Friday 3 September 2010

mixtape/playlist sites: BLIP.FM

www.blip.fm - internet radio made social



+ blip is a combination of a song and a short message that accompanies it

+ the user begins by creating an account with blip and entering music they are interested in, blip then searches its members to find people who are also interested in the same music, these become your fellow DJ friends

+ the user can add a song and a short message which is then submitted to the social network of their choice and to blips feed which includes other DJs with similar music tastes. This is called "blipping"

+ badges and rewards are given to you by blip when you pass stages, this encourages the user to "blip" more often

+ you are classed as a"DJ" instead of a member

+ you can give fellow DJers "props" which are like tokens of respect for submitting good blips (shown by a thumbs up icon)

+ works with twitter, facebook, friendfeed, tumblr, livejournal, audioscrobbler and ping.fm

+ songs you submit are taken from all over the internet - you search for a song and the url is then added to the blip to play. Videos of the song are sometimes played too.

+ ID3 tags (if available) are taken from the music files when a user searches

+ playlists can be created

+ before songsa appear in the search results they are passed through a flash player and tested to ensure the song is available


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