Yahoo recently announced that they are discontinuing their music service. I can switch to Rhapsody. Wow, no thanks. Yahoo is doing a great thing, offering refunds or DRM free versions of songs you purchased.
On the other hand (I have 2), this really upsets me because I used to use Music Match. Anybody else use that? I loved it. It had everything I wanted. Rip in multiple formats, burn quickly, and not a single album cover was missing. Then Yahoo had to go and buy MusicMatch, and killed it, and forced me to switch to Yahoo music player.
Yahoo can't find art for about half of my albums. And windows media player. About one-third of my albums have no art. Oh sure, I can go find the art and cut and paste it into the icon. But why do I have to do that? Is it some other form of piracy that the RIAA has deemed unacceptable use? Can't Microsoft hire some minimum wage (or less nowadays) summer intern looking for a cool job to go out and scan and find all the album art?
Google... Here is your next great tool with lots of potential for advertising revenue... Search and find and categorize and link all music album art since 1909. Or whenever the first album was sold commercially. Trivia: The first collection of records to be called an "album" was Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite
How hard can that be for the google terabillamillicentigoogol server farm? Heck, I'd even be willing to pay 10 cents per hit. 1000 albums, that is 100 bucks. Why not, I've already paid the music industry 3 times for just about every album I have.
How about an album art service for a useful web search app?
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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