Really depends on where your at

I Originally made this on last year on Imeem and wanted to post it again. But as you know Imeem’s gone away. However it did make its way into myspace via the import! Nice work guys – and every song was there!
Hear it in full (log in required)
But I cant share it on my blog with myspace music, so I re-created it in Lala. Thats where the problem was. For some reason Lala doesn’t have the two killer songs (but myspace music does? so i can get it for free, but not via a paid streaming service??)
First one missing on Lala was “Dustland Fairytale” (so i choose the karyoke version!) and next was “This is Your life” (so I choose a different switchfoot song with the same name because that came up first in Lala’s search!) So thanks to rights issues, here it is on Lala with a few adjustments!

My Amazon preferences don’t talk to my itunes ratings or my genius playlist. Neither of them factor in my recommended videos on you tube or vevo. My “ilike’s” don’t tie into my mog preferences…

With all this music and information I still have trouble finding quality stuff I want. And I still miss bands I should know about, or live dates from bands I love!

I’d like a way to set up a highly customizable preference/recommendation engine that followed all my music, video, movies, purchases, streams, and could form “meta recommendations” from them all. Then combine ubiquity of preferences with context (location) and the future connected recommendation experience emerges. Moving seamlessly across sites and services, I could listen to music and media on several different devices and still capture a true picture of my media and commerce behavior. Of course I’d want strong privacy setting that allowed me to benefit from this targeted experience, not just advertisers and merchants!

Anyone working on anything like this? Anyone else want it?

Im excited to be working with DEVO! I am starting on a new project with the band, who is back with Warner Bros Records after many years! Its a brand new model for the business, the band, and WBR.

Watch DEVO inc. CEO Greg Scholl’s first communique now!

Part one of a playlist series highlighting Artist’s from Coachella 2010!

FIND MIX WATCH. That’s the tagline for You Tubes “Music Discovery Project and Playlist Creation Tool”. It’s a new tool coming out of you tubes lab that allows you to create artist based playlists of music videos. While it’s a visual playlist, it alos holds its own as an audio experience.

Just type in the name of an Artist, and an instant video playlist is created. “Mix Tape” and “Similar artist” options give you several ways to epxplore new music and shuffle the experience. You can save also various playlists. but there is no ability to individually move tracks, or share playlists. I just minimized the video and had a pandora like experience.

You tube’s size, combined with this simple tool, and suddenly you tube is a much bigger player in the online music space. This tool also deepens role in music discovery, and connecting artists and fans.
Curious to see usage numbers, and the new features I am sure will come soon.

Check it out here:

Emails went out a few days ago letting you know how to import your imeem playlists into myspace (Myspace Music acquired certain Imeem assets a few months ago).

Nice to see that myspace retained all the user and song info, and one of the first mass example of the portability of the playlist as a format:

Access your playlist by clicking here:
www.myspace.com/music/import-playlists.
You will need to be logged into MySpace.
Log in or sign up for MySpace.

2.
Enter your imeem e-mail address.

3.
Click import and we will retrieve your playlists.

4.
Upon completion, your playlists will be stored in
“My Music,” our playlist management tool. All
playlists can be identified by the name
“import_[yourplaylistname]”

If you have questions visit http://faq.myspace.com/app/home.

Pros: It worked for me with no issues and no import lag time. All of my imeem playlists showed up as private in my myspace playlist dashboard.

Cons: A few songs seem to be missing, due to rights issues, and of course I miss the embedability of imeem! I also have not gone back and replaced my imeem embeds with new links to myspace and I doubt I ever will have the time to do that. That’s an important piece of the playlist transfer they missed.

Will LALA go through a similar process when they are fully integrate into apple?

Checkout a few examples of my old imeem playlists imported into myspace:

New Urban Music 2009

2008 new music sampler

LInks to some past playlist related posts:

Imeem vs Lala Update

New Music Playlist 2009

Imeem vs Lala

Im lucky enough to work with 4 Artists on their way to the top. Watch for them to blow up in 2010.

http://www.jasonderulo.com
http://www.guccimaneonline.com/
http://www.iyazmusic.com/
http://www.thenewboyz.com

Here’s a new playlist of songs from some of my favorite Artists and Albums of 2009. I mixed a few different genres together including some of the best new music, and A+ efforts from some established Artists. Indie, quirky, and mainstream tracks, all living happily together!

After picking the tracks, I tailored it for each of the major streaming music services (a challange I will cover in next post..) and threw in an itunes imix for downloaders. Enjoy your way:

LALA: Playlist represented in full:

MYSPACE:
They don’t give a great option for embedding in blogs (the “share to wordpress” button does not work!). Also Tom Petty live “breakdown was” not in there so I replaced with “nightwatchmen” live, and Taylor Swift Breathe was not there so I replaced with the karoke version! (log in required)

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.singleplaylist&friendid=417774986&plid=1085432
(log in required)

MOG:
Found every track here as well, but this is a paid service:

http://mog.com/playlists/35440

Itunes Imix:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewIMix?id=348700889

As with any “Best Of” list, there’s alot missing – no urban or hip hop in this mix – thats next. Happy New Year!

What a way to end the year! I spent my last week in the office bringing the first Warner Bros Artist to HULU. It was a a lot of hard work by the folks at HULU and Warner to get the deal done, and all of the content ingested and ready to launch in synch with MUSE’s SNL appearance! Enjoy their live DVD right here, right now, and check out the rest on the official MUSE HULU channel!

http://www.hulu.com/muse

New stats have facebook in the top 3 for video sites. As consumers become more comfortable watching videos on facebook (most likely through embeds of other sources like you tube and hulu), Artists can effectively build their own video views in existing communities. While you tube has community features via their channels, I like the idea of facebook communities becoming another visual hub.

Facebook Ranks In Top 3 Video Sites:
The view from Y-pulse, and how this may effect hulu and myspace
New Tee Vee’s take, along with the rest of the top 10 players

So now build your community and get your video directly to them. Building a facebook community around video offers some benefits you cant get with your you tube commuity (who’s channels have limited community functionality), and allows video to become a part of the conversation already taking place.

Shakira’s Stats Don’t Lie: Facebook/Ustream Music Video Debut Is A Hit

More options! Make your own video premier – Shakira, facebook and ustream create something exciting, direct to fans, in an environment that makes it easy to pass along.

Earlier this year I helped set up a live broadcast with Ashley TIsdale on her facebook page that over 100k simultaneous viewers. Clearly facebook, with the help of established video partners like ustream, is starting to unlock the potential for Artsits’s facebook communities to become a destination for music videos, and visual interaction.