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Anywhere.fm = 1.4 Millions songs uploaded.

25 points by rokhayakebe 19y ago

O boy. Steve Jobs, I really recommend you call these guys up and start talking price. Seriously if I had a spare million bucks I would do anything to buy a piece of this *up.

amichail 19y ago
From the about page: "Play it anywhere on the best web music player" What does this mean exactly? In what sense is it the best?
- kyro 19y ago
  I wouldn't read too much into it...
- rokhayakebe 19y ago
  Maybe it means " play it (any song ) anywhere on the best web music player ( which would be the Anywhere music player)" so translation play that song anywhere you are on anyhwere. Then again I may be wrong.
adamsmith 19y ago
That number isn't what matters. Stickiness is what matters. Shameless self-linking: "What You Should Be Measuring," http://blogs.xobni.com/asmith/archives/33 http://blogs.xobni.com/asmith/archives/33
- palish 19y ago
  And yet, I doubt users are leaving 1.4 million songs and not returning to listen to them once in awhile.
  - mrevelle 19y ago
    Interesting. Wouldn't most user's have a portable music player? If so, why would users go to the site to listen to their uploaded music? From a listener standpoint, the fun is in exploring other people's music. There really are two user roles at Anywhere.fm, the "inner DJ" and the "music consumer". The 1.4 million songs shows that they've been successful at making the "share your music" process easy. The more important statistic is how many people actually listen to any of the stations.
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palish 19y ago
Hum... It might be good if Anywhere.fm's buttons on the lower left become consistent with iTunes' buttons on the lower left.
rnesh 19y ago
I like Anywhere.fm a lot. It has a very simple and nice UI. In my opinion, it's a very useful service.
menloparkbum 19y ago
I hate you, anywhere.fm. I just spent the past six weeks building the exact same thing. :( On the other hand, it is great. The only problem I have with a web music player is that I have a huge music library and it takes forever to upload everything. The other issue I have is there is no easy way to sync to my ipod. I'd also like to be able to burn to CD for listening in my car. I'm investigating AIR for these features. Initially my plan was to make extensions for the various browsers, but even just making a FF extension is a huge headache. Also, I don't really know whether or not what I'm doing is legal. I will admit that a good chunk of my library is stuff I've ripped from other people's iPods. If I upload this stuff to S3, is Amazon going to turn me over to the RIAA?
nickb 19y ago
As a user, I love anywhere.fm but as an investor, I'd have a qestion about its legality because of the UMG vs MP3.com case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com Have you guys looked into that? Seems to me that these two services are almost identical and anywhere.fm has an excellent frontend.
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- anson 19y ago
  Excellent question! The most precise case to follow is the MyPlay case. In fact, the ex-ceo of MP3.com created a startup, similar to ours, that is protected under the results of the MyPlay case, which showed that digital locker services are kosher. In fact a quick google search shows you this space has many competitors :).
  - amichail 19y ago
    What's the logic behind this precedent? Isn't it functionally equivalent to what mp3.com offered?
    - palish 19y ago
      Logic? US courts? Does not compute.
      - anson 19y ago
        :)
    - sbraford 19y ago
      Is it because the media files come from consumers who've already ripped their media into mp3s and upload the songs themselves? MP3.com bought a bunch of CDs and went to town ripping them, sans license arrangements with the studios.
staunch 19y ago
At 3.5MB per song that's 4.6TB. On Amazon S3 I think that'd cost ~$500 in ingress bandwidth and ~$700/mo for storage. Not too expensive so far. The streaming is going to hurt the most though I'm sure.
- ashu 19y ago
  There's also the SoundExchange fees for each song that is played from a friend-radio.
SKUM 19y ago
seeqpod makes more since to me. http://www.seeqpod.com http://www.seeqpod.com
jwinter 19y ago
Do users pay for space? Will it be ad-supported?
ajc001 19y ago
for itunes users who have a big music library, i find Simplify Media much easier. www.simplifymedia.com
sbraford 19y ago
So this is kind of like Orb only your music gets uploaded to a central server instead of streamed from your home PC? The UI is incredible.

25 points by rokhayakebe 19y ago

O boy. Steve Jobs, I really recommend you call these guys up and start talking price. Seriously if I had a spare million bucks I would do anything to buy a piece of this *up.

amichail 19y ago

From the about page: "Play it anywhere on the best web music player" What does this mean exactly? In what sense is it the best?

kyro 19y ago
I wouldn't read too much into it...
rokhayakebe 19y ago
Maybe it means " play it (any song ) anywhere on the best web music player ( which would be the Anywhere music player)" so translation play that song anywhere you are on anyhwere. Then again I may be wrong.

adamsmith 19y ago

That number isn't what matters. Stickiness is what matters. Shameless self-linking: "What You Should Be Measuring," http://blogs.xobni.com/asmith/archives/33 http://blogs.xobni.com/asmith/archives/33

palish 19y ago
And yet, I doubt users are leaving 1.4 million songs and not returning to listen to them once in awhile.
- mrevelle 19y ago
  Interesting. Wouldn't most user's have a portable music player? If so, why would users go to the site to listen to their uploaded music? From a listener standpoint, the fun is in exploring other people's music. There really are two user roles at Anywhere.fm, the "inner DJ" and the "music consumer". The 1.4 million songs shows that they've been successful at making the "share your music" process easy. The more important statistic is how many people actually listen to any of the stations.

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palish 19y ago

Hum... It might be good if Anywhere.fm's buttons on the lower left become consistent with iTunes' buttons on the lower left.

rnesh 19y ago

I like Anywhere.fm a lot. It has a very simple and nice UI. In my opinion, it's a very useful service.

menloparkbum 19y ago

I hate you, anywhere.fm. I just spent the past six weeks building the exact same thing. :( On the other hand, it is great. The only problem I have with a web music player is that I have a huge music library and it takes forever to upload everything. The other issue I have is there is no easy way to sync to my ipod. I'd also like to be able to burn to CD for listening in my car. I'm investigating AIR for these features. Initially my plan was to make extensions for the various browsers, but even just making a FF extension is a huge headache. Also, I don't really know whether or not what I'm doing is legal. I will admit that a good chunk of my library is stuff I've ripped from other people's iPods. If I upload this stuff to S3, is Amazon going to turn me over to the RIAA?

nickb 19y ago

As a user, I love anywhere.fm but as an investor, I'd have a qestion about its legality because of the UMG vs MP3.com case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com Have you guys looked into that? Seems to me that these two services are almost identical and anywhere.fm has an excellent frontend.

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anson 19y ago
Excellent question! The most precise case to follow is the MyPlay case. In fact, the ex-ceo of MP3.com created a startup, similar to ours, that is protected under the results of the MyPlay case, which showed that digital locker services are kosher. In fact a quick google search shows you this space has many competitors :).
- amichail 19y ago
  What's the logic behind this precedent? Isn't it functionally equivalent to what mp3.com offered?
  - palish 19y ago
    Logic? US courts? Does not compute.
    - anson 19y ago
      :)
  - sbraford 19y ago
    Is it because the media files come from consumers who've already ripped their media into mp3s and upload the songs themselves? MP3.com bought a bunch of CDs and went to town ripping them, sans license arrangements with the studios.

staunch 19y ago

At 3.5MB per song that's 4.6TB. On Amazon S3 I think that'd cost ~$500 in ingress bandwidth and ~$700/mo for storage. Not too expensive so far. The streaming is going to hurt the most though I'm sure.

ashu 19y ago
There's also the SoundExchange fees for each song that is played from a friend-radio.

SKUM 19y ago

seeqpod makes more since to me. http://www.seeqpod.com http://www.seeqpod.com

jwinter 19y ago

Do users pay for space? Will it be ad-supported?

ajc001 19y ago

for itunes users who have a big music library, i find Simplify Media much easier. www.simplifymedia.com

sbraford 19y ago

So this is kind of like Orb only your music gets uploaded to a central server instead of streamed from your home PC? The UI is incredible.