uPlayMe: Share Your Music Taste

By Brandon West July 3rd, 2007

uPlayme is a novel service that integrates with your media player (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.) and records your habits. As you play a song or video, you are connected to other users playing the same thing.

After signing up, uPlayme requires a fairly small software download (3MB). The software asks you if it should monitor Windows Media Player, iTunes, or your preferred media player and automatically starts tracking your media habits. As you watch or listen, it you matches you are making with other users. The other users’ profiles include their name, age, social network pages (MySpace, Facebook etc.) and the recent media they have played. If users listen to music on their portable device, the software syncs with your device and gathers the media history.

Facebook users can also add the uPlayMe application and immediately access a top 10 list of songs on Facebook, their songs, their friends’ songs and uPlayMe news. Additionally, they can invite others to join the service to begin sharing as well.

Camille

Interesting…I’m testing it right now. The annoying thing is that it keeps opening Internet Explorer pages.
Let’s see how many friends I’ll find.
http://www.realityequation.net/ livatlantis

A bit off-topic, but I remember there was a chat program called Odigo on Windows (I only switched two years back) that would show other Odigo users who are visiting the same website you are. I thought it was a nice little feature, although I didn’t use it all that much. Seems uPlayMe is built around the same concept, except now with the whole social networking jazz, it seems more appropriate. The Odigo messenger was really nice, actually, to find new people. Great UI too. With they’d continue developing it.

If I want to meet other people with the same musical tastes, I normally go to certain artists’ websites and join the forum, but I suppose for users of MySpace (or similar), this new approach might be more convenient. Although, of course, AudioScrobber’s last.fm leads in that department.

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