Today on mufin.com, we have merged what always belonged together: Discovering and listening to music at the same time. Since we launched mufin last year the most requested feature is the possibility to listen to a music track in its whole. While the sound samples give you a good first impression of a track, listening to the entire song, however, is the real deal for your ears.

And here is how it works: Like before you can prelisten a song by clicking on the big play button. If you like a track, you can search for the full length version on Youtube and SkreemR.

Just click on ‘Search full track’ to start the search. The search results will be displayed directly below the original track. If there is more than just one result, for example a ‘live version’, simply click on ‘Prev’ or ‘Next’ to browse the different versions.

You can use any track from the search results to build a playlist. If you like a mix, just save the playlist and listen to it over and over again later. So, set the playlist, ready, go!

PS: We have also released a new version of the iTunes add-ons were lots of bugs have been fixed. Download it here.

It’s been a little more than a week now since we launched the mufin player, and we have been getting a ton of feedback from you guys. We really appreciate all the input you have been sending us – keep it coming! We’re currently going through all the emails and tweets, but so far it seems many of you would love to have a mufin player for Mac and Linux. We haven’t decided on the platforms we’re going to support in the future yet, but right now we’re working on making our iTunes add-on available on the Mac. The mufin player beta itself works perfectly of course has quirks here and there, with some of you having issues with logging in at mufin.com. We’re checking the cause of this problem, as with all the other bugs you sent in.

Regarding proxy settings: The integrated browser uses the same proxy settings  as your Internet Explorer.  However, loggin into mufin.com or getting music recommendations from mufin.com behind a proxy is not possible (yet).  However, no Internet connection is required for using soundsort a.k.a organize by sound a.k.a recommendations from your local music collection. We’re now working on incorporting your feedback as well as adding some more exciting features into the player to keep your music discovery going. Stay tuned to the blog or Twitter.com/mufin to keep up to date!

Finally, here are some quotes on the beta release:

“The recommendations were spot-on“
Matt Rosoff – CNET

“Mufin’s recommendation features are extremely interesting“
Frederic Lardinois – ReadWriteWeb

“A standalone player like this is a smart step for Mufin to take“
David Chartier, Ars Technica

“despite constantly crashing and taking up a huge amount of memory (when they say “beta” they mean it”), mufin is actually fantastic“
nd_snsch, via Twitter

“FUCK YEAH! Someone give the guy that made this an award! www.mufin.com“
dara_dalton, via Twitter