase Information Jogli Information provided by CrunchBase → Read More
