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MediaMaster takes your music library online

by Josh Lowensohn

MediaMaster is a Web-based jukebox service that launched last week. MediaMaster gives users free storage space to upload their tunes and listen to them anywhere they have Internet access. The interface is clean, simple, and intuitive--if you're used to iTunes or Windows Media Player you'll feel right at home. Users can upload their tunes with two uploaders, a simple one for a few tracks and an advanced version that lets you simply drag and drop files from file folders right into the uploader.

Once your tracks are uploaded, you can create and manage playlists, rate individual songs, and share your music with others with embeddable widgets for blogs, Web sites, and social networking profiles.

MediaMaster has a lot of personality. Having an incomplete album will give album art a little "bite mark" out of it. Its radio station feature gives you a URL to publish so people can subscribe and listen to your customized playlists or music recommendations.

For copyright concerns, neither the widget or radio subscriptions actually give people copies of your music, it's all streamed. Likewise, there's no way for you to download the music once it's been uploaded, it can only be deleted.

For now, the service offers unlimited storage space, with plans to cap off user accounts at 4GB. There's also planned iPod integration. MediaMaster will let users upload any unprotected MP3, WMA, and M4A (AAC) file, complete with album art if it's within the file's metadata. Give it a spin here.

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Josh Lowensohn is an associate editor for Webware.com, CNET's blog about cool and otherwise useful Web applications and services. If you've found a site you'd like profiled, shoot him an e-mail. E-mail Josh.
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contradiction?
by carpe-dm March 23, 2007 8:22 AM PDT
"There's no way for you to download the music once it's been uploaded, it can only be deleted."

"There's also planned iPod integration."

Wouldn't iPod integration give you the ability to download files you've uploaded? Or is it going to be upload-only integration with the iPod (which wouldn't really be integration)?
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What's to stop the RIAA
by akasantajr346 March 24, 2007 9:34 AM PDT
What's to stop the RIAA from using this service as another way to accuse people of illegally attaining music by questioning where they got music from in the first place.
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I don't think they want to be stopped
by johns123 March 26, 2007 8:22 AM PDT
I've been monitoring iTunes and Win Media Player 11, and
both of them are attempting to report what they think are
illegal downloads. Both of them set up illegal peer to peer
servers on your machine, and by default they try to connect
out to other boxes and share your music. I see them connect
and report what they find ... to whom, I don't know. All I
do know is, in a University environment, they will bring your network down with the peer to peer traffic. I also
notice a sudden upsurge in reported lawsuits.
by chriss0c0 March 8, 2008 2:11 PM PST
There are tons of free services like this, but this one looks a little more polished then what I using at filefreak. Its kind of a toss up for me between the slickness of mediamaster and the ease of use with http://www.mp3crib.com
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