Darren Straight's Blog

Sonific launches Playlists: finally, no more one-track music widgets!

11 Aug 2007 @ 10:53 PM

Sonific LLC, a leading provider of music widgets for social media sites, have recently announced the availability of playlists for its SongSpots music widgets. Following this release, a www.Sonific.com user can build and share fully customizable playlists with up to 25 full-length tracks containing any of the over 200.000 songs provided by Sonific, on-demand and in any order, without any restrictions, free of charge.

Sonific’s SongSpots music widgets can simply be copied and pasted into personal web spaces on over 40 platforms and many Web2.0 applications, including iGoogle, Myspace, eBay, Facebook, Friendster, Yahoo360, Blogger, Xanga, Vox, WordPress, Typepad, Netvibes, LiveJournal, AIM Pages, Smugmug, FreeWebs, Multiply, Slideroll, Windows Live, and Ning, instantly adding a fully personalized music experience to web-sites, user profiles and online communities.

Unlike most online radio services that are operating based on compulsory web-casting licensing schemes that govern the blanket use of master recordings, Sonific licenses all recordings directly from each participating artist or record label. Therefore, Sonific’s service is not hampered by the often quite stringent licensing restrictions that prohibit some of the most user-appreciated features such as fully interactive playlists and the on-demand play of individual songs.

I myself have been a Sonific user since around this time last year when it went into beta, so it’s great to see how far Sonific’s SongSpots music widgets have come. If you havent tried creating your’e own yet why not head over to http://sonific.com and sign up. If you would like to see some sites/blogs etc which host them then why not check out http://sonific.com/home/examples. This list is much bigger now than what it used to be when I was one of the few on it and I’m guessing the list isn’t updated as much anymore as there’s so many people using Sonific now.