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Instant music gratification

Posted September 18th, 2008 at 12:01 am by Michael Spiegelman, Yahoo! Music

Number of Comments 6 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News

It’s happened to all of us. You hear a song on the radio that you really like or a tune gets stuck in your head and you just have to hear it again as soon as possible. You go to your computer and search for it… Download and install an application. Input your credit card. Restart your computer. Ten minutes later, you finally listen to your song!

But… not anymore.

Starting today on Yahoo!, we’re offering full-song playback, directly within our search pages, to make finding and listening to your favorite music easier. It’s part of our vision at Yahoo! Music to make the Web playable by removing the barriers that prevent people from clicking play and hearing music online. Check it out by searching for your favorite artist. It’s a cool integration of our FoxyPlayer — our browser-based media player — powered by our partner Rhapsody.

Search. Click play. Hear music.

FoxyPlayer

Michael Spiegelman
Head of Yahoo! Music

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Comment Eirik Refsdal | September 18th, 2008 at 6:22 am

Ooo! Unbelievably brilliant! Now please make it possible to buy a Rhapsody subscription from outside of the US, and I’ll love you long time :)

Comment Venkat | September 18th, 2008 at 8:31 am

Nice Feature. Good Marketing for Rhapsody too.

Comment Sarah B. | September 18th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

What’s the optimal way to search to get these results? If I search on an artist, say Prince, I get the music-enhanced results. However if I search on a song title (When Doves Cry) or artist and title (Prince When Doves Cry) the Rhapsody enhanced results don’t come up.

Are these alternate search results in progress or will searching by artist continue to be the best way to get these new results?

Michael Spiegelman | September 19th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

@Sarah – For now, the optimal way to get full-song playback is by searching for an artist. We are working as fast as we can to allow users to get full-song playback by searching an artist, song title and song title/artist. Stay tuned – we’re on it!

Thanks,
Michael

Comment Recoding studios Las Angeles | March 26th, 2009 at 9:46 am

Rhapsody is making nice moves. Yahoo really rocks. East or west yahoo is the best.

Comment RBM studios | March 27th, 2009 at 8:12 am

@Michel
Do u think that this will feature will become popular soon? Its a nice feature of course. But i don know how fast it will be popular. But anyhow definitely it will be famous and grab some attention.

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