Yahoo! Music Launches Indie Music Player
Posted by Rana Sobhany on November 15th, 2007 3:44 PMWell, Yahoo! has thrown their proverbial hat into the Facebook application ring and I have to hand it to them, their new app is highly addictive. Using Yahoo! Music Blog makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. The premise is simple, yet brilliant. The application scours the best indie blogs and pulls the MP3s into the player, allowing users to listen to full songs, add them to their favorites and share them with friends.
The most impressive aspect of the application is how polished it is. While there are occasional problems, such as loading a blog with no current songs listed, even the error message is in keeping with the indie vibe. When faced with such an error, a pleasant and soothing female voice announces: “That request cannot be processed, please try again” and you can’t even get upset about the bug. Well played, Yahoo!
Another aspect of the application that makes it so addictive is how simple the design and functionality are. There are 4 tabs, Recommended, Popular, Recently Viewed and My Favorites. There is a subtle fade out and fade in when switching between songs or music blogs, and the entire user experience is a very smooth and elegant.
If you want to spend hours discovering new music, go grab the Yahoo! Music Blogs application.
(11 votes, average: 4.64 out of 5)
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November 15th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
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November 15th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
This app is wicked!! - I spin in SF and am always looking for new artists to showcase, plus I get tired of listening to my records and crave new tunes. I love the tunes these blogs roll and this music blogs app looks clean and makes it super easy to navigate and hear cool &$&#! . This app just plain rocks.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:25 am
[…] Yahoo! Music Launches Indie Music Player - The Unofficial Facebook Blog If you like indie music and Facebook - this looks like a pretty cool thingy. Something to play with over the weekend. (tags: facebook yahoo music) No Comments so far Leave a comment RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> […]
December 11th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
so sweet! this is exactly what I needed. I love stereogum and am always curious to see what mp3s they’ve in rotation.
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
[…] White and Joseph Magnani of Yahoo!’s Media Innovation Group, the player has already received good press and has over 100 users on Facebook. Not bad for a week-old […]
June 30th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Great player. Yahoo grows and it becomes more and more interesting with new services.