Comments on: Sponsor post: Search, Mix & Play with Songza

By: deepak

deepak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:23:50 +0000

i don’t know they are asking about paying for every songs play on songza website but

how they are earning money from there website after all they are providing free service …

and they are using you tube and other site videos then to whom they are paying ?????

can any one have an idea about it ………………….. :-)

By: vincent

vincent — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:32:16 +0000

songza is good but you can take the song and put it on your ipod now can you make that wrok

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By: MMA

MMA — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:55:47 +0000

Samuel you are spot on. But as I summed it up - great for casual listening when you have a craving for a particular song or album.

By: Bobby Ross

Bobby Ross — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:30:26 +0000

Checkout www.flashwidgetz.com it is pretty similar to songza but just a lot better.

By: giles

giles — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:34:47 +0000

or perhaps more simply, spot the same typos!! (I searched for 'Perfect Day', and one of the entries was: 'varoius artists', just as it is in YouTube.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:01:37 +0000

Nice...thanks for sharing.

By: Jeff O'Hara

Jeff O'Hara — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:32:33 +0000

I met Aza Raskin, the mind behind songza, at TechCocktail in Chicago a couple weeks back, and he seems like a very cool guy and even exchanged a few e-mails with him. After meeting him, i looke online to check out what else this kid has done and was quite amazed. Check out his wikipedia profile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin , he is tech legacy. According to wikipedia his father started the Macintosh project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin . This is some pretty insightful reading.

By: michaelportent

michaelportent — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:37:32 +0000

It seems to be the age of instant gratification music services. Lord knows how long it'll take the RIAA to rain down a crapstorm on these people, but it sure is cool to see great tunes at the click of a mouse. Lala.com is another cool site that also allows you to sync the contents of your iPod for streaming anywhere.

By: shashib

shashib — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:50:59 +0000

Om,

Great discovery . You a Rishi Rich fan too ? I treid to test it extremely by asking for Daler mehndi and mehsopuria - even hema sardesai. Songza delivered. of course it had no results when I used my name ( of course I haven't sung any songs) and I am happy it did not offer any alternatives.

Thanks,

Shashi

By: watts22

watts22 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:53:35 +0000

I've been using Songza for a couple of weeks now and I must say I'm very impressed. The thing that really got ne hooked was the super-simple interface. I can't recall another web-based service that makes it so easy to rate (thumbs 'up' or 'down') and add tunes to a playlist.

Such a simple little interface it makes you wonder why no one has executed the idea before... but that's exactly what's so good about it - the best ideas are always like that.

If you haven't had a play around yet, then you really should!

By: whatwasitodo

whatwasitodo — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:01:09 +0000

what about Deezer? It does the same thing as Songza…only better. http://www.deezer.com

By: Deepak

Deepak — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:08:19 +0000

Any engine that knows Shri, whom I have had the pleasure of seeing play bass (and he is absolutely amazing) and tabla on more than a few occasions is a must check. That said, I am picky about quality, so if that is below par I don't see myself staying with Songza

By: Mezeri

Mezeri — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:03:38 +0000

pretty cool stuff

By: hobnobLover

hobnobLover — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:09:22 +0000

Hey Mr. Malik.

Hope the Thanksgiving went well for you!

I don’t know why, but for some reason I feel the songs “somehow” directly come from YouTube, as they already have an options called watch on YouTube + the quality is kind of flv to mp3 quality, if you know what I mean.

Well, the best proof I just found is this:
If you have firebug, then you’ll know what’s really going on behind the scenes.
When the Web site loads, there’s one call to “top” file. The returned data is in JSON format. Look at the “id” tag. Now go to YouTube. In the YouTube url, replace the watch parameter with this id, and you’ll see a video show up.
For example, right now the top song is: Faizal Tahir, and the id is: 5UqJ0IpZuyQ. So, the YouTube url would be: http://youtube.com/watch?v=5UqJ0IpZuyQ and so that Faizal Tahir video shows up.

Sorry to blow the bubble, but songza, in my opinion is still a great service to find songs quickly, so, I guess, keep it up!

hobnobLover.
http://www.hobnobLover.com/

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:59:19 +0000

Samuel you are spot on. But as I summed it up - great for casual listening when you have a craving for a particular song or album.