Comments on: Yahoo adds full-length music tracks to search results

Updated service allows for up to 25 full-length plays per month, but how good a job does it do at figuring out if your search was for a band or a site?

[benjaminstraight]

Cool. Good move by yahoo.

[todd_rimes]

I love Yahoo! Music - in fact I work there - but let's set the record straight.

The statement "...Yahoo Media Player the company has renamed FoxyPlayer (in reference to its Foxytunes roots)" is not reality-based. It was my team of talented developers -- Mike Davis, Amit Behere, and William Khoe, and talented Y! Designers and Y! Product Managers, who produced Yahoo Media Player. It has absolutely no ancestry or origins in Foxytunes.

~Todd Rimes
Sr. Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Music

[Josh.Lowensohn]

Sure thing--fixed & noted.

[Faye23]

Todd, can you please clarify something for me? I am an avid fan of Yahoo! Music. For several months my schedule did not permit me to use it. I recently tried to run Yahoo! Music Launchcast and it was stuck on "Connecting to". Up until now, I believed that it was because I had renewed my Norton Internet Security (NIS). For the past 3 days I have been e-mailing them back and forth regarding how to fix this. I've set NIS to allow all transactions from Yahoo Messenger, and I have done everything NIS has told me to do to allow the application to run.

Are you telling me that this whole time Yahoo! Music Launchcast has been deactivated?! Please clarify and end my misery.

[Faye23]

Todd, Sorry. I am referring to the Yahoo! Music Launchcast that is an add-on for Yahoo Messenger.

[ReVeLaTeD]

So...
If you record songs from this, is it considered piracy? Or fair use like a radio?

Hmm...