The big elephant in the room here is that most of Blip.fm’ music catalog was being sourced from SeeqPod, and by now we know what kind of trouble that company is in (although they might still be saved by Microsoft).
Blip.FM used to plug into the seeqpod API to find it’s music, but with seeqpod hitting the rocks it looks like plan A is bust.
Plan B - a glorified interface for Imeem is not great. But what is the problem?
In my humble opinion this is yet another symptom of the music industry’s hell bent intention to self destruct. Clinging to ideas of territories, selling copies and exploiting interlectual property, it seems that the industry is willing to do anything to avoid having to man up and tke on the web. By crippeling a great music discovery tool they have shot themselves in whatever is left of their already shot to hell foot. Quite how potential fans are supposed to find out about new music without hearing it from a trusted source (like a real person rather than an algorithem) is beyond me.
(via thisisreallyneat)
(via artistspaid)
