Muziic: YouTube music without the video
In addition to videos of aspiring stars and cute pets, YouTube houses what is easily one of the Web's largest collections of music and music videos. Since YouTube is predominantly a video site and Vevo is still on the drawing boards, a startup called Muziic has stepped in with a "YouTube media player." Featuring a familiar UI and access to YouTube's "millions" of songs, Muziic is both an interesting idea and a prime target for a legal action.
Available for Windows XP and Vista, Muziic offers a media player UI that is reminiscent of Winamp. But instead of managing your local media library, Muziic leverages YouTube's APIs to present a categorized, searchable list of songs, music videos, and live performances from the site's catalog. As far as how large this catalog is, Muziic's 15-year-old CTO and cofounder, David Nelson, told Ars that "we actually do not have a specific number, as YouTube does not supply that information." The music category of Google's dominant video site simply lists "millions" of items, so Muziic's marketing echoes that language.
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