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Shuffler: Turn Music Blogs Into Streaming Stations

Next Tuesday, a new crowdsourced music service is launching called Shuffler; it takes blog content and turns the songs into streaming radio stations. Also, the service queues-up the most-recently listed music first and it displays the entire post of origin below the playback controls. As compared to other sites, those that make a song's origins nearly invisible to users, this should make bloggers happy.

image from www.wired.com

"Shuffler will be free to use for up to 20 songs per channel per month, and the company plans to advertise certain blogs or bands in order to support the free version," Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired reports. "A one-time fee of $9 removes the 20-song-per-channel-per-month limit." To which one Pho-list reader, an influential music and tech industry listserv, commented, "Ha ha!  I love it!  Selling access to free content that people are too lazy to find themselves. Although if I was one of those 1600 bloggers I would be wondering "where's *my* money bitches!"

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  1. “Ha ha! I love it! Selling access to free content that people are too lazy to find themselves. Although if I was one of those 1600 bloggers I would be wondering “where’s *my* money bitches!”
    well, quite. to say nothing of the artists themselves…

  2. It would be great if the artists got paid but you can’t put a price on the free marketing and promotion they’d receive. Internet streaming is a lot different than radio. We need a different biz model for that. In what capacity would the bloggers get paid – as distributors?

  3. It’s a start – but really, the labels should have their own distribution network, and provide the blogs streaming content for free to create awareness for their acts. And not just push out songs – make it a two way street, with a feedback loop from the blogs AND consumers, ability for the blog to download artwork, bio info, photos, everything they need to promote the act, because that’s what blogs do best – instead the labels pay publicists $5000 a month to get in the long line to blow Pitchfork.
    This should be FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or better yet, the labels should PAY the blogs who get the most listeners/referrals or email subscribers to the band’s list.

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