I love music, but I am really bad about keeping up with new stuff. My iTunes library is only so-so, so I spend most of my time listening to playlists on 8tracks. This is good for variety, and great for finding the right background music for a BBQ or party, but there's something missing: my friends. I have a few friends who have great taste in music, and who are totally on top of what's new and good. As it works now, every once in a while I'll get a recommendation from one of them, I'll buy the album on Amazon, and then I'll listen to it non-stop for a few weeks. It's great when it happens, but it doesn't happen that often. I want something more automated and frequent. A few of these friends publish their music on the web (see Piecemaker
I love music, but I am really bad about keeping up with new stuff. My iTunes library is only so-so, so I spend most of my time listening to playlists on 8tracks. This is good for variety, and great for finding the right background music for a BBQ or party, but there's something missing: my friends. I have a few friends who have great taste in music, and who are totally on top of what's new and good. As it works now, every once in a while I'll get a recommendation from one of them, I'll buy the album on Amazon, and then I'll listen to it non-stop for a few weeks. It's great when it happens, but it doesn't happen that often. I want something more automated and frequent. A few of these friends publish their music on the web (see Piecemaker
). Problem is, they each use different platforms to publish, and as far as I can tell, there's not a great way to combine these into one stream. Piecemaker uses WordPress and outputs a standard podcast feed, and My Brooklyn is Better uses Tumblr, which embeds a flash player and forbids linking directly to the audio file. I'm sure I have other friends who are publishing on platforms (Last.fm, 8tracks, Facebook?) that I don't know about yet). So, what I want is a way to take these streams, regardless of platform or format, and create a mixed feed or webpage. I don't care about actually downloading the music; I just want to be able to listen on the web, keep track of the ones I like, and have the option to buy the albums later. I'm sure this is possible using some combination of tools that are already out there. For starters, I'm playing around with
. We'll see if that works. But is there something out there that I'm missing that already does this in a more straightforward way? Seems like there must be, but I haven't found it yet.
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). Problem is, they each use different platforms to publish, and as far as I can tell, there's not a great way to combine these into one stream. Piecemaker uses WordPress and outputs a standard podcast feed, and My Brooklyn is Better uses Tumblr, which embeds a flash player and forbids linking directly to the audio file. I'm sure I have other friends who are publishing on platforms (Last.fm, 8tracks, Facebook?) that I don't know about yet). So, what I want is a way to take these streams, regardless of platform or format, and create a mixed feed or webpage. I don't care about actually downloading the music; I just want to be able to listen on the web, keep track of the ones I like, and have the option to buy the albums later. I'm sure this is possible using some combination of tools that are already out there. For starters, I'm playing around with
. We'll see if that works. But is there something out there that I'm missing that already does this in a more straightforward way? Seems like there must be, but I haven't found it yet.
Here at The Open Planning Project, we are currently looking to add to our talented design team. If you're a web designer with visual design talent, rock-solid production skills, and a strong intuition for user experience, we want to hear from you. Download the full job description. Life is good at TOPP -- we work on reallycoolprojects and have an amazing team, plus nice perks like five weeks paid vacation and lunch every day. We're a "dot-org": a new kind of non-profit that feels like a dot-com startup. If you're interested in working with us, let us know.
