I don't see any major breakthrough with MooF. Its a simple video and audio search engine aggregator. It gets its videos from youtube and attracts a lot of unwanted materials which might need filtering.
Chris Marshall
· 4 months ago
Agreed. When services like blip.fm and ilike.com introduced content from youtube.com I felt disappointed.
mrshl
· 4 months ago
What about Lala.com? That's as close as I've seen anyone come to iTunes on the Web. Full management of your songs, ratings, playlists, and even scrobbling to Last.fm.
Does moof do any of that? Doesn't sound like it.
esjay
· 4 months ago
Lala is seconded. It also will go ahead and upload the MP3s that you have but it doesn't to its server and host/stream it for you. YouTube has a lot of music, but I know it doesn't have a version of every mp3 I own. Lala also makes it dead simple to get *new* music legally for 10 cents a song, and that's the real clincher.
Christian Mejia
· 4 months ago
I like spotify but it's not available in the states. LALA conquers in my book. The music is crystal clear and affordable. About 75% of the music in my LALA collection is directly from my hard drive. Moof, its cool and free but like you mentioned, too noisy. LALA.com gets my vote.
Interesting but I'm genuinely wondering why you didn't mention Spotify once in your article? You mention Grooveshark as it's "most direct competitor" but not one mention anywhere of Spotify?
Nathan
· 4 months ago
Is Spotify available in the US yet?
Moggy
· 4 months ago
Not yet. Though it's in closed beta in the US, with a beta release 'by the end of the year' according to an article I saw a while ago.
Although, mind you, once it is available in the US it will take the country by storm - it has here in the UK - people talk about Spotify more than iPod's or CD's. To be honest, this 'moof' service looks to me more like a copy of Spotify, but someone in the US has seen it in Europe, and has raced to release something similar before Spotify launches...
Scott Lowe
· 4 months ago
This looks nowhere near as good as Spotify. Spotify gets it's music (I think) straight from the record labels, and covers it's costs with the ads. It's junk-free, compared with moof, which looks like it will be tedious to actually find the song and unreliable as youtube music coverage is not uniform any more.
Can you get songs in the UK which youtube has taken down here due to copyright claims from Universal (or whichever music label)?
Nukirk Digi.tal
· 4 months ago
I tried using it, but I don't think it's a serious tool. Without any surprises, I doubt I'll be using it on a day-to-day basis.
Nathan
· 4 months ago
Grooveshark is very reliable with high quality streams, and, as far as I can tell, it's legal too (which is questionable when you're ripping streams from YouTube, as moof does). Any reason to think moof will ever be preferable to Grooveshark?
ron_miller
· 4 months ago
Hey Ben: Looks very interesting, but you seemed to have skirted the one big question I had when I watched their Demo video. While I love the idea of an online backup of iTunes I can access anywhere, if I can share my iTunes library with my friends online isn't that going to be a big huge red flag for the music publishers and record companies? I'm wondering if Moof gets popular how they plan to deal with this.
Nathan
· 4 months ago
You might have a look at Lala.com. Lala makes an online backup of your collection and allows you to share songs, but people you share with have to create an account and can only listen to your music a limited number of times before being required to purchase some rights (without an account, they get to hear only a snippet). At least, I think that's how it works. It's not perfect, but it works pretty well.
Chris Marshall
· 4 months ago
"Moof" Wasn't that the sound that Clarus the dogcow made?
Sam
· 4 months ago
Mad props... that's digging deep.
Chris Marshall
· 4 months ago
Thanks Sam.
I miss Clarus and think Apple should bring him back to the print dialog at least. I have just found this ADC Tech Note that features Clarus. Download Moofie to hear the sound of which I speak.
As for Moof the music player, my immeadiate thoughts (after Clarus) were, "oh no, not another..." Having read some of the comments I don't think I'll bother. I have iTunes and Spotify plus I'm a member of several musical social networks, I don't think I need Moof.
Creamy
· 4 months ago
For a web app, im pretty disgusted by its performance. The website looks as if its been created by some 14 year old, trying to add people as friends or browsing to profiles that doesnt exsist give you empty profile views, the security of the site is somewhat questionable aswell, as i have managed to obtain a user list from the database, along with password.
All in all, its a pretty bad attempt, and i advice people not to sign up.
Punit Shah
· 4 months ago
Well, some 14 year olds can create cool stuff...
Tom
· 4 months ago
Errrm, Even though it isn't available in the US (haha), Spotify is so much better. It's fantastic quality, not from youtube, free and legal. The audio doesn't differ from song to song, because its straight from the record companies. If you're comparing moof to iTunes, then Spotify's closer to it - it even looks like iTunes!!
billc124
· 4 months ago
Nice idea, but seriously flawed implementation. Most of the things that I listened to from my iTunes library were the live versions from YouTube not the album versions. If I wanted to listen to the poorly recorded live versions I would have those in my library. If you want your music online, just get a Pogoplug and set it up. The contents of the drive are online and you can stream tunes right to your iPhone through the PogoPlug app. I'll pass on Moof.
Berk Gun
· 4 months ago
So they stole the idea of fizy.com and made it better...
Joax
· 4 months ago
I have been using such this type of tools since a year ago and the one that fit my needs is www.gatunes.com, it aggregates also goear.com music... I think there is nothing new in this type of tools plus this specific one does not support IE8.
Bruce Aisher
· 4 months ago
It's a nice idea and well presented, but it's nowhere near as good as Spotify. Once Spotify reaches the U.S it will be game over for services like this.
test
· 4 months ago
test
Manuel Beck
· 4 months ago
an amazing webapp!
david
· 4 months ago
It doesnt even have a 'Help' or 'FAQ' page, let alone a way to unsubscribe! Also Im trying to upload my .XML file and I get this error (at the background of the page as if it had some CSS error while displaying the DB error)
Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/moof/public_html/upload.php(49) : eval()'d code on line 1
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_LNUMBER, expecting ')' in /home/moof/public_html/upload.php(49) : eval()'d code on line 1
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/moof/public_html/upload.php on line 62
wtf?
Adam Struve
· 4 months ago
I can't help but think a site like this is going to cause the RIAA and various other record labels to crack down on the music that is on YouTube more than they are already. Just building their mailing list and user base before the crackdown starts.
Get Free iTunes
· 2 months ago
Although I haven't tried Grooveshark yet, I gave Moof a spin and I have to say for all intents and purposes it's good, if not great, from a functional standpoint. There is the aspect where many will argue that there is nothing like owning the actual song and accessing it at it's highest quality on demand. With that said, I'd like to give Moof a thumbs-up for innovation and taking a step forward.
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Does moof do any of that? Doesn't sound like it.
http://www.lala.com/#member/17527@12755
Although, mind you, once it is available in the US it will take the country by storm - it has here in the UK - people talk about Spotify more than iPod's or CD's. To be honest, this 'moof' service looks to me more like a copy of Spotify, but someone in the US has seen it in Europe, and has raced to release something similar before Spotify launches...
Can you get songs in the UK which youtube has taken down here due to copyright claims from Universal (or whichever music label)?
Looks very interesting, but you seemed to have skirted the one big question I had when I watched their Demo video. While I love the idea of an online backup of iTunes I can access anywhere, if I can share my iTunes library with my friends online isn't that going to be a big huge red flag for the music publishers and record companies? I'm wondering if Moof gets popular how they plan to deal with this.
I miss Clarus and think Apple should bring him back to the print dialog at least. I have just found this ADC Tech Note that features Clarus. Download Moofie to hear the sound of which I speak.
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1031....
As for Moof the music player, my immeadiate thoughts (after Clarus) were, "oh no, not another..." Having read some of the comments I don't think I'll bother. I have iTunes and Spotify plus I'm a member of several musical social networks, I don't think I need Moof.
All in all, its a pretty bad attempt, and i advice people not to sign up.
Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/moof/public_html/upload.php(49) : eval()'d code on line 1
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_LNUMBER, expecting ')' in /home/moof/public_html/upload.php(49) : eval()'d code on line 1
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/moof/public_html/upload.php on line 62
wtf?