Playlists, new samples player, web subscription playback

Posted by Lucas Gonze, July 31, 2007 at 1:16 am, in Player, Playlisting, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Yahoo! Music Website. 9 Comments

Continuing the torrential pace of new software, we have released a playlist page, a new player for thirty-second samples, and the ability to play subscription tracks in the browser. All of this software is somewhat beta.

Until a few weeks ago, when you opened a playlist created in Yahoo! Music Jukebox in the browser you were likely to get a nearly-blank white page that looked like an error message. No more. You will now see a full-featured module which includes the ability to play tracks and to comment on playlists. You can browse playlists by creator and you can browse playlists which a person has commented on, so there is a content-focused social network.

Play buttons will give you full songs if you are a Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscriber, and 30-second samples otherwise. The player is now rendered in the page rather than in a pop-up window.

Here are some playlists to help you get started:

We hope you’ll dig it.

Release notes

  • There isn’t yet a convenient way to look up a playlist URL or to your find your own playlists in the browser. If you have Yahoo! Music Jukebox you can open it up, navigating to a playlist, copy the link to the clipboard, then go to a browser and open that link. In the browser you can submit a comment on a playlist, then click on the link to your playlists in the posted comment.
  • Yahoo! Music Unlimited playback only works in Internet Explorer on Windows. In Firefox you can either use the IETab plugin or wait for our own plugin to be ready.
  • Many alpha users had to upgrade or rebuild their Windows DRM setup.
  • Sample playback works on the Mac if you have Flip4Mac installed. We could only deliver subscription tracks if Windows DRM was supported, which it isn’t, so this is blocked on the same old same old. About Linux support, we’ll do samples if we can find a reliable way to do WMA in the browser.
  • The new player is only used in the playlist pages for now. We will hook it up to the rest of the new pages soon.

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  1. Nice to see this update; however, the lack of Opera support is kind of annoying. I’m sure if you contacted their developers, they could help you find a solution. They have an entire team that helps solve these kinds of problems. (Oh, and support for the Wii would be awesome.)

    BTW, it seems I’ve been having some problems with YMJ and downloads lately. Any relationship to the site update?

    Comment by rmccabe916 — July 31, 2007 #

  2. Cool. This is the first step to more universal accessibility to YMU service and my playlists. I look forward to the day when you might be able to use this feature with Iphone and other web enabled devices.

    Optimizing this for use with Iphone is especially intriguing. It might be the holy grail.

    Problem though… I still only get 30-second song snippets even though I’m logged-in with my YMU UserID. My YMU account is active and paid-up. I even have YM To-Go. I tried this both in IE and Firefox using your sample playlists and still only get the 30-second excerpts.

    What gives…

    Comment by prbeirne — July 31, 2007 #

  3. I like it but make it work in firefox!

    Comment by velcrospud4 — July 31, 2007 #

  4. Glad to see Yahoo Music is still alive.
    Add some ratings to the web player make it sitewide and I’m happy.

    Comment by resource — August 3, 2007 #

  5. [...] Play, play, play: Yahoo! Music gives you three new reasons to press that play button! Check out the new full-featured playlist module that lets you play tracks, comment on your pals’ playlists, and browse playlists (both your’s and ones you’ve commented on). There’s also a new player for 30-second samples of songs (full songs for Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscribers) and an option to play subscription tracks in the browser. Read more here. [...]

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  6. My daughter is trying to download High School Musical 2 but keeps getting ‘download error’. Is this available for download? If not, why can’t there be something telling you that instead of the puzzling download error message. It’s stuff like this that makes YMJ so frustrating to use.

    Comment by cicero — August 25, 2007 #

  7. [...] great to see playlisting make an appearance now in Yahoo Music. The new playlist functionality was described by Lucas Gonze (founder of Webjay) as “a full-featured module which includes the ability to play tracks and [...]

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  8. “I think this is one of those cases for the labels where I would say “Be careful what you wish for”. Internet radio wont die but it will move to places offshore where artists wont get paid. Hardly a great outcome for anyone.”

    Comment by Biju015UK — October 25, 2007 #

  9. Hi. I am not sure I should post this comment in this category but anyways. I am a truly yahoo music jukebox lover but however don’t get why the player is still not compatible with the G-Force software the way Musicmatch used to be (possibilty ot have it full screen and so on). If that was the case, the player would have the nice visualization it still misses at this point, from my point of view anyways.

    Best and happy holidays!

    Comment by blabarth — December 29, 2007 #

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