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Muziic media player streams audio from YouTube - for now
But here's what sets Muziic apart from the crowd: The music isn't stored on your computer. The application's music library comes from YouTube. In fact, there's a tiny little video window that plays the music videos that go along with each song. You can click that window to open up the video in a larger window.
The developer behind Muziic says that since the audio is all coming from YouTube, where it's available to stream for free, that the program is free and legal. But that doesn't mean it's not a violation of YouTube's terms of service. The company pays music studios a royalty for the rights to stream music. And Muziic lets you listen to that music without being exposed to the ads on YouTube.com.
So it's probably just a matter of time before Google attempts to shut Muziic down... or maybe the company will attempt to purchase the application and keep it alive as an ad-supported utility.
[via ReadWriteWeb and CNet]
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Subscribe to commentsEvenioMar 9th 2009 2:20PM
Shutdown in 5...4...3...
cantstraferightMar 9th 2009 1:37PM
but are the adds not now build into the flash videos so you would still see them and how is this site any different than embedding one of those videos on your own site?
JeffMar 9th 2009 3:12PM
Try http://www.lastvid.com for a very similar concept that is web based. It uses music recommendations from last.fm to help you discover new music as well.
gonintendoMar 9th 2009 5:23PM
Yuck, crappy low quality youtube music.
TeilluMar 10th 2009 6:08PM
Didn't Songza did the same...?
ryzza007Mar 11th 2009 8:58PM
Putting ads in a music player... don't we have our media players minimized as small as possible when playing music anyway? It's normally a background thing - nowhere to show ads. Maybe it can stay free if you agree to them sending you spam emails once a week containing the ads. :o)
Bad idea