April 14th 2007

(0) Blogmusik - Music on Demand

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Yesterday, a friend pointed me to Blogmusik and I’m glad he did. The new look version officially launched on the 9th of April, Blogmusik is a free and on demand music player already with a huge following and even more planned upgrades. Unlike Pandora which provides you with music recommended to you via the types of music you like, Blogmusik is a straight forward search and play service.

Blogmusik UI

Although the functionality of the service is some what limited at the moment, the dream is there with custom playlists, the ability to upload your own songs and even more in the pipeline. If the ability to add songs or albums to playlists is there, I can’t find it and it may be due to the rather unintuitive user interface on some points.

The song database is actually quite varied. From ‘Beautiful World’ by Colin Hay to Counting Crow’s cover of ‘Big Yellow Taxi’. There’s some recent artists such as Mika and Fall Out Boy as well as some golden oldies like Elvis and Lulu.

Album Details on Blogmusik

The site’s legal stance basically allows them to escape any blame if organisations such as the RIAA, BPI or IFPI came a knocking on their door. All the blame is placed on the user - you and me. I’m not going to go into the legality of the service - you can make your own mind up whether or not you want to use it. But, it’s a nice ‘jukebox’ service and helped me dig up some songs I’d long forgotten but wanted to hear again.

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