From Wired News: Webjay, is a website in which users
build their own playlists of free music — like a mix tape — and share them with friends. It doesn't store the files,
but it pulls together the URLs for each track and puts them in a playlist format.
Webjay regular Brett Singer, a New York theater producer and computer consultant, builds playlists in his spare time. He's created more than 50 collections with titles like Song-a-Day, a list made up of songs he has chosen each day for the past two months. On March 28, he had a seaweed treatment, so he chose a song by the group Seaweed Soup. He picked a song called "Party Party" on the occasion of his kid's birthday party.
There isn't only music playlists. You can find Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture" read aloud by miscellaneous people: Lessig/Free Culture audiobook project.
1. Aren't there some deep linking issues with this technique... linking to mp3 files on servers who need a page view to pay for serving these files? There was a stream-search service once that got into trouble for this.
Posted at 5:55AM on Dec 19th 2005 by David Touve