Youtube for videos ...bluetunes for audios
With Bluetunes u can directly upload your mp3 and listen it any time streaming
BlueTunes is a new service that allows you to upload your own music and then stream it from anywhere you have an internet connection. This has been tried before and the companies were abruptly stopped and then sued by the RIAA. This new service is differentiating itself by only allowing you to stream the music you first upload to its site.
It’s not the first time users could upload their music to the cloud and listen to it anywhere. Michael Robertson’s MP3.com tried it in 2000 and was promptly sued for copyright infringement. They lost, shut down the service and settled for $200 million.
Robertson was back in 2005 with a different take on the service called MP3Tunes. EMI sued MP3Tunes as well, but isn’t doing so well in court this time around.
The reason MP3.com lost the suit was because users weren’t actually uploading songs. Instead, they simply put a CD in their drive to prove they owned it (or at least had it for a few minutes). MP3.com, which already had a copy of all songs on its servers, then gave the users access to the songs online. Great idea, but the courts said no way.
MP3Tunes, by contrast, makes users actually upload every song they want to listen to online. Back in 2005 I tried the service and gave up after repeated crashes, but other people have said the service works fine. Still, in a time when you can listen to virtually any recorded song legally and for free on MySpace Music, Last.fm and iMeem, going to all the trouble of uploading those songs seems like a bit of a waste of time.
BlueTunes is opting for the MP3.com-type model. They say they have a “next generation uploader (patent pending)” that uploads songs “in a fraction of the time that it would normally take.” But the secret behind the upload is that songs aren’t really being uploaded if someone else has already done it.
This sounds like a great idea if you need more space for your music and a quick backup solution. The question is, will this be shut down and will there be any repercussions to its users. It looks like they have covered all of their bases so why not use it while it is here.
