This is big news for us... and you saw it here first. Playlists tools are now live at Sonific.com - no more one-track SongSpots! Here is the press release that is going out tomorrow.
San Francisco, CA, August 7, 2007
Sonific LLC, a leading provider of music widgets for social media sites, today announced the availability of playlists for its SongSpots™ music widgets. Following today’s release, a www.Sonific.com user can build and share fully customizable playlists with up to 25 full-length tracks containing any of the over 200.000 songs provided by Sonific, on-demand and in any order, without any restrictions, free of charge.
Sonific's SongSpots™ music widgets can simply be copied and pasted into personal web spaces on over 40 platforms and many Web2.0 applications, including iGoogle, Myspace, eBay, Facebook, Friendster, Yahoo360, Blogger, Xanga, Vox, Wordpress, Typepad, Netvibes, LiveJournal, AIM Pages, Smugmug, FreeWebs, Multiply, Slideroll, Windows Live, and Ning, instantly adding a fully personalized music experience to web-sites, user profiles and online communities.
Unlike most online radio services that are operating based on compulsory web-casting licensing schemes that govern the blanket use of master recordings, Sonific licenses all recordings directly from each participating artist or record label. Therefore, Sonific's service is not hampered by the often quite stringent licensing restrictions that prohibit some of the most user-appreciated features such as fully interactive playlists and the on-demand play of individual songs.
Comments Gerd Leonhard, Co-Founder and CEO of Sonific: "Many people enjoy listening to user-influenced or socially-programmed web radio services such as Pandora and Last.fm. On the other end of the spectrum, we have found that most people that are active social media participants or UGC creators and that seek to customize or 'widgetize' their own web-sites and online spaces by adding music, definitely want to select every single song they present to their visitors. The selected songs directly and immediately reflect who they are, as individuals, and are therefore a crucial part of their self-presentation. Since we launched 10 months ago, 1000s of users have asked us for this feature, and we are delighted to be able to offer it starting today. With this launch, and together with the recent launch of the Sonific Music Network at www.sonific.net, the possibilities for using SongSpots™ music widgets have become even more powerful: bands, artists and record labels can upload their own music at www.Sonific.net, create a complete radio-like music program using their tracks, and spread it virally across the web as a SongSpot™. Or, any user can now become a virtual DJ and share his individual playlists with his friends, on any platform he chooses. For the music industry, free, viral music syndication tools are now clearly becoming the driving force behind what I like to call Music2.0 - the next generation of how music is being marketed and sold. And Sonific intends to lead the way."
Sonific's catalog features a huge catalog of 'Longtail' music in just about any genre, provided by over 45.000 record labels and artists, as well as songs by well-known artists such as Frank Sinatra, Muddy Waters, The Barenaked Ladies, Coldcut, Billy Bragg, Echo & the Bunnymen, Scratch Lee Perry, Daddy Yankee and Amon Tobin.
And here is one of my first playlists:
Congrats, Gerd! Can't wait to try it out...Oh, and it's "Lee Scratch Perry".
Posted by: Nick | August 07, 2007 at 08:42 AM