On the homepage of this website it says that Mog is “The Most Sophisticated, User-Friendly Music Player on the Web”. So why have I not come across it before or none of my friends recommended it to me? I know now, it’s not accessible to the UK. So why do sites make statements like “on the Web” and show UK advertising, when everyone knows the web is worldwide.
Anyway, having done a search for one of my old twelves that I cannot find on Spotify or iTunes, I did find it, shame I can’t play it… doh!
Not so long ago I put up a post about a music website that is powered through recommendation called MFlow. Reflecting on what I am doing here is recommending a website to anyone that maybe interested. Some days I also find people recommending to me what sites they use and the word of mouth concept generally works well.
So it’s interesting to come across a music website whose priority it is to act as a hub for all quality music websites and the users that love them.
Dreamingstreaming.info is the site and is currently in a beta phase. They aim to offer users links to the sites who only provide high quality levels of sound. With the numerous ways of finding and playing music currently on the web Dreamstreaming will definitely help those who are embarking on sorting out their music collections and/or discovering these useful links.
Again it’s hard to tell how quickly or how successfully this site can become a brand name. That will be down to the users and marketing power combined. I think this is definitely a good idea because I cannot remember the last time someone recommended to me such a hub of a music and sound centered site.
Content Courtesy of DreamingStreaming :
DreamStreaming aims to become the most respected internet music information website in the world, for all types of streaming, download and on-demand music sources offering a high quality of service and / or music content through the internet.
Music used to be simple. You heard a track on the radio, you purchased the record, you made tapes. Nice.
Then came the Internet, and that all changed. Peer-to-peer file sharing created the need for free music. Although file sharing still continues to exist, there is now a significant market for legal streaming services. Music lovers are streaming free music from a variety of sources like Spotify etc.
When Last FM arrived on the scene in 2002 they used a music recommender system called “Audioscrobbler”. It was slightly different with its streaming model in that it recommends music, videos and concerts based on what you listen to. They do this by telling you what other music people are listening to based on the choice of artist you have made. In March 2009 subscription services was introduced to some countries.
But what if it was the people instead of a computer system recommending music, add in the twist of being paid for those recommendations, then sharing music and more importantly making money, may have found a new model within the music industry.
Start-up mflow may have just come up with such a model. They understand that a lot of music that comes into our lives comes from recommendations and therefore could be used a source for music searchers everywhere. The big question is the catalog, without a choice users could find this model a turn off, and therefore the community could fall apart. It’s a good idea, but whether it can work is a bigger question.
Looking to launch in April 2010 mflow whose tag line is ‘music is better shared’, quote some of the following on their site :
We don’t want be told what we ‘might like’ by a software program.
We don’t want to stare at an empty search bar… “a whole world of music at my fingertips, and I can’t think of anything to look for…”
We don’t want to have to subscribe to anything.
We don’t want adverts.
We just want a way for our mates to send us music they think rocks.
Vy.ber ~ Virtually Cyber 