This is the new Music Blogs application for Facebook. It’s a great way to discover new music.

Music Blogs

When you first load the app, it randomly chooses one of the most popular music blogs on the web and starts playing back the music. Behind the scenes, the application is crawling that blog, grabbing all the music links and then putting them into this cool new player that we’ve built. If you like what you’re hearing, you can even grab embed codes from Y! Menu in the player and throw it up on your myspace or favourite social network site…

You can skip through the tracks in the player and it will seamlessly transition the music, crossfading the audio from one track to the next. If you like the blog you’re listening to, hit the Add Favorite tab. This will save the blog to your favorites so you can recall it again in the future. It also creates a music blog player on your Facebook profile which will play back the music from the blog you just saved.

There are thousands of great music blogs on the web – and this app provides a really easy way to discover them. Hit the Popular tab and you’ll see a bunch of different blogs to choose from. Click on any of them to start them playing back in the player. If you know a specific blog you’re looking for – use the Look Up feature. Simply enter the first letter of the Blog and then select it from the list. Or you can just choose a page number from the drop down list and try a blog you’ve never heard before.

Click on the Recently Viewed tab and you’ll see all the blogs you’ve listened to recently, so you can refer back to it share your favourites with your friends.

Discovering new music can be pretty addictive. Once you’ve found a set of blogs that you like – Publish them to your profile. You can drag and drop to rearrange them from the “My Favorites” tab. Hit Publish to My Profile and your own personal music blog roll gets pushed to your profile.

So there it is… a fun and easy way to discover new music. I like to think of music blogs like digital mixtapes. The mixtapes aren’t really what’s important – it’s the authors that count. Find a group of music blogs that you like and they’ll keep turning you on to cool, interesting, new music for a long time to come. This is the future of music and it’s here right now. Check it out!

http://apps.facebook.com/musicblogs

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