FoxyTunes Planet: music information aggregator
FoxyTunes started out as a Firefox plug-in that provides users with the ability to play their music without leaving their browser. It’s one of many similar services which may be either useful or redundant depending on how you’ve set up your computer. FoxyTunes Planet is of more interest as it’s a mashup that aggregates a diverse range of music-related services into one webpage. As they claim on their FAQ:
There are a lot of cool music sites and services out there and their number is constantly growing. The problem is that there are simply not enough hours in a day to discover, try and use all of these services. FoxyTunes Planet plans to solve this problem by integrating all the best music sites and services into one convenient place.
Type an artist’s name into the search box and by default you’re presented with:
- YouTube videos
- Lyrics from LyricWiki
- Flickr photos
- Artist info from Last.fm
- Pandora’s artist radio
- MP3s from Hypemachine
- Google links for video, blog, news and general search
- Amazon albums
Despite the awful name, Foxytunes Planet provides a much more usable interface than, say, MusicMesh. It could do with - besides a better name - tools to personalise the interface, a proper URL and even the ability to add user comments so fans could add their enthusiasm.
Links: Foxytunes Planet, MusicMesh
Related: Fan Sites RIP (Net, Blogs and Rock’n'Roll)
May 13th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Thanks, Colin, for drawing my attention properly to Foxytunes by explaining it so well (so easy to bookmark these things without digesting them properly). Enabling user comments would be one way to go, and might help Foxytunes establish itself as a kind of one-stop-shop site. However, I suspect the entropy of the net may undermine most attempts at being a one-stop-shop (Wikipedia the exception that proves the rule?). Another option might be to enable to enable users to embed what Foxytunes in their communities or blogs. (Just thinking aloud here — not sure if that would be better or worse…)
May 14th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Glad to be of assistance! Agree about web entropy though embedding Foxytunes might not be the best way to go as all it’s doing for the most part is doing a search on a user-created term, reaping the resulting feeds and placing them together on one page.
May 24th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
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