Jukefly
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Yet another "social networking" music site for you to try and forget about 2 days later. This one is called Jukefly and borrows a lot from Napster but is actually legal. You install the small client and select your music folder to populate the library. At this point you can listen to your music from any computer with an internet connection. Here is how it works, you either have a 2nd computer running 24/7 as the music server or you leave your primary computer on all the time. If you have a router/firewall you may need to modify some ports to allow traffic but that isn't too hard. The software is designed to look for an open port and with most people this should be fine since many router users don't lock down their networks.
Just with each and every other social networking site, you have the ability to add friends and look at/listen to other collections. The music is streamed from your computer and not stored to any servers which is how it stays legal. Some of the problems I have with this revolves around leaving your computer on 24/7 or setting up a 2nd pc. Besides that you have your library or whatever part of it you want open to the public. Call me paranoid but I really don't want to give everyone a look at my music and who's to say that the RIAA won't be snooping around. Just a little TMI for me. You then have the bandwidth issue with strangers streaming from your library which can slow down your internet connection. I havn't been able to find out any information on this and it may not be as big of an issue unless you have multiple people pulling from you.
It's a good idea but if I have to give everyone in the world access to my library just so I can listen to my music for free, its not worth it.
http://www.jukefly.com/
Instead I prefer Finetune, a great site that is easy to use and can be accessed from any computer. You don't use your own music, its all provided and you build your own playlists from the music available. There are some rules, you cannot have more than 3 songs from an artist but that's fine since it forces you to become a bit more diverse in your selections. I have built a playlist of over 350 songs and continue to add to it whenever the mood strikes. I have it linked on my blog and by hitting play its my own personal jukebox whenever I want. I can't control the order but since I selected the songs I am usually interested in listening to them.
Finetune doesn't cost a thing and you are not giving up your own library and bandwidth to strangers. There have been a few songs not listed but I just move on and find something else.
http://www.finetune.com/
Posted by mardenhill 2/17/2008 11:21:00 AM
Labels: Music, Technology
We're adding Privacy options so no one can see your music. This will be done soon.
JukeFly only works with your ID3 tag Artist/Genre/Title/Album/Year. Not much concern for the RIAA. You can't P2P copy music with JukeFly.
We also will soon have upload mode, so you can send up the songs of the playlists to the server so your computer at home can be offline and you can still listen from work, like a really advanced music locker.
What you see now is just the beginning of JukeFly. There's much we're keeping a tight lid on until ready as far as features go. :-)
Obviously we're not doing a good enough job explaining all of this to our users, we'll have to figure out a quick efficient way to deliver this information when people are on the site.
Thanks for giving it a try :-) We're working hard on our new features and update our blog frequently with updates (http://jukefly.com/blog)
- Jeff
It's not hard of course to just specify a port, but we're trying to be a bit fancier than that.
Shortly put, it'll be done soon. Check http://jukefly.com/blog for updates.
Thanks.