Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Twitter is a great medium as a communication tool but now people adopting many verious style to use it. Companies creating theire accounts to create very good brand image in users & customers & using it as a vital tool for customer support & communication. Music bands creating Twitter accounts to increase theire fan base and but now Twitter also become file sharing tool with songtwit.com.

Songtwit.com provides a platform for music lovers who wanna share theire music with friends. It provides p2p file sharing & user can add music files from a third part website link, Upload track from your hard drive or try to search the songtwit library for good music. It support mp3, m4a, wav, wma, ogg & acc format for Uploading.

It gives users a three-step process for sending music via Twitter. First, the user finds the song. the song could be on a website, on a user's hard drive, or in the SongTwit library, which using third party hosted audio clips& if you upload the track from your hard drive it use iMeem web playerto play the track that you share with others.

The user then provides his Twitter username and password and a message of 115 characters or fewer. The tweet is sent publicly or as a reply

When other users click the SongTwit link, they are redirected to a SongTwit page with a little custom player (video for YouTube clips is minimized) and the original sender's message. See the example here

It can be a good tool for Bands for self-promotion, and this would be an excellent way to send fans demos or previews of new tracks. But many improvement needed like still download features is not available &user not able to see the upload status, Enable to rename files & it use iMeem native player for playing audio clips then integration with iMeem or other service bring a added charm.


Today Last.fm, the most popular online music discovery service redesigned the listening page, Now last.fm showcases a rich catalogue of images & video recommendation to listeners which uploaded by the Last.fm community. when you listen songs it shows music videos for the songs you're listening if it's available & when they're not, it will show photo slideshows of the related artist.


Combo Stations

Combo stations where listeners can pick up to three artists, or up to three tags, and mix them together in a combination of choice. for Eg, you can add one tag for rock & pop, classical & piano, 80s & hip hop so you can set tags according to your mood or create a new remix station with classical & hip hop & Same way listener can add three favorite artist of their choice.

Station History
You can see your recent played station list under recent station tab where you can find all of your station history. here you can remove the station or jump up to the new one instantly.



Scrobble
The new player also features a private listening mode, where scrobbling is turned off so that you can listen to your favorite artist songs in total privacy.


new features not included in iPhone Application. Recently last.fm started asked to subscribe for €3.00 per month after 30 track free trial period who is outside of the USA. Everything else on Last.fm like scrobbling, recommendations, charts, biographies, events, videos etc will remain free in all countries. In the USA, UK and Germany, where it’s feasible to run an ad-supported radio service, there won’t be any changes.