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

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/

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.