http://ymusicblog.com/blog Digital music products Weblog from the team at Yahoo! Music Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:56:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you use Internet Explorer, please give the new FoxyTunes 2.0 Beta a test. For a rundown of the features, see the team's blog post. If you're at the other end of the user curve and testing Firefox 3, we have a version for you, too. And if you're just a ... http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2008/03/10/new-foxytunes-20-beta-for-ie/ There are some fairly significant and exciting changes in the new build of Yahoo! Media Player. Prettying up The changes that users will notice the most have to do with visible behaviors. Smaller footprint The player is now minimized when first loaded rather than half-open. This prevents it from taking up space in ... http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2008/02/08/yahoo-media-player-release/ Last year, shortly after I assumed the role of Yahoo! Music’s General Manager, we started saying publicly that we were “de-emphasizing” our premium music offering, Yahoo! Music Unlimited. The fact of the matter is that building a great premium music service takes a huge amount of resources and effort, ... http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2008/02/04/yahoo-music-rhapsody-and-foxytunes/ When Lucas Gonze first started at Yahoo! more than two years ago, the first thing he told me was that we needed a microformat for playlisting. Since we'd just finished creating and implementing XSPF I was allergic to the idea of another format, this one in HTML instead of ... http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2008/02/03/the-yahoo-music-web-player/ Valleywag wrote a post today complaining we haven't updated this blog recently enough for their tastes. Subject line is a bit of a stretch..."months"? We did post back on Dec 18th... But yeah, it's time for an update. I admit I've been giving more love to my personal blog lately. Also, we should ... http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2008/01/24/damn-valleywag-calling-us-out/ A few months ago I posted on our release of the beta version of our new Homepage and Music Videos section. Today I'm excited to announce that we've exited beta and have made the new site available to everyone who visits music.yahoo.com. WOO-HOO!!! As I mentioned in July, this is the ... http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/11/20/our-new-homepage-and-music-videos-section/ As Jim mentioned back in July, we created a Music Videos application on Facebook that makes it easy to find and share videos with your Facebook friends. A few weeks later we teamed up with RockYou, one of the most popular developers of Facebook applications, to launch a new version that ... http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/11/13/everyone-deserves-music/ In the physical record business when you sell 500,000 albums you go “Gold”. Sell a million and you go “Platinum”. But in the age of the Internet less albums are earning these titles every year. What are going to go on the walls of the studios and above the mantles ... http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/08/29/hit-records-go-purple/ This one’s for all the haters that blogged about my hip hop speak in the Sansa Connect post a few months back... “Yo, son, you’re a beast on the mic. Why don’t you put down that broom and take it to the stage?” “Man, I been hustlin’ in this ... http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/08/18/help-write-ne-yos-next-hit/ A monumental shift in the music industry has been happening in the last few years. Yesterday’s announcement by Billboard to integrate the radio and video spins on Yahoo! Music into the Billboard Hot 100 chart marks the beginning of a new era. As of next week, the combined radio and ... http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/08/12/yahoo-music-and-billboards-hot-100-chart/