There have been some technical problems on mufin.com since last Friday, which made it sometimes difficult to login (directly on the website or through the mufin player).
All problems have been sorted out, and mufin.com is fully up and running again. Logging in from mufin player now also works again. Unfortunately, the outage has broken the login and playlist data of some of you. If you still can’t login, please do the following:
1. Go to mufin.com and login using your existing email and password.
2. After login, a new page “Complete registration” instead of the usal “My page” will be shown:
3. Please fill-in your username and birthdate and accept the terms of use. Click then on “Finalize”.
4. That’s it! You should now be able to login again, either from mufin player or directly from the website.
If you’re still experiencing problems, please write us at team [at] mufin.com. Again, sorry if the outage has caused you any inconveniences.
We’re very sorry but unfortunatly we’re currently experiencing some technical difficulties. You might have problems logging in or accessing your playlists on mufin.com, please stay tuned for more details.
Almost a half million people have discovered the sound of their music using the mufin player over the last six months. We thank you very much! In the meanwhile, we have been listening to your feedback, tweaking mufin.com and our iTunes plugin. And of course we’ve been working on the final version of the mufin player that we’re releasing today. What’s new? How about some Last.fm scrobbling, Twitter and Facebook integration, album artwork, and lots of bug fixing? There’s even more, go here for all the shiny details. But before you jump the ship and grab your free copy read on.
Today, we’re also releasing the mufin player pro. The mufin player pro features all the great tools found in the mufin player PLUS the 3D sound universe (not to mention things like the sound-based duplicate song finder). Interacting and playing with music in visual way has been spinning in our heads (and others) for awhile. The mufin player pro is the result of our year-long research on this topic. The 3D sound universe found in the mufin player pro lets you explore and manage your music collection in a visual way. Check out the video to get a first idea what that means:
Today’s music players are basically spreadsheets that play music. Ok, that’s a bit exaggerated but still – using music visualizations to access and manage your music collection, like Apple’s CoverFlow, are fairly new. Mufin player pro arranges all tracks in a 3D space, based on whatever sound metrics you choose. All your happy, fast-paced songs? In the upper right if you choose “tempo” and “mood” as metric. Calm songs with an acoustic feel? Tick “Aggressiveness” and “Sound” and you’ll have them right in front of you. In addition, you can navigate freely (and playfully) in your 3D sound universe as if it was Space Invaders redux. The possibilties are endless, far too many to cover them all in this post. That’s why we’ll go into more detail in future blog posts.
As with all good things, mufin player pro comes with a price. Unlike the free mufin player, its $29.99. We think this a reasonable price, since some of the included tools like duplicate song finder or cleaning up song meta data are sold elsewhere as stand-alone tools for the same price. And in the end, you might not have to pay at all: Everyone who comments will take part in a drawing for 10 mufin player pro licenses!
On a side note, we also incorporated a new visualization tool into mufin.com, just click “vision” and see what happens. More on that later.
