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Sometimes you find something that is just earth-shatteringly cool. This week I found one of those things, ex.fm.
ex.fm is a extension to the Google Chrome browser that turns your browser into your music player. It has totally transformed the way I listen to music and only in a few days.
Ex.fm once installed puts a little icon to the right of the address bar in Chrome, when you visit a site with MP3s or a site like Soundcloud, a little blue box appears with the number of tracks on that page in it.
You click on the icon and a small media player appears and below it all the tracks on that page. You can hit play or add them to your queue. Every site you come across with compatible music gets automatically added to your collection.
You can then browse music by site or artist, add it to your queue and listen away!
Typically when you find a good music site it'll flag up 20-30 files, so after a couple of sites it gives you a couple of hours music easy. I've found I am listening to loads of music just from the queue.
ex.fm also has the usual social options. You can follow others and be followed. You can tweet a song or post it to facebook. It also scrobbles all your listening to last.fm too.
It's great stuff and if you start using it please let me know and follow me at http://ex.fm/lancew
Lance
p.s. you can follow their blog over at http://blog.extension.fm/ which has all the latest news, like today the picture of an iPhone which hints at an upcoming iPhone app. :-)
ex.fm is a extension to the Google Chrome browser that turns your browser into your music player. It has totally transformed the way I listen to music and only in a few days.
Ex.fm once installed puts a little icon to the right of the address bar in Chrome, when you visit a site with MP3s or a site like Soundcloud, a little blue box appears with the number of tracks on that page in it.
You click on the icon and a small media player appears and below it all the tracks on that page. You can hit play or add them to your queue. Every site you come across with compatible music gets automatically added to your collection.
You can then browse music by site or artist, add it to your queue and listen away!
Typically when you find a good music site it'll flag up 20-30 files, so after a couple of sites it gives you a couple of hours music easy. I've found I am listening to loads of music just from the queue.
ex.fm also has the usual social options. You can follow others and be followed. You can tweet a song or post it to facebook. It also scrobbles all your listening to last.fm too.
It's great stuff and if you start using it please let me know and follow me at http://ex.fm/lancew
Lance
p.s. you can follow their blog over at http://blog.extension.fm/ which has all the latest news, like today the picture of an iPhone which hints at an upcoming iPhone app. :-)