Last week, we launched mufin for artists giving anyone the chance to add their self-produced music to the music discovery engine on mufin. Your music will be recommended to anyone on mufin who is looking for that type of sound. This also means that you can have your tunes promoted next to popular artists if you share a similar sound.
Now if you’re using SoundCloud already, it’s even easier to add your music to mufin. Simply select ‘Connect to SoundCloud’ when starting to upload your music and we will copy all the public music from your SoundCloud profile to mufin. This way, you don’t have to upload your music all over again and can spent more time on producing great tunes. As soon as your music has been added to the music discovery engine, it can be discovered by others who dig a sound like yours.
We just launched our newest addition to the music discovery engine: mufin for artists. It allows you to add your own music to mufin for free, making it possible for our users to easily discover your music. For example, a user searches for <yourfavouriteartisthere> on mufin. If a track of yours is similar to that music, it will be recommended to it. It doesn’t matter how known or unknown your music is, as for mufin only the sound of the music matters. In addition, users can put your music on playlists or post it on Facebook or Twitter with the ability to directly listen to it. This way, friends too can find out about your music, fueling promotion and viral buzz.
Of course, you can decide yourself if you want to allow streaming of your tracks or not. You can also include a link to your homepage if someone wants to find out more about you. Mufin for artists is free, so check it out and let us know in the comments what music mufin thinks your tracks are similar to.
How have you been using mufin during the last year, though? What tracks got discovered the most, which albums did you like and what artists were hot on mufin?
Read on to find out and remember that mufin is a sound-based music discovery engine. You’ll not only find the usual suspects in our best of list but also some new and surprising music.
Expectedly, the artists you have been looking for covered the whole musical field from Singer/Songwriter via Pop to Alternative/ Rock. Take a look yourself at the ones that have been searched for the most:
Quite recently, we have asked you per email how you listen to music in your spare time and how you use the mufin player. Exciting sounds what we’ve come across.
Is it possible to own enough music? We would rather say, no, not in the slightest, which you agree to when taking a look at your revealing answers concerning your music collection. But take a look yourself: more than one quarter of you folks state to own at least 100GB or more of music.
Besides, we were interested in how you predominantly listen to music:
Concerning our question whether you own a portable music device, you came up with an ambitious and clear-cut YES, I do own one (83,44%). Also, two thirds of the owners use their portables daily or regularly several times a week.
More than 20% of you do use social networks about daily, further 20% of you at least several times a week. Opposed to that, music websites are somewhat behind, 9% of the survey participants stated to use it on a daily basis, 23% make use of it a couple of times per week.
What kind of listening habits have you got? How much music do you normally listen to? The answers are pretty straight forward: pretty much and pretty frequent. The picturesque illustration below shows you, what listening type you consider yourself as.
We are looking forward to your feedback and many thanks again for your support!
You can do everything at once now! After recently moving our Web Player on mufin.com to the lower edge of the screen, we have now re-arranged the entire site making it possible to listen to music without interruption while searching for new tracks on mufin.com. Additionally, sharing titles and playlist recommendations via Facebook and Twitter has been simplified even further. So, don’t lose any time and share those playlists with your friends! By the way: the discovery centre regularly offers new playlist recommendations for logged-in users, such as: http://www.mufin.com/us/playlist/5712
And the best is yet to come: we have launched a new form of music visualization on mufin.com under “Vision”.
By clicking on “Vision” similar titles are not presented in a list, but in a kind of map, which arranges music similar to a selected track based on sound characteristics. Just as in the list view, you have acces to player, playists, history and auto playlist etc.
Using Vision is similiar to using online maps. You can move the view of the map, use the mouse wheel to zoom and navigate in the overview window at the bottom left to quickly reach an area further away. The more you zoom in, the more details per song you will be able see. Discovering music has never looked this good!
Our friends over at SoundCloud are organizing the first German Music Hack Day taking place in Berlin next week, September 18th till 20th to be precise.
What is the Music Hack Day? Music Hack Day is an un-conference style event where hackers & coders and companies providing an open API work together on new web/software/music projects in just a short weekend. The first Music Hack Day took place in the London offices of the Guardian where more than 30 new projects saw the light of the day, Citysounds.fm is just one of the very cool applications created on the first event.
We’re excited, to say the least, that Music Hack Day is coming to our home town Berlin. And while you’re in Berlin, make sure to check out some of the other cool events happening next week such as the Berlin Music Days or the #camp.
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.
It’s time for a new version of the web-based mufin player. We just added a whole new range of functions for listening to, discovering, and sharing music online.
Probably the neatest new feature is Auto-Playlist. If you are on an artist’s page with a discography, a click on Auto-Playlist will automatically create a playlist with music videos from that artist. Auto-Playlists are not limited to artist pages alone, you can use them on any detail page (e.g. tracks, albums).
Auto-playlist on mufin.com
In addition, you can now bring your playlist to the public. Let your friends join the fun and have them listen to playlists created on mufin.com. Just click “Public“ when saving your playlist. Simply click “Link” afterwards to open the public playlist ready to be viewed, explored and listened to. You can further send playlists to your friends by clicking “Share”. As know from our mufin player, similar sounding tracks to whatever is being played at the moment are shown directly below the playlist.
Public playlist on mufin.com
You can explore other mufin user’s playlists in a new playlist widget directly on your discovery dashboard. And if you can’t wait for the weekend to begin, our Berliner Elektroniker playlist should get you started right now.
