tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post7562670221464857905..comments2011-09-21T11:50:29.653-05:00Jason Herskowitzhttps://profiles.google.com/102843030102775879058noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post-13263292000676168642011-09-21T11:50:29.653-05:002011-09-21T11:50:29.653-05:00Very interesting problem you address regarding the fragmentation of music services, and inability for users to share music like they are able to share content/other media: seamlessly, across all networks (even competing ones) and all channels<br /><br /> I&#39;ve experienced this problem myself in a different use case: I wanted to login to my Grooveshark account to play my music, and a friend beside me, who keeps her &quot;favorites&quot; on Rdio wanted to use Rdio. If we were using the same service, I could easily login to one account, search for her username, and play her list of favorites at the same time.<br /><br />I&#39;ve had a few thoughts recently, due to FB Music&#39;s announcement with its Spotify partnership and integration with other services as well.<br /><br /><b>1.</b>I don&#39;t regard Spotify as the &quot;end all, be all&quot; of music services. I do think that for a product as young as it is with the p2p streaming technology platform it has and its Open API, playlist collaboration and sharing, integration with last.fm and Facebook, makes it a contender. <br /><br /><b>2.</b>Layer Echonest on top of this, and you have a very passive, premium way to discover songs or users with similar tastes. Additionally, from my experience talking to music consumers, most said they to discover new music from people they don&#39;t know on the Internet, rather than from their close circle of friends. <br /><br /><b>3</b>Playdar is an added bonus for sure- is this the technology that the founder of last.fm created a while ago that never seemed to be marketable? I&#39;d like to see it finally launch<br /><br /><b>4</b>Back to Spotify/FB- I think the integration of the two platforms is like peanut butter and jelly. Music is not only social on steroids now, but its viral, it reaches 1/2 a billion users, not just 10 million, it rests on an echosysten of 3rd party application developers who will only enhance what you can do with the service, and Facebook provides an optimal discussion platform--a place where songs can be discussed in real-time while playing, they can be reviewed, etc..<br /><br /><b>5</b>Finally, although it&#39;s somewhat mysterious right now, Facebook clearly put time and energy into its platform for independent bands and musicians. Who knows what value this can add.<br /><br />All that aside, though<br />I really interested in hearing your opinion about where you see things going, given your experience and closeness to this industry. <br /><br />It seems unimaginable to me that Facebook could compete against apple in music- with its native handsets/ipods and mac integration <br /><br />While Facebook/Spotify&#39;s music app may have more distribution channels on handsets, couldn&#39;t Android and Apple iPhone partner with- and bundle-its music service with carrier billing?Katelyn Friedsonhttp://katelynfriedson.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post-66257211181995372942011-04-04T21:20:53.182-05:002011-04-04T21:20:53.182-05:00Gregg - <br /><br />Thanks for giving it a try. One of the major next tasks for the project will be moving over to using Phonon as the audio rendering engine and this will fix a large number of problems. Hope you give it a try again then.jherskowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15797190582674008000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post-26524849018337652522011-04-04T21:08:02.031-05:002011-04-04T21:08:02.031-05:00After reading your overview, I decided to give it a try. Most of my collection is local. I have all my CDs ripped to a media server on my network. A lot of my collection is ripped to WMA lossless, but in the last year, I switched to FLAC. Tomahawk locks up on half of the tracks I&#39;ve tried playing. All play fine with foobar2000. j. river media center and Windows Media Player. J.River Media Center has a much more sophisticated autoplaylist feature. So from what I can tell Tomahowk has a long way to go, but is pretty promising.Gregg Plummerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04797151841680024732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post-58228852674101531352011-03-29T06:35:53.160-05:002011-03-29T06:35:53.160-05:00Glad it helped. It also helps sharing tastes globally... since today there are very few services that are available in more than one country. One of my biggest frustrations is all the Spotify links I get from my friends in the UK - and they feel the same about all the Rdio links that us Americans post.jherskowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15797190582674008000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post-26731451830766860452011-03-29T01:41:35.601-05:002011-03-29T01:41:35.601-05:00Great overview post! I&#39;d been wondering how/if Tomahawk tied in with Playdar and what all the fuss is about - thanks for writing up a nice clear explanation of its advantages.Christopher Suttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104311207424830254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post-10556808208649629952011-03-29T00:12:32.343-05:002011-03-29T00:12:32.343-05:00How about terrestrial radio? Can I get that on Tomahawk?Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00097878173622170668noreply@blogger.com