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Blip.fm partners hits speedbumps, partners with imeem
In other words, like 90% of the other web based music startups (that's a totally made up figure, by the way), Blip.fm was kind of lawsuit-bait. So it shouldn't be surprising to see that the company has made a few changes, including a partnership with music social netowrking site imeem.
Starting this week, all music available through Blip.fm is actually streaming from imeem. And that means you only get access to free and legal music. Unless you're outside of the US, in which case you probably won't be able to stream songs at all. International users can still let people know what they're listening to via short messages, but they won't be able to use Blip.fm as a music player.
It also means that old blips will be replaced with content available from imeem where possible. But if you were sharing links to music from artists that aren't in the imeem catalog, those blips will stop working.
Blip.fm is working on additional partnerships, so the media catalog could grow in time, and there may be hope for international users. But for now, it sounds like Blip.fm is going through a pretty rocky period.
[via Techcrunch]
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dion roy said 8:18PM on 5-17-2009
Nice article
Users can now search "-imeem" to filter out all the imeem library files. Hopefully this will bring a bit of life back to the blip.fm international community, as I am seeing them use it quite a bit.
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