What exactly is Sonifics SongSpots Music Player?

By - Darren Straight

What exactly is Sonifics SongSpots Music Player?

Ever heard of Sonific’s SongSpots? Are you on the Sonific’s SongSpots Limited Private Beta? What do you think of Sonific’s SongSpots Service?

What’s this, you havent heard of Sonific’s SongSpots Service yet, well let me explain, or better yet lets have Sonific the company explain to you first about their selves as a company:

Sonific was founded in July 2005, with the mission of making large catalogs of great music available for the many types of audio-visual usages on the Internet, both for private / non-commercial or promotional purposes, as well as for professional (B2B) users, and licensed products and services.

Sonific’s SongSpots service is our first B2C release, reflecting our philosophy that offering better tools for music discovery and providing new, free platforms of exposure is what will really sell music, going forward, and that the viral nature of the Internet is perfectly suited to help get the word out for new and established artists and their music.

We also believe that many of today’s ‘digital natives’ and ‘peer-producers’ want to personalize their web presences, customize the look and feel of their sites, integrate multimedia where they can, and will ultimately use the web as a fully interactive, 2-way, personalized, and therefore ‘sonified’ medium.

Equally important, Sonific’s business model is driven by the concept of empowering both the user as well as the content providers, and we believe that this approach will be a very powerful force in the digital music economy.

Sonific is privately funded by a well-known group of U.S.-based angel investors.

So now you should know a bit about Sonific as a business, I guess you would like to know what is Songspot, well let’s have them explain them selves, this time their service:

SongSpots are customizable flash-players that will play (i.e. stream) the song of your choice on almost any webpage that you can edit yourself, such as your blog, your online network profile, or your own homepage. They look like this:

To get SongSpots you simply log in to Sonific.com, search for, preview and select a song you like, generate and copy the player code, and drop / paste it into any suitable input field on your desired target site, such as the ‘new post’ box on your blog, the ‘description’ field on your photo site, the ‘about me’ space on your social network profile, the html editor on your website wizard, and so on. The exact process varies for each site, and therefore Sonific offers a constantly increasing number of SongSpotsguides to the most popular sites and services that will make this a lot easier for you.

Once you have put the SongSpots code on your website, and have re-published it, the music you selected will play every time someone visits your site. Of course, the player can be set to ‘auto-on’ or off, as you see fit, and you can customize the look and feel of your SongSpots player, as well (we will be expanding those choices continuously throughout the year, too). All your SongSpots can be saved in the MySongSpots folder, allowing you to change songs very quickly, or to just collect your favorite songs for later use.

But hey you’ve only seen the player once here, so why not see for yourself how much other people love Sonific’s SongSpots Player by seeing it in action as well as reading some media coverage about it!

Sonific media coverage
Benoit Descary
Edcostn on Triquard dot org
Florin (Player in sidebar)
Fred Destin
GrObIgOu
HypeBot
Mashable
PresseCitron
Swift Comeuppance
Sylvie Krstulovic
TechnoSight