Things to do:
-Support other media formats
-Open a long-tail store, i.e. letting people upload and give out their work
-Make a better uploader (mine seems to be blocked at work)
[New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
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Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
#22Cool. Is legal precedent such that this is definitely legal?
Yeah, this seems to be the only question. The interface is wonderful and it's instantly useful to me, but I can't imagine this will be allowed to stand as is. Though I would have said the same thing about YouTube...
Hey guys - This is Sachin chiming in from the Anywhere.FM team. So we are a legit service. There are several digital music locker services that allow you to upload your music and play it anywhere. This model has been followed by all these companies and is allowed because you are playing your own music online. In terms of the sharing and Friend Radio features, we are actually paying radio station licensing fees to the music industry.
Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Fortune favors the brave" and all that. They're setting themselves up to be wildly popular and in a deep financial crisis at the same time. I guess it beats obscurity. Let the VC gods lift up their countenance upon them!
Seems like a good strategy for raising money quickly. The Techcrunching certainly doesn't hurt. Of course, the site is down as a write this.
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#24oh i absolutely love this app. fantastically well executed.
i had implemented a version of this - nowhere close to as pretty - for our internal use at CMU (our group still actively uses it), but i am going to switch now. please, please allow bookmarking of songs soon (just noting the metadata of course.) cause there's lots of quality stuff to be discovered soon!
Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
#25Thanks for the comments and feedback everyone! We've had a few rough patches over the past 12 hours, but we're up and running again (special thanks to the Dropbox team for their help). As a random aside, it turns out we're getting far more traffic from del.icio.us than TC right now.
Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
#26Songs are being uploaded by the second already. Looks like a winner!
Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
#27Thanks for all your valuable feedback and comments, it is really motivating :).
Now some advice I wish I followed... sleep a LONG time the day before you launch ;).
Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
#28We've re-enabled using the client uploaders to bulk-upload music.
Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
#29Thanks for the comments and feedback everyone! We've had a few rough patches over the past 12 hours, but we're up and running again (special thanks to the Dropbox team for their help). As a random aside, it turns out we're getting far more traffic from del.icio.us than TC right now.
Yay, dropbox. They're good guys.
Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
#30Thanks for the comments and feedback everyone! We've had a few rough patches over the past 12 hours, but we're up and running again (special thanks to the Dropbox team for their help). As a random aside, it turns out we're getting far more traffic from del.icio.us than TC right now.
Unfortunately, your post was knocked off the top spot on TechCrunch pretty quickly with other stories. Congrats on the launch - this is a great product.