Blip.fm partners hits speedbumps, partners with imeem

Blip.fm is sort of like Twitter for music. Instead of telling people what you're doing or thinking about in 140 characters or less, you can tell your contacts what you're listening to. Oh yeah, the site also features an integrated music search engine and media player that lets you find and listen to the songs you're talking about or listen to your friends' playlists.

In other words, like 90% of the other web based music startups (that's a totally made up figure, by the way), Blip.fm was kind of lawsuit-bait. So it shouldn't be surprising to see that the company has made a few changes, including a partnership with music social netowrking site imeem.

Starting this week, all music available through Blip.fm is actually streaming from imeem. And that means you only get access to free and legal music. Unless you're outside of the US, in which case you probably won't be able to stream songs at all. International users can still let people know what they're listening to via short messages, but they won't be able to use Blip.fm as a music player.

It also means that old blips will be replaced with content available from imeem where possible. But if you were sharing links to music from artists that aren't in the imeem catalog, those blips will stop working.

Blip.fm is working on additional partnerships, so the media catalog could grow in time, and there may be hope for international users. But for now, it sounds like Blip.fm is going through a pretty rocky period.

[via Techcrunch]

Tags: blip.fm, imeem, music