Playlist.com files for Chapter 11

Ok wow, this site is awesome. Simple and clean interface to easily create a playlist and share it. I found all the song I wanted and also found other users playlist featuring my fav. artist.

I know thesixtyone and grooveshark. They both have their uses..

For ts1, I use it to discover brand new artist but the playlist part is so damn hard to use with this sucky interface. I'm always lost in it.. I click on a user playlist, then cannot come back, etc etc.

For grooveshark, it's just terribly slow with a huge flash engine that take all screen.

* edit * : I feel I was really harsh on grooveshark and I feel bad about it. It's a great website that I use pretty often.

Could someone enlighten me about the use of flash for audio.. Is it the only way to play songs?! I think I was playing midi file before even flash existed. :-/

Using RIAA/MPAA content is a sure-fire to get traction, as the whole Internet craves/dies for their content. Ironcially, content they dont want to pay for.

Overall the majority of businesses who utilize & market to users come get RIAA/MPAA content never seem to have long lasting businesses.

Well Cnet, you seemed to have forgotten about Grooveshark as a point of comparison, for they are doing fairly well. Or how about anywhere.fm (YC S07), which was so damn good before imeem (now myspace music) ruined it. But, I guess TechCrunch saw this coming (http://techcrunch.com/2008/01/28/imeem-gobbles-up-a-young-st...).

I really wish Apple gobbled up Anywhere.fm and slap it as cloud iTunes. It's really all a sad story.

Good article... short, informative, and fills you in on a whole history in the space of a few paragraphs.