{"id":2477,"date":"2010-12-04T11:17:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T19:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:59:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:59:41","slug":"tubeify-turns-youtube-into-a-streaming-music-service-sign-up-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/tubeify-turns-youtube-into-a-streaming-music-service-sign-up-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Tubeify Turns YouTube Into A Streaming Music Service, Sign Up Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Tubify\"<\/a>Tubeify<\/a> is a simple concept, turn YouTube into a streaming music service. It is a mashup of YouTube and Last.fm. Type in a artist and Tubeify<\/a> returns all results and related artists. Click on a album title and the results are filtered to just that album. Hit play and listen to the song, and watch the video in the corner. Like what you are listening to click on Share. Simple to use and fast in execution.<\/p>\n

How long before some label or other company shuts this down? No idea, but enjoy it now.<\/p>\n

Direct link to request a invite is http:\/\/www.tubeify.com\/invitations\/<\/a><\/p>\n

This weekend\u2019s time waster.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fad.\u00a0 A program to be superseded like spell checkers were incorporated into word processors, like Microsoft wrote its own browser to kill Netscape.\u00a0 But right now, IT FEELS SO GOOD!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the story.\u00a0 A guy wrote a program that searches YouTube and Last.fm and creates a Web-based Spotify.\u00a0 Free.\u00a0 Until the rights holders find some way to tear it town.\u00a0 Soon.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, you need an invitation.\u00a0 But if you had one you\u2019d be e-mailing absolutely everybody you know, you wouldn\u2019t be able to sign off, your significant other would be begging you come to bed, you\u2019d be forgoing meals, SINCE IT\u2019S SO DAMN COOL!<\/p>\n

First level:\u00a0 Popular In The U.S.<\/p>\n

Imagine a chart where you could see what everybody else is listening to and hear it immediately.\u00a0 The rights holders\u2019 worst nightmare. They want you to WAIT!\u00a0 As if every time you clicked on a link in your browser you had to wade through a commercial.\u00a0 Better yet, if the Internet was not interactive at all, if you could only watch it, like television.<\/p>\n

We live in a social, networked world.\u00a0 I ain\u2019t gonna tune in your radio station and listen to your music, but I will fire up Tubeify and play a few snippets of what you\u2019re listening to JUST TO BE CLUED IN, JUST TO KNOW WHAT\u2019S GOING ON!<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not the true attraction, that\u2019s not why I\u2019m writing this.\u00a0 The secret sauce is Time Travel.<\/p>\n

Come on, you do this all the time in your mind.\u00a0 Into the past.\u00a0 And what do they say, music is the soundtrack to your life?\u00a0 What if you could instantly jet back to yesterday and listen to those songs you know so well from the radio.<\/p>\n

Of course you can do this yourself.<\/p>\n

You can buy a Joel Whitburn book, search “Billboard” charts online\u2026and then surf to find the specific tracks.\u00a0 Which will take you fucking FOREVER, to the point where you won\u2019t.\u00a0 That\u2019s the key to Tubeify.\u00a0 By making it easy, by giving it context, it makes music FUN!<\/p>\n

You remember FUN, right?\u00a0 That thing that puts a smile on your face?\u00a0 That makes you feel great about being alive?<\/p>\n

So, after logging into Tubeify and clicking on “Top Charts With Time Travel” on the right-hand side of your browser window you\u2019re confronted with\u2026<\/p>\n

Are you a Mac user?<\/p>\n

Please, if you\u2019re not, buy a machine, it\u2019s pretty cheap, then you\u2019ll know what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n

Macs have a backup feature entitled “Time Machine”.\u00a0 You hook up an extra hard drive and it automatically backs up your computer. Entirely.\u00a0 Hell, you can even do it wirelessly!\u00a0 Believe me, it pays, my Seagate crashed two months ago\u2026<\/p>\n

Anyway, when you launch Time Machine, on the right-hand side of the screen you see a timeline\u2026\u00a0 The Tubeify timeline is identical. You navigate to the era you want to investigate.<\/p>\n

Let me put it this way.\u00a0 Do you want to see\/hear the top hits of any fucking era of your LIFETIME?<\/p>\n

2010 is winding down.\u00a0 The days are short and in a winter mood I\u2019m reflecting, and I go back to 1966 and\u2026<\/p>\n

I hear all the songs that were hits then.<\/p>\n

Then 1965.<\/p>\n

And the memories are flowing back.\u00a0 Songs I know but don\u2019t think about.\u00a0 Jay & the Americans\u2019 “Let\u2019s Lock The Door (And Throw Away The Key)”?\u00a0 THAT WAS A HIT WHEN WE WERE AT THE CONCORD!<\/p>\n

My parents were burned out on Vermont, when we went over Christmas the skiing got rained out.\u00a0 So they booked us into this Catskills venue with a piss-poor ski area and tons of other activities.\u00a0 Like a nightclub.\u00a0 Outside of which they played tunes, LIKE THIS ONE!<\/p>\n

P.S. It rained and we lost a day of skiing anyway!<\/p>\n

Better yet is “I\u2019m A Believer”.\u00a0 That was a hit at Christmastime 1966. I STILL HAVEN\u2019T BURNED OUT ON IT!<\/p>\n

Shit, I\u2019m listening to Sam the Sham, Paul Revere\u2019s “Good Thing”, “Downtown”, this is cooler than any movie, any TV show, IT\u2019S FUCKING FANTASTIC!<\/p>\n

You see we live in an era of chaos.\u00a0 And Tubeify makes it comprehensible.<\/p>\n

The rights holders shouldn\u2019t kill it, they should AUTHORIZE IT!\u00a0 Load it up with ads, make a killing during its brief lifetime, before it\u2019s superseded by something else, like everything is online.\u00a0 Did you read that MySpace is for sale?<\/p>\n

Warner complained that Activision was paying too little for “Guitar Hero” songs.\u00a0 And now “Guitar Hero” IS DEAD!<\/p>\n

Online is not about saying no, it\u2019s about saying YES!<\/p>\n

I know, that\u2019s hard to fathom for people who need order, who insist on control.\u00a0 But we lost control ten years ago, when everybody got a high speed connection and went in his own direction, willy-nilly.\u00a0 Embrace the new world.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing in any other art form to compete.\u00a0 You couldn\u2019t have a Tubeify of movies or television, it just wouldn\u2019t work, they\u2019re long form art forms.\u00a0 Whereas music is BITE-SIZED!<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll spread like wildfire.<\/p>\n

But the rights holders will kill it.<\/p>\n

Spotify embraces Facebook.\u00a0 Everything\u2019s coming together as opposed to falling apart.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking at a chart from 1965, week 6.\u00a0 Number 1 is “You\u2019ve Lost That Lovin\u2019 Feelin\u2019”.\u00a0 But number 2 is “Downtown”!\u00a0 I won\u2019t pull\u00a0 it up independently, but in context, as a memory of junior high school, IT KILLS!<\/p>\n

Ditto for Jewel Akens\u2019 “The Birds And The Bees”, number 40 this week.<\/p>\n

“Goldfinger” is number 85.\u00a0 Remember lining up to see this movie?\u00a0 Remember when they flipped the pool table over to reveal a model of Fort Knox?<\/p>\n

“He Was Really Sayin\u2019 Something”\u2026\u00a0 I haven\u2019t heard this in DECADES!<\/p>\n

And not only is there the chart numbers, but a popularity rating, so those who may not have been alive back then can see what really is the fan favorite, chart numbers don\u2019t always tell the story.\u00a0 Number 1 is “I Feel Fine”!\u00a0 And you can see the YouTube clip RIGHT IN THE WINDOW!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like I\u2019m right back in Connecticut, in 7th Grade.\u00a0 I can see the halls of my junior high, family vacations, people who are dead have come back to life.\u00a0 THIS IS FANTASTIC!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.tubeify.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n

Tubeify For Everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n

Go to: http:\/\/www.tubeify.com\/invitations\/<\/a>Enter your e-mail address and click on “Request Invitation”.<\/p>\n

You will get this message: “Thank you! We will send you an invite when more are available.”<\/p>\n

IGNORE IT!<\/p>\n

Wait approximately 60 seconds and check your inbox (or spam folder) for a code and link and then sign up!<\/p>\n

Tubeify also works as a regular jukebox, you can enter any act and play all of its material (at least all that Tubeify can find!)\u00a0 You can also search for individual songs.<\/p>\n

Play now and SMILE!<\/p>\n

P.S. As a little birdie e-mailed me, CONTEXT IS KING!<\/p>\n

P.P.S. You can drag on the handle (the two diagonal black lines) in the upper right-hand corner of the video (at the edge of the white border, next to the title) in order to grow it big, as large as you want.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

via Lefsetz Letter \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Tubeify<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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