Muziic launches free iPhone music app
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Online music service Muziic has launched its official iPhone app, which lets users search and browse music and music videos from YouTube, create playlists and listen to internet radio stations, while also tapping through to buy songs from Apple’s iTunes Store. Social features include the ability to tweet about tracks.
The app went live this weekend, and is free. It’ll provide competition for the increasing number of streaming music services offering mobile apps as premium products – Spotify, we7, and soon MOG. Ironically, given past speculation that YouTube didn’t approve of the way Muziic was using its API, Muziic’s iPhone app is funded partly by in-app advertisements provided by… Google!
Muziic originally launched as a desktop application in March 2009, allowing users to stream music from YouTube while building their own playlists. It bagged a lot of media coverage, thanks to questions over its legality, and also the fact that its developer, David Nelson, was just 15 years old at the time.
Meanwhile, Muziic was in the news again last Christmas, after it launched a website version that included the ability to play music videos from Vevo anywhere in the world, without seeing ads. The feature resulted in Vevo sendnig a stern email to Nelson, before removing its videos from YouTube’s API so no third-party site could make use of them. Vevo isn’t mentioned in the App Store blurb for Muziic’s iPhone app.
