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Music Services with the Best Third Party Integration

June 9th, 2009

The Best Music Services Part 5

Music Services Third Party Integration

This is the fifth article in a 5 part series on the Best Music Services on the Internet. See the rest of the series:

  1. The Most Reliable Online Music Services
  2. Online Music Services with the Best Suggestion Quality
  3. The Best Music Discovery Service
  4. Best Community Driven Online Music Services
  5. BBest Third Party Integration among Online Music Services

Even though you can do a lot from the home page of most internet music services, you need to be able to take the show on the road. When you can integrate your favorite music service into other third party sites and devices they become more powerful and useful.

 

I have a few standard ways that I will judge each service’s third party integration:

  • Plug-ins for your desktop music player (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.)
  • Integration with popular Social Networks (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.)
  • Standalone Application for your phone (iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, etc.)
  • Embeddable player for your web page

 

A service will need at least one check for each category for a “perfect” score.

 

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