DISQUS

Sharpshoot · 3 years ago

Would be interesting to see if this can be extended to personal pages, allowing people to pick their favorite tunes and host a widget on their myspace/bebo/netvibes/protopage pages.

Then any sales they make from the selection on their widget could be distributed as a revenue share. I think this has potential to really disseminate music amongst early adopters through social networks and could put snocap in position against other download sites.

Good to see Shawn Fanning trying to shake up the status quo again.

mitch · 3 years ago

Problem is, that widget is very similar to myspace's existing music widget and there is no reason that myspace cant offer the same thing to musicians through their service.

The one thing I always hated about developing products that rely on 3rd parties (or feeding the myspace beast) is that these 3rd parties can easily shut you out and implement the idea themselves (if it shows to be profitable). You're just doing their homework for them.

Nick Gavronsky · 3 years ago

This is definitely an interesting product. I thought Fanning had kind of disappeared off the earth. Hopefully this could be adopted by the masses on the social networking sites.

evan · 3 years ago

very cool widget - one thing though, how come they were able to get around the "allowNetworking" tag?

Aneil Weber · 3 years ago

I think the idea of selling through widgets is one of the best ways to leverage the social aspects of the web these days. In fact, one of the biggest values in a widget-based sales tactic is that it really hits the impulse-buy, heat of the moment type of sale that has been successful elsewhere. Thus far, banners, sponsored ads, popups have come close but haven't hit it this hard. I like the idea here and think we'll see a lot more of this type of thing as people get used to it. The key is to implement this for the right KIND of products and I think Music is one of them.

Mic Pringle · 3 years ago

You guys should keep an eye out for the upcoming launch of AudioBounce (http://www.audiobounce.org) as it accomodates this very principle.

The sites allows its users to create widgets detailing the music they're currently listening too, and display them on any site, be it blog, a personal site or a business site, there are no restrictions. Any album in the widget clicked on takes you to a page on the AudioBounce site where you can find out alsorts of info about the album and the band and who else is currently listening to, with also options to purchase it through Amazon, iTunes and hopefully Snocap.

The albums included are both signed artists as well as unsigned artists (such as those on CD Baby)

It's looking like a September launch, so keep your eyes peeled.

david · 3 years ago

the MySpace profile for theFormat would appear to be down. At least I receive an error when clicking on the link in the article. Perhaps a snub by MySpace? or just a technical snafu.

Bender · 3 years ago

Can this widget still work with the new Flash 9 restrictions in place?

am · 2 years ago

Wonderful Idea!

WARSOUNDZ PRODUCTIONZ · 2 years ago

TIS IS A GREAT TOOL FOR UNSIGNED BAND AND MUSICIANS TO GET PAID .....

DJ KING ASSASSIN · 2 years ago

SNOCAP IS THE WAY TO GO SAYS DJ KING ASSASSIN!

Britt · 2 years ago

A few of my favorite songs to your request.

Scott · 2 years ago

NO!!!!
Check out:
http://www.websitemusicplayer.com/
It does EXACTLY the same thing WITHOUT the middle man of SNOCAP and its HUGE fees.
With the website music player the money goes DIRECTLY to you into your PayPal account!

burgundyram · 2 years ago

SnoCap provides an excellent service on paper, however, their customer service and database interaction is a nightmare. I signed up with SnoCap in early 2007. There were a number of problems I encountered:

Song Registry

My top selling songs disapeerd for no reason from the SnoCap MyStore. I went thru all the options on the website and reviewed the help section to no avail. Most frustrating is the fact that I can see my songs in the ‘available tracks’ section, but I cant move 3 of my songs over. I’ve tried using different browsers but the problem still persist’s. I’m losing alot of potential $ because of this. Imagine the embaressment if I did a show and none of the performance tracks were available online as promised? SnoCap is also losing money by default, so I figured they would be interested in helping with this. Well, 3 emails later, refrencing three similiar problems and I stilll have not recieved on substantial reply aside from their automated response (which even states they may not reply to you -bad wording).

Software Problems

SnoCap offers software that will fascilitate downloading the songs you buy. Unfortunaltey, firewalls and pop-up blockers can easily stop the software from downloading your music, leaving you with a bill and no song. 40% of my customers have had his problem. After contacting SnoCap’s customer service for an explanation they were never given an explanation or refund.

These are just two of the major problems I see with SnoCap. Its embarrising when my customers blame me for this program not working and wondering were their money went. And keep in mind, these are just the customers I know personally!

SnoCap needs to get a better customer service system up and running because people, in my experiecne, are litterally being ripped off due to an ineffective system.

-puncho

myspace.com/burgundybeats

john · 1 year ago

I TOTALLY AGREE!! I AM GOING THRU THE VERY SAME PROBLEMS RIGHT NOW!! I HOPE YOU, I, AND OTHERS WILL BE ABLE TO HELP CHANGE SNOCAPS CUSTOMER SERVICE ASAP!! THANK YOU, FOR YOU!!!john

markus · 2 years ago

cool myspace

nancy · 2 years ago

sexy musica

WENEISHA · 2 years ago

WAT UP

cangri · 2 years ago

go ADD las cangris de daddy yankee too my page OFFICIAL FAN CLUB

marz · 2 years ago

cool! www.improponibili.com

Roxie · 1 year ago

I had almost exactly the same problem! Terrible customer service, my songs never showed up, after almost a week I sent an e-mail telling them about it, and got an automated responce telling me to check the FAQ, it's not so big that they can't actually read all of their e-mails, there are even employees just for e-mail in some companies. I've dealt with major (much more mature) cosmetic and clothing companies that are more help than they are.

Gutta aka Glou · 1 year ago

wats good? get at me

caliboi · 9 months ago

I have a player on my myspace and i cant even get the fu#kr off!

Blondiesoul · 2 months ago

I was having the same problem as you are having - Finally, I googled the issue and got a random answer from who knows where. On Myspace, go to "My Account", then to "Miscellaneous". Scroll down to music player and deselect "Show music player on my page (this is for Snocap only). After you click the "Save all Changes" button, you'll notice something VERY strange! The option to turn it back on disappears. I don't know what went down with Myspace and Snocap, but I'm thinkin' it couldn't have been good. :o)
Hope that helped!