Will ExtensionFM Allow You to Have a Music Library on the Web?
Posted on 21. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News
There’s been a lot of buzz recently about ExtensionFM, and I understand why. Many people are concerned that with the migration from powerful computers that have large hard drives that they will not be able to have access to their music library. Well, there are some upstarts that are looking to solve this problem. One of them, called the Cloud Player I spent time writing about already. Now ExtensionFM is about to bring the musical experience on your computer (and the web) up a notch.
It’s pretty straightforward, basically as a Chrome add-on ExtensionFM allows you to bookmark web locations where music files are located. An application located on the web is there so that you can organize it. Here is a demo of how it works:
So this is all fine and good, but I do have one little problem with this. It’s still hard to get your favorite music directly from the web. Sure, if you listen exclusively to indie music, you’ll be just fine. But unfortunately I grew up in a time where music was distributed by record companies – and they are still making it hard for people to listen to music when they want, where they want unless they get their cut.
Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy Pandora, Jango and I also use Lala. But am I the only that feels feature-wise that they are a bit lacking? I like what ExtensionFM is trying to do, but until the model that the major record companies are still holding onto is completely dissolved, I’m not entirely sure that this is going to be all that successful.
Compounding this problem is that ExtensionFM isn’t even available to the public yet. It’s in an invitation-only beta. So you can sign up, but you won’t be able to download and install it until they want more people to try it.
So I guess I’ll have to wait until they email me. I’m still interested – but I’m skeptical.
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Dan Kantor
22. Mar, 2010
Daniel, shoot me an email and I’ll hook you up with an invite.