Let’s share some music
April 8th, 2007 by some dude…or not. MediaMaster.com and Faces.com are sites that let you upload your (unprotected) music, create playlists, and put them on a web page using a widget (same way you embed YouTube movies in a site). I had grand plans for the Chopstork—I want to hear what you all listen to and discover me some new music.
I’ve started trying out the sites this weekend, but too bad they both have problems…at least for now. I haven’t been able to upload a single damn album yet. The problems with both are just bugs - they’ll be fixed eventually, so maybe we’ll try this again later.
From what I can tell, Faces has the better embedable widget. Anyone can listen to the playlists and skip tracks (but you can’t rewind). MediaMaster’s widget only let’s you pause and resume, and I haven’t figured out if the song order is always random. It let’s you see someone’s entire album collection, but not listen to it—you can only listen to playlists they’ve created—really confusing.
On the flip side, when you’re looking at your own account, MediaMaster acts as an online music player (looks very similar to iTunes). You can see and listen to all your albums plus easily create playlists. Faces is really a social-networking site and the music is just part of it. Music is stored in a “locker”—you can only listen to one song at a time from the locker. The only way to listen to an album in Face is is to explicitly create playlists and listen through the widgets (”TuneFeeds”).
The othe problem with Faces is it only takes MP3 files. If you use AAC, WMA, OGG, FLAC, or whatever, you have to convert them all to MP3 before upload—sucks.
In case you’re curious, or want to try it yourself and see if you get different results:
- MediaMaster fails to recognize when an upload is complete. When I try to play a song, it tells me it’s still waiting on the upload and can’t play it. Some songs work, some don’t.
- Faces’ bulk uploader just plain doesn’t work. It won’t let me drop any files into it.
dorking out 
, interweb , Music
