Anywhere.fm = 1.4 Millions songs uploaded.
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.
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?
MP3.com bought a bunch of CDs and went to town ripping them, sans license arrangements with the studios.
Shameless self-linking: "What You Should Be Measuring," http://blogs.xobni.com/asmith/archives/33
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.
"Play it anywhere on the best web music player"
What does this mean exactly? In what sense is it the best?
The UI is incredible.