Moof | iTunes Meets YouTube
Moof (music, online, on-demand, for free) is another entry into the seeming very crowded online music delivery service area. Again, Moof works much like iTunes but-on-the-web, claiming to have ‘all the functionality of a full desktop media player, in your browser.’ So, of course, it enables you to create a library, playlists etc. as well as allowing you to import your existing xml music libraries (like iTunes). All of that means you can search for and listen to any song you like from your library and/or online, on-demand, whenever you want – for free.
So how does Moof deliver anytime on – demand, for free?
The answer to that is simple: YouTube.
Moof delivers you tracks by connecting to and searching YouTube. Yup, it plays you the music from videos. The bottom-left of the player even has the corresponding video playing. As we all know YouTube has a lot of music (like millions of it), but that means there’s a fair bit of sifting required to get through it all and, unless you are very specific with your search, Moof pulls in stuff that isn’t technically music. Plus the quality isn’t always that good – which could well be a bit of a barrier…
Moof is an interesting idea and it has it’s good points, but does the YouTube integration really add anything to the end experience that its competitors/simply searching YouTube can’t offer? I’m not convinced.
What is interesting is this as a further example of YouTube’s ever increasing hold over the music ‘industry’.
Before I move on, there is one thing that you certainly can’t mark Moof down on – and that’s this awesome super-user friendly entry form:
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