Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Yahoo Releases Beta Version of Yahoo Music
Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple iPhone & iPod Touch" @ 08:00 AM
"Yahoo today unveiled a reworked, public beta version of Yahoo Music that significantly changes the company's philosophy on content. The new version serves as a central hub for third-party music services and will let users buy songs from a number of sources, including Amazon and iTunes. It likewise collects Internet radio streams from Last.fm and Pandora as well as music videos on YouTube."
The beta site will also use a recommendation engine of some kind, grouping relevant music and videos into a single area. They estimate about 500,000 artists will be in the library, which according to the article is about twice the number as the previous version of the Yahoo music site. Poor sales ended the previous version so I guess being an aggregator of sorts is more appealing.
