Comments on: More free on-demand audio with Muziic

You don't need to wait for Spotify to launch in the U.S.: the free Muziic player offers a massive library of streaming audio, on demand, for free. How? By using YouTube as its database. A great idea, although it could use some fit-and-finish.

[walterMCMLXXV]

i think this service will be gone within three months and question its legality.

[Maccess]

Hmmm. I have to agree. It's not just the music licensing, but also YouTube issues. You tube sells adspace on the page and in the video, anything that just "extracts" the audio is likely to injure their business model. However, I think its unlikely that YouTube will sue them, they're more likely to be bought out by YouTube or something similar.

[spy_eagle]

I've tried Muziic.com's service and love it! I have never liked YouTube, but Muziic.com changes that all around. I think this is going to be the next big thing and will be around for awhile. If there is legality issues then that would be on YouTube's side and not with Muziic as all the video's and music is hosted by YouTube. Record labels should pay attention, this is a simple system which will revolutionize how music and videos can be played online, without having to go through all the extra garbage! This one gets a thumbs up!

[MrZoo]

It's not really new. This reminds me of songza. Remember that service that pulls youtube music videos? Same concept here.

[Bh01]

Sadly the player is windoze only so far. Maybe they will release a Mac version?

[MattRosoff]

Unlikely: it was coded in VB6 by a single programmer. So even if it survives, Mac port is probably a low likelihood for now.

[themississippian]

is there anything out there that helps dialup users to get uninterrupted streaming of music radio or talk shows?i cannot get dsl service and broadband is too expensive since, i am retired.

[sparrowhyperion]

Dial up cannot compete with broadband access for music. There simply is not enough bandwidth. With broadband being so inexpensive nowadays, I wonder why anyone would still use Dialup if they had access to broadband. I pay $99 flat rate for 12MB/s Internet access, AND my telephone service, AND my digital cable TV all rolled into one cable bundle. You could probably get a streaming site to work, but it is going to sound like an old 1920s gramophone of someone stuttering with musical accompaniment. It's just not technically to do unless you were to find something that basically buffers the entire song before playing it. And download times would not be fast. an MP3 file is roughly between 1MB and 2MB per minute of playback time. So, downloads would not be fast by any means.

[gggg sssss]

it is called DSL

[eisenb]

Definitely very cool but I don't think legal. I think there's a good chance that they find themselves in the same position as the original Napster. Will be interesting to see if the labels go after them for faciliatating copyright infringement. Full article at http://digadvisors.com/free-streaming-music-from-muziic/.

[410landscaper]

Are there as many spam,adware and virus problems on this site that are on sites such as Limewire? Should we wait longer to use this site until they get the bugs out?