So long Webjay and thanks for all the XSPF

This little announcement has appeared on the Webjay site:

Announcement: Webjay will be closing at the end of June! Click here to learn how you can back up your playlists and keep your player running smoothly.

This isn't too surprising.  Lucas Gonze, the man behind Webjay, has been busy on other things, and development on Webjay seemed to have stopped a while ago.  I hope they make their data available for the research community. 

If you are looking for an alternative playlist sharing site, check out the review that DJ Alchemi wrote a few years back.  He compares 7 playlist services (although he neglects to mention my favorite: MusicMobs).   (Via Rocketsurgeonblog) 

Posted on: May 23, 2007

Posted by: plamere

Category: music

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It's on DJ Alchemi's list, but (fwiw) I'd recommend Fiql.

Posted by Jason Herskowitz on May 23, 2007 at 07:47 AM EDT #

We've added a Webjay import feature to Grabb.it. Just give us your Webjay username and we'll archive all your playlists. Hopefully this will help some people who've been using the XSPF player on their sites, since we provide the same Flash player along with other tools.

Posted by Chris Anderson on May 26, 2007 at 04:06 PM EDT #

long time user of WebJay and just started using this new player....MXPLAY which also offers import of all your webjay tunes into the player....check it out http://blog.mxplay.com/mxplay/2007/05/webjay_users_lo.html

Posted by tekwek on May 29, 2007 at 06:35 PM EDT #

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