{"id":1526,"date":"2009-01-29T09:29:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T17:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2009-01-29T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T17:29:44","slug":"sharing-mp3s-in-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2009\/01\/29\/sharing-mp3s-in-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Mp3s in Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Evolving Music and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">MixMatchMusic<\/a> have been <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">Twitter<\/a> devotees for several months now (<a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/23\/why-musicians-should-jump-on-the-twitter-bandwagon\/\">check out why one of our writers thinks that musicians should jump on the Twitter bandwagon<\/a>), I&#8217;ve only recently picked up the site. And I&#8217;ll be honest, if I hadn&#8217;t seen the iPhone app Gavroche has been rocking, I probably never would have. I put up an account several months ago, but the idea of just text messages coming in, or needing to look at a browser window seemed ridiculous to me. I&#8217;m not sitting at home checking my computer to see what other people are up to. But when Gavroche introduced me to Tweetie where you can post automatically, get a nice streamlined list of responses and other peoples&#8217; status messages, I was intrigued. When he showed me how easy it was to post photos to the site from the phone, I was sold. And now, with even more features, I&#8217;m beginning to feel like Twitter culture is slowly infiltrating everything (and now to see if they can come up with a workable business model to actually stay in business.)<\/p>\n<p>But up until now, the shortened URLs, the pictures, the @replies&#8230; these are fun things that have kept me busy, but haven&#8217;t yet broken into the main area of interest that I have&#8230; namely, big shocker here, music. So when I read about Songly, I was of course intrigued. The service allows you to use ANY URL that is hosting an Mp3 and post it as a Tweet. Here&#8217;s the kicker though&#8230; it doesn&#8217;t just shorten the URL and make it tweetable&#8230; it wraps it up in a flash player so anyone can listen.<\/p>\n<p>To try out <a href=\"http:\/\/song.ly\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">Songly, click here<\/a>, and to read my <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ActualA\/status\/1159043647\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">first tweet attempt at such a thing, click here<\/a>. I&#8217;ve used the new Souls of Mischief song, &#8220;Tour Stories&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/21\/opio-and-tajai-souls-of-mischief-interview-pt1\/\">click here for Souls of Mischief interview<\/a>.) And for those of you rocking FireFox, Songly has an integrated tool for it. Talk about musical connectivity. A fantastic way to share music that will surely evolve with Twitter, forming the future of content sharing. Only drawback? Since the player they use is Flash, your iPhone friends won&#8217;t be able to listen until they get to a computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Evolving Music and MixMatchMusic have been Twitter devotees for several months now (check out why one of our writers thinks that musicians should jump on the Twitter bandwagon), I&#8217;ve only recently picked up the site. And I&#8217;ll be honest, if I hadn&#8217;t seen the iPhone app Gavroche has been rocking, I probably never would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[17,19,22,25,26,30,37,2034,43],"tags":[2680,1699,1709,1916],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}