Oboe Offers Portable Playlist

Chiggers writes to tell us that Mad Penguin has an interesting look at Oboe, the new music service from MP3Tunes. For a monthly fee Oboe allows you unlimited space to create a cross-platform music playlist available anywhere you have an internet connection via their AJAX-enabled GUI. The audio player still needs a little work but overall it is an interesting idea.

Comments

Two sides

[Knight Thrasher]

This is an interesting idea. For those of us with nazi-port-blocking ISP's, who can't just open a secure server from home, this would be nice.

However, I see mucho problemos in this sites future. In short, I'll summarize them all into 4 letters:

RIAA.

tin hat on!

[kalpol]

1. Create MP3 storage service

2. Wait, rubbing hands and cackling evilly, for everyone to upload their pirated music.

3. Show up at the door and demand to see the CDs the music came from...in fact, forget the CD, just sue.

4. ???

5. Profit!!

grab an old machine and slap linux on it

[aurelito]

ampache can do this:
http://www.ampache.org/

kplaylist is a bit more lightweight (i use it):
http://kplaylist.net/

jinzora is a bloat beast, but a nice one at that:
http://www.jinzora.org/

Filesize limitations

[thaerin]

20 MB audio file limit per song

So I'm guessing that means I won't be able to take some extended Iron Butterfly tracks with me then?

online radio?

[dotpavan]

how different is this from online radio? I could customize my station, pay a small charge (say for Yahoo music) and get to rent most of the artists! and I dont need to upload (imagine gigs of upload) anything nor worry about their servers.

anything new here? except for that I might have to spend some time customizing my playlist on my radio, but it sure is shorter than uploading

byw this Robertson (CEO/prez) is the same guy behind Linspire.

MP3 webs

[Life700MB]

If you're into music playlists webs you really have to check Pandora, a great page that creates playlists based on genetic algorithms that relate an entire collection of songs to the one you describe as your favourite.

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Re:My.mp3.com?

[dotpavan]

this mp3tunes.com is brought to you by the same people that were behind mp3.com

Several Problems with this

[cualexander]

1.) 60 Gigs of Music would take a good while to upload at 32k/sec.
2.) This assumes you always have internet connectivity.
3.) Just seems like a huge pain really, and for what gain?
4.) I can do the same thing right now if I wanted to with my broadband connection.
5.) This is more convienent than my iPod how? Cheaper in the short run maybe, but not more convienent.

Someone needs to explain the need for this. Maybe for a small segment of the population that has internet access and a computer attached to their hip 24/7 this would work. The review says he has problems carrying around an iPod, even an iPod nano, because he would forget it.

Come on people. I don't see how this can possible last, or take off and the capital investment involved on the company's side as far as storage and bandwith costs doesn't seem at all to be covered by $40/year?? How does the company make a profit off that? That seems a bit ridiculous to me. I'd be leery of uploading my entire collection of music to a third party. Especially one of questionable staying power. So I spend hours and hours uploading my entire collection and then what happens when it all goes down?

Just don't think this was well thought out.

Time waste sorting music on iPod?

[corvenus]

From the FA:

Even though the iPod Nanos and other similar MP3 players are very small, it still is a bit of a bother to have yet one more device in my brief case.

So, how the heck am i supposed to listen to my music on my way to work with this thing? Oh right, on my laptop with an antenna! Sure. Of course, i also want to take the time to upload 35Gb worth of music on some server i'm not even sure will still be there 1 year from now. Damn right... Honestly, except for being inexpensive, i can't any advantages to subscribing to thing service instead of having an MP3 player.

The REAL story....

[Sierpinski]

You know there's just going to be some guy sitting at the big 9-screen display at the company HQ watching as the hard drives fill up with music, shifting his hands in that manical way saying: "MINE! THEY'RE ALL MINE! ALL THE MUSIC I COULD EVER WANT!!! MINE!!!"

He'll download all of it to his 500TB iPod Mega-edition and never listen to the same song twice in his life.

Nothing new

[danpsmith]

Services like these have been around for a long time. In fact, so long that I was dissatisfied with the few existing services and decided to try my own hand at something similar for my senior seminar project.

I'm quite sure that this service is more complicated and sophisticated and things, but I needed a simple solution for listening to music from my home PC while I was commuting to school with my laptop. I looked at existing solutions but they seemed to either be too sophisticated, not work, or cost more than I was willing to pay for such a service.

I always thought it was a tad bit redundant to host another whole collection of MP3s when all I really wanted was to listen to my own music while away from the computer. I didn't need a lot of bandwidth to pull this off, because it was only me listening.

My solution was a program I wrote that is basically a HTTP server modified to send playlist files containing the URLs of music, and will also zip up files if you have to get a whole album during a visit somewhere.

I know that most broadband has not enough upload speed for a real server, but if you are just serving yourself your own files and you don't mind leaving your computer on, why not just do it that way? I noticed that the 30k/sec I get in upload speed is more than enough to stream most MP3 files without a hitch. You definitely don't need a dedicated service to accomplish these goals.