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It seems music-in-the-cloud is all the rage at the moment. I don't know why, considering almost everyone has at least a gigabyte of storage on their cellular phone nowadays. But it's not the cloud-surfing thing that has people excited about tunesBag, though. It's the social-networky-hacky-YouTube layer on top that's got everyone dribbling.
Once you upload your music, you can send links to friends. If they are allowed to stream that song (i.e. tunesBag has the licensing), they can listen to it -- the original file. If they don't have permission, tunesBag scrapes the soundtrack from YouTube, but doesn't show you the video or the ads. Sneaky sneaky!
You can't really see the service, as it is now, surviving very long -- especially now that the public beta is here. But you might as well make the most of it while you can.
[via TechCrunch]
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Subscribe to commentsnicktennearDec 24th 2009 9:38AM
It's a great idea but can you really see music execs thinking the same?
Sebastian AnthonyDec 24th 2009 9:39AM
I can see some angry music execs having to call into the office on Christmas Eve to get their lawyers moving...
chris josephDec 24th 2009 9:54AM
How is this not like the original implementation of muxtape.com, which was made to restructure by music industry lawyers?
How is this not like a personal version of what mp3.com tried to do, which was shut down by music industry lawyers?
How is this not like seeqpod, where people with their own music uploaded is searched through by the cloud, which was shut down by music industry lawyers?
I'm still waiting for blip.fm to get shut down by music industry lawyers.
commentator8Dec 24th 2009 5:14PM
Also for those interested are fruitunes and sad steve. I can't talk about their legality (either way) but as i understand it they just index files found on google.
Once upon a time they were loosely based of seeqpod or the like and had a truly great library (each slightly different at that). Now they are just a different front end with the same (halved) content. Fruitunes is probably the nicer...
In general there is always one or two of these around - when the one is shut down the next surfaces. What would be interesting (legal wise and not) would be a torrent streaming service (like many have tried) but music orientated.
I'd think that that would help ease bandwidth issues, possibly make the legal issue more ambiguous and open up a lot more files than are currently (easily) accessible to the net. Think its a possibility?
Sebastian AnthonyDec 24th 2009 6:05PM
Doesn't the latest utorrent do streaming video, as your episodes/movies download? Presume it could do audio too...
Thanks for the tip, on the two apps :)
techpopsDec 25th 2009 1:01AM
I give this one till the new year before it gets eaten alive by lawyers.
I'm not going to use it because its wrong. Think of the poor RIAA who have to travel the country away from their families so they can sue into oblivion other families. Think of the record labels who have to tirelessly fool new musicians into contracts where they'll never make any money for themselves but plenty for the labels. I just hope you pirates can sleep at night knowing that RIAA appointed lawyer won't be getting his daughter that second BMW with the bullet proof tinted windows. I just hope you can sleep at night!
Sebastian AnthonyDec 25th 2009 11:53AM
My cold, pirate heart almost shed a tear.
techpopsDec 25th 2009 1:09PM
*stops burning xmas albums to write*
hehe well that's because you're one of the nice pirates. More Captain Jack Sparrow than Captain Hook.
Sebastian AnthonyDec 25th 2009 3:16PM
I know it's completely off-topic but... I have dressed up as Jack Sparrow on numerous occasions.
It's the eye-shadow that I love replicating the most.
techpopsDec 25th 2009 9:42PM
Well offtopic schmopic, it's xmas.
I think your still at a healthy stage with the Jack Sparrow dressing up. I haven't seen you say savvy at the end of sentences or talk about the where the rum went. :)
Sebastian AnthonyDec 25th 2009 9:44PM
Ah... rum...
Not touched it since I graduated from university.
Actually, I've been almost teetotal since university. Wild three years. Lots of dressing up, eyeliner and alcohol.
I am making up for lost sitting-in-front-of-PC-for-days-on-end time now.
JD AndroDec 26th 2009 1:25AM
This is nothing new. Grooveshark has been doing this for around two and a half years. And it's awesome.
kingkool68Dec 28th 2009 9:59AM
Or you could just use Grooveshark and be done with it!