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Re: Reblogging Music

Dan Kantor — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:38:00 -0000

I took a stab at creating a Tumblr mp3 player. You can check it out here - http://blog.dankantor.com/p...

I'm looking for feedback, so please leave comments on that post.

Re: Reblogging Music

fredwilson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:26:06 -0000

I use the yahoo media player on my avc blog but I don't like the whole music experience there nearly as much as on tumblr

I guess that was the point of my post but I didn't make it very well

Re: Reblogging Music

fakedjs — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:05:04 -0000

The best in recommending old an new music.

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Thanks for listening towww.fakedjs.com

Re: Reblogging Music

fredwilson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:03:06 -0000

I am sure that's true but its hard to read 100 music blogs a day

Re: Reblogging Music

fakedjs — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:45:57 -0000

I still think individual niche sites are better sources of music discovery than these aggregators.

Re: Reblogging Music

AllenLouison — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:09:18 -0000

fred -- i started experimenting with tumblr as a music blog but ended up shying away from using its media features because of the uploading and playback+download issue. uploading one per day wasn't great and i really wanted to give in-page playing AND the ability to download the posted mp3.

yahoo and lucas gonze has been putting a lot time into their webpage media player which is what i ended up going with for my tumblr blog: http://rabidears.com.

even though i have to find a separate place to host the mp3, all i had to do is place 2 lines of javascript into the tumblog template and you get a great in-page player with playlisting capabilities.

you can get the full yahoo media player documentation here: http://developer.yahoo.com/...

music blog aurgasm (http://aurgasm.us/) has a killer implementation of the player plus in-page retrieval of addt'l posts-- when you get to the bottom of the blog homepage, it loads the next series of posts/mp3's so that you can have continuous playback of music instead of forcing the player to re-load with a page refresh.

Re: Reblogging Music

danvers — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:34:17 -0000

You might be interested in Sound Index from the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/soundi... - which was built by Novarising, a small London based company.

Re: Reblogging Music

whitneymcn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:39:42 -0000

Nope - at present there's no way to reblog via the API.

Re: Reblogging Music

Dan Kantor — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:48:35 -0000

Had a look at the Tumblr API. I didn't see any method to reblog. Anyone know if that's supported?

Re: Reblogging Music

daryn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:50:53 -0000

Hi Frank! The player on AVC isn't perl code, that is for something else. Fred's widget is just a flash embed, loaded with some javascript. I'll create a page with some instructions on embedding, but in the meantime, feel free to email me and i can help you out. daryn at daryn.net

Re: Reblogging Music

Frank — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:55:33 -0000

Cool, will check back to this article during the next days. Would be great if you could post the link here. Thanks a lot.

Re: Reblogging Music

kortina — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:32:25 -0000

Frank, I've been working on a pure javascript version of this on and off in evenings. I'll try to finish it up and post a link when it's ready.

Re: Reblogging Music

Frank — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:03:37 -0000

Thanks. But that's Pearl code that doesn't work with my Wordpress blog. Think there are some bloggers out there that would like to share some music with their readers. Maybe a plugin can contribute to make the service more popular.

Re: Reblogging Music

andreaitis — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:59:03 -0000

totally agree with you about reblogging. right now i still do so much of it the old fashioned way -- find something, email it to my core group, and then we have a few rounds of commenting, analyzing, mocking, etc. especially the mocking. ;-j but there's too much information and not enough time -- now more than ever -- and reblogging helps weed out and raise up what is really of interest to me. i just need to find the magic digital weedwhacker that prunes away the extraneous stuff. gotta work on that...
and i wish hype machine would add recommendations.

Re: Reblogging Music

daryn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:45:30 -0000

good point; i missed that it didn't auto-play the next track.

I'd be happy to build a player/playlist (m3u or podcast feed), but there are a couple barriers right now. 1. the tumblr api doesn't let you access people's following list, so you'd have to maintain the subscription list separately, and 2. tumblr asks that you don't download the mp3s from their servers. The latter really is just semantics, but I'd prefer to keep the tumblr folk happy with me :)

Plus, it'd definitely be ideal if this was all accessible from your dashboard...

Re: Reblogging Music

Joe Lazarus — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:13:06 -0000

Yeah, but I don't use that for the same reason... no playlist. I like to listen to music in the background as I do other work on my computer. Maybe I'm lazy, but I can't be bothered to switch back and forth between screens every few minutes to play the next song.

Re: Reblogging Music

fredwilson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:11:05 -0000

I use soundbox all the time

But you have to hit next and play each time

What we really need is a playlist style player

Re: Reblogging Music

daryn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:09:24 -0000

tumblr discourages direct access to the mp3 files hosted on their servers. If they officially sanctioned accessing the files, it would be pretty trivial to add support to songbird, or even better (IMO) just as a podcast or m3u playlist to import into your favorite player.

Re: Reblogging Music

tmarman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:56:42 -0000

Songbird does this on some sites - it finds media on a given page and presents it like a playlist at the bottom of the page (load Hypem.com or Last.fm in Songbird). It doesn't seem to do this on Tumblr (or at least on the two links you gave) yet but I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to support natively or through a simple extension.

http://getsongbird.com

Re: Reblogging Music

daryn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:54:05 -0000

There is also the hidden sound box player that works pretty nicely. Just type 'listen' when you're on your tumblr dashboard and a link to it will appear at the top of the page.

Re: Reblogging Music

Scott Lockhart — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:47:12 -0000

Regator.com is another alternative although it is currently in private beta. Regator is a blog aggregator designed to make quality blog content accessible to the masses. The site can help you find some great music (and video) from the best blogs on the internet. There is a player within the site that allows you to search for individual keywords, browse categories, create playlists, preview tracks AND keep navigating the site without a pop-up window.
Full Disclosure: I am one of the co-founders.
Cheers!

Re: Reblogging Music

Joe Lazarus — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:36:14 -0000

For me, the Tumblr playlist option isn't a 'nice to have' feature, it's a 'must have'. Without it, I find myself rarely using Tumblr for music discovery. Playing one song at a time requires too much effort and interrupts my regular work flow on the computer. In order to listen to a song on my Tumblr Dashboard, I usually have to flip into iTunes or some other music I have playing in the background (HypeM, etc) and pause that in order to play the Tumblr track. It's usually not worth the effort for just one song, so I usually scan over the track information unless it's something I'm dying to hear. I hardly ever press 'play' anymore in Tumblr and it's entirely because the interface doesn't support playlists.

If I were David and Marco, I would generalize the playlist concept and apply it to all Tumblr media types (audio, video, photos, etc). There should be a 'playlist' option for all those formats. The audio playlist would work like the Hype Machine. Photo playlists would be full-screen slideshows like the ones on Flickr. Video playlists would work like http://chime.tv.

Re: Reblogging Music

fredwilson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:27:12 -0000

Daryn built it

http://blog.daryn.net/

Re: Reblogging Music

fredwilson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:24:09 -0000

I love that idea

Re: Reblogging Music

Frank — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:47:57 -0000

Hi,

where can one get this java script you have in the upper right corner of your blog? I love this feature, but havn't been able to find it on tumblr.

Thank you so much.

Best,
Frank