Bytemarks

With the apparent demise of Muxtape, people are rediscovering Blip.FM or in my case discovering it for the first time. Where Muxtape allowed you to upload your mp3s and share it with others, Blip.FM takes it much further. In Blip.FM you can add favorite DJs and as they add music to their playlist it will show up on your Blip homepage. Also with Blip.FM you can select a song to play by answering the question “What are you listening to?” and Blip.FM will go out and find, based on what others have made available, a match. You can’t download music from Blip.FM but I am sure someone has written a hack to do the job. Perhaps as a way to appease the RIAA, Blip.FM provides a “Buy This MP3″ button that pushes you to Amazon.com. It’ll be interesting to see whether or not the RIAA will put the clamp down on Blip.FM like they did with Muxtape. I suppose it will depend on where all these MP3 uploads are being stored and whether the RIAA sees Blip.FM cutting into the royalties of copyrights holders. I hope Blip.FM survives the analysis, but in the meantime enjoy it while you can.