RSS For Your Ears?
Just ran across this cool aggregator. It’s called earFeeder by sonicswap. It scans your system for music and automagically detects your favorite artists. Then it generates an RSS newsfeed tailored to you. It subscribes to those feeds so you never miss anything about your favorite artists. The feed contains news, new releases, announcements of ticket presales, and more. Oh yes - it’s free.
UPDATE: Many of you have said how impressed you are with this program. How do you feel about it now that you’ve used it for a few days? Any compliments or gripes?
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8 opinions for RSS For Your Ears?
Paul M. Watson
Feb 2, 2007 at 9:39 am
I just tried this and it is really good. It works so easily. Nice find and a great use of RSS.
Cathy
Feb 2, 2007 at 9:42 am
Yes it is a great use of RSS! I like it too.
earFeeder at Chris Gallagher
Feb 2, 2007 at 1:21 pm
[…] Just spotted the earFeeder service over on afeedisborn.com. It scans your machine for any music that you might have and it then generates an RSS feeed containing news about all of the bands that you like. A very cool idea. Once it has created the set of artists that you listen to it then allows you to check or uncheck the ones that you might not really want included…. Again thats pretty cool. I decided to include them all and it gave me a massive feed which mainly included tour dates and opportunities to purchase tickets. I suspect thats the applications revenue stream. You can see below where the site is scanning my machhine for music. […]
FilipeAlvesFerreira
Feb 3, 2007 at 5:08 am
increasing rss use.
regards/Filipe
Cathy
Feb 3, 2007 at 6:58 am
Yes, Filipe - RSS is increasing in use all the time!
Administrator
Feb 4, 2007 at 10:04 am
whoa cathy this is fantastic stuff! thanks for posting this. i guess the magic word here is “free” and it makes me wonder sometimes how they actually make money
– Jayvee
Paul M. Watson
Feb 4, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Admin, monetisation could come through affiliate ticket sales.
Cathy
Feb 4, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Two things - first, this is a beta version. If it’s successful watch for a super-duper paid version.
Two - they do have a ’shopping’ page http://www.sonicswap.com/member/swap/buy_from_our_partners.jsp where they are very honest telling people that they earn a commission from the sales. I like that - they are up front about it and not flamboyant. You have to look down at the bottom of the home page to find the link to the shopping page.
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