Record Radio Channels from the Internet with Chilirec

Chilirec is an exciting service I've tested today that allows you to record hundreds of radio channels from the Internet. All you have to do is to browse through the channels, find music that you like, and create playlist that you can relisten to over and over. The music is stored on your personal Internet space, and will not require any disk space on your computer.


When you start your recorder it will begin to record radio channels on Internet. Your music will be saved in a personal directory on Internet. So Even if you'll choose not to create playlists, all the music from the chosen channel, automatically saved.

Although I was very impressed by its performance, I was a bit confused with how am I supposed to know which music I actually have on my directory. Apparently, I will be able to search within the directory by an artist, title or genre, and get top-lists - but it will be presented only after a day or two when the recorder has been active long enough...

Right now recording is in progress, and I have more than 2,900 songs saved in my directory already.

Crazy!



Is it legal?
Chilirec works exactly like a traditional recorder device, but it is virtual and the songs are saved in a personal Internet folder. You will start your personal recorder yourself. All the songs that you collect will be individually marked with recording time, radio channel and identity. If you save a personal copy on your local disk, you can right-click on it and select properties to view this information tag. Chilirec relies on an advanced technical patent pending solution for personal radio recording on Internet.

Update: Saving music even if browser is closed. 25,000 songs and still counting...
More at Techcrunch.

Adobe Media Player- The Future of Entertainment

Adobe Media Player software provides control and flexibility to view what you want, when you want - whether online or offline. You can queue up and download your favorite Internet TV content, track and download new episodes automatically, and manage your personal video library for viewing at your convenience.

Since their last version (October 2007) there have been minor changes to the user interface such as highlighting features on the home page and in the catalog.

I've checked this player long time ago, but probably was not aware of its qualities back then. This is why I was surprised to find their HUGE list of content, and the Flashon web channel.

About the content list:
Adobe features a broad catalog of shows from leading media companies and networks, as well as independent producers. You can quickly find the shows you want to see by searching the network name, title, genre, or even by keywords. On their top content list you can find shows from: MTV, blip.tv, CBS, Comedy Central, Mytoons, Univeral, and many more.

About Flashon Channel:
A flexible 3D interface for choosing and watching video online. Within one click you'll be able to subscribe to the content in this channel, and watch the included shows from your Media Player. (not working so good on Firefox)
Most of the shows are available to watch in offline mode as well as online.



Missing features:
Unfortunately you won't be able to share anything from the player outside. Couldn't even find the option to recommend a channel, or a show, to friends by email.




Is the Adobe Media Player any Good?


Bottom-line, Adobe is doing a great use of their AIR technology. This product experience is beyond expected.

New Way to Discover Stuff on the Web

Fichey is a little player that float on top of the page and lets you navigate and discover new sites and links from the Web. Display search results from : Del.icio.us, Digg, Downfly, Reddit and StumbleUpon.

This small, yet powerful tool, allows you to stay updated with the latest hot news on the Web. Definitely one of the coolest things I've saw lately.



More on TCblog.

Explore & Share Music with your Friends

Ezmo is a Web based music player that makes it easy for a group of friends to share music.
The music player is online rather than on your computer. (Built with Adobe Flex technology to allow a better and unique user experience)
The music is played directly from the web site. It means that once you use Ezmo, you have your and your friends music available wherever you find a computer with an internet connection.

First thing that you'll need to do is to upload music to Ezmo. The easiest way to do this is to download their "Music uploader". If you wish to only upload a couple of songs, use the "Manual Upload" button in the top bar. After the uploading you can enjoy your music and share it with 10 of your friends. You're doing this simply by sending them invitations and when an invitation has been accepted your friends will appear in your music column. Then you can listen to what your friends uploaded and they can listen to yours. Ezmo also allows you to create playlists from your own songs.

Ezmo music uploader


Although the concept is good, the player looks great, and when it worked, the streaming was not bad, still it was hard for me to test this because it was just too slow to use.
But hey, this new service is online for less then 24 hours so I'll give them the chance to prove I'm wrong :-)

Invite your friends

Listen to your friends music

A New Web-Based Music Player - Awesome one!

A great new online music player called Spool.fm, allows you to search for all your favorites music and easily to create playlists from the results of that. You'll be able to hear those playlists over and over on the Web. No download required.

Spool.fm built with Ajax, and have a lot of sexy features such as:

• Easy drag & drop to create playlists
• Similar artists recommendations
• Listen with a friend -which allows you to listen in real time to what a friend is listening to!

Listen with a friend


On my daily basis I'm using Radioblogclub as one of my favorite services.
If Spool.fm will stay stable and quick as it is now, I'm definitely going to keep on using them as well.

There is one important feature missing though: The option to embed a song or a playlist to your site/blog.

Still a great application, I've really enjoyed using it.