MusicMobs Launches with Rhapsody Playback

The playlist sharing community MusicMobs just launched their site with Rhapsody playback of all their playlists.  There are thousands of playlists that you can peruse and play.  The site matches that playlist with Rhapsody via the Data.xml API and plays back all available songs in the Rhapsody Web Player.  Toby had this to say about Rhapsody:

"Lately we’ve been pretty excited about Rhapsody. We’ve always wanted to provide a way to open playlists into a music subscription service but until now, no APIs were mature enough. The new Rhapsody Web Services API offered a great way to link into their service and play the majority of the songs in any playlist on the web." (MusicMobs Blog)

To play songs, simply pick a play list, then find the play button with the Rhapsody logo.

That's where the magic really happens. 

At that point a new browser window will open and an a little animation with entertain you while MusicMobs matches the songs in the play list with the Rhapsody Content IDs.  The application first looks to see what matches are available in its data cache, then it starts hitting Data.xml, the Rhapsody REST API, to fill in the gaps  (Example Data.xml: Album, Artist).  The application seems to match about half of the songs right now, but that will surely improve over time.

    
Once the songs are matched, playback starts in the same window.

I know MusicMobs has even more plans for Rhapsody integration in his site, so we'll watch for that.  In the meantime, enjoy this great site and find some new music.

--Dave Hanley

 

Comments

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[ted byars]

this is well and good, I'm glad I can stream my rhapsody music, but how do I use my to go account, I haven't found a way to transfer music to my MP3 player

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