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mdoeff — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:54:06 -0000

TechCrunch has picked up this story: http://urltea.com/2gix

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Andrew — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:31:32 -0000

Bijan: thanks for passing on the sad news. It makes Rhapsody seem as dumb as... a major record label. More at:
http://changingway.org/2008...

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bijan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:49:02 -0000

Good info. Thanks dan

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Dan Kantor — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:23:20 -0000

A horrible day indeed. Not only was Yotta a great front-end to a giant music library, it was also a pioneer on building atop Amazon web services (S3, EC2, SimpleDB). I am sure whatever Luke does next will be great. Bijan - you are right, Luke did not really use Rhapsody's public web services. He reverse-engineered the player engine. I am surprised this has happened since he originally had their blessing. Seems like it would have been a better idea to buy Yotta then to shut it down.

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mdoeff — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:19:40 -0000

Another example of a company integrating with Rhapsody with a separate player is TiVo.

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bijan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:32:02 -0000

Rhapsody has a page on their site for developers.

Judging from the examples they list it seems they are okay if you use their metadata on your own site but they want you to use their player. This is only my guess based on their examples and description.

But why yottamusic is different than Sonos is unclear to me.

I'm sad.

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mdoeff — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:14:51 -0000

I'm wondering what specific features of the YottaMusic site Rhapsody felt threatened by. Rhapsody was on the right track when they released API's to access they're catalog and now they appear to be taking a huge step back when they shut down a site that successfully built a service around their API's. What kind of example does this set for other developers who want to build services around Rhapsody?

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bijan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:00:02 -0000

I know. I went to the site today again put of habbit. This sucks.

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josh20 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:56:04 -0000

YottaMusic was the reason I signed for Rhapsody (and I am sure I wasn't the only one). It made Rhapsody more useful to me. Rhapsody has decreased their own utility by their request. Not smart.