A few days ago, Alan Levine fired off a tweet looking for a “YouTube-ish” web service for audio. I’ve also wondered if there was also a service out there that would allow users to upload audio and provide something as handy as the embed feature of YouTube to allow that audio to live in a number of locations . Today I discovered imeem, which is an audio sharing site that gives you the ability to embed the audio clips you upload using a flash player.
At it’s heart, imeem is a music sharing social network site. But an mp3 is an mp3, so your audio doesn’t have to be music. Any audio you upload can be embedded into a blog/wiki/LMS page. And the flash player is about as close to a cross platform media format as you get these days.
Here’s what the embedded player looks like.
If you head to the page for this song, you’ll see the interface is very YouTube inspired with a lot of YouTube features. Imeem is probably the closest to YouTube for audio that I have seen.
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Rocareoggele
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:00 am
1Brilliant!
Paul
August 11th, 2008 at 5:11 am
2Good article, check out http://www.SoundLantern.com, it’s just for audio.
Randy Michaels
August 15th, 2008 at 6:43 am
3a youtube for audio site I always use is http://yourlisten.com
Jeff Piper
October 10th, 2008 at 9:15 am
4Entertonement has tons of clips:
http://www.entertonement.com
Lots of political stuff, movies and weird stuff.
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