Music recommendation engine, Blip.fm that launched last year is presently going through some serious trouble. Its CEO, Jeff Yasuda mentions about these problems in a blog post, stating that the startup will be making major changes to its service. The first and foremost is that Blip.fm will now be streaming music from Imeem, bringing with it quite a lot of limitations. This decision s primarily for those users who are outside US, which also means that Blip.fm’s major source of traffic will be deprived of enjoying the service fully. The other changes mentioned in the post are:
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Adding urls to public mp3s will be limited to legitimate bands and labels approved in our systems (you can sign up here: http://blip.fm/settings/music).
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The embeddable widget will still show blip messages, but won’t play the music in most cases.
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Where applicable, old blips will be replaced with content from the imeem catalog, but anything that doesn’t match will temporarily cease to function. We plan to add tools to allow you to correct any false matches and find replacements for unavailable tracks.
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We plan to add a preference to skip 30 second clips.
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Additional media content will be available as it is sourced via new partnerships.
The CEO hasn’t made public the reasons behind these changes, but those might be due to SeeqPod being in trouble itselg and Blip.fm generates most of its music from the service. The service itself has been doing pretty nice and the traffic has seen a continual growth over the past few months and therefore these changes are a bit of a surprise. Well lets wait and see what is the true reason behind this, we will update you in this regard the moment we learn about it.
