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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ublaze" data-source="post: 4223814" data-attributes="member: 166572"><img src="http://static.arstechnica.com/assets/2009/03/Muziic1-thumb-640xauto-3007.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />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.The Muziic media player offers a fairly pleasant experience, though performance was sluggish at times, particularly when searching. A companion Muziic Encoder application is provided, complete with an album art tool, for uploading music to YouTube.Video takes a backseat to audio, though, as Muziic's UI is dominated by lists of categories, search results, and playlist tracks, while a small video thumbnail is available for expanding. A "buy" button returns an error explaining that the Muziic store is not yet open, but Nelson said that a music shop is on the drawing board. "We'd love to offer a digital download store in the future, but not presently. We do/will serve un-obtrusive advertisements on the website."Whether Muziic gets far enough to open a store, however, is the big question. Even if you disregard Muziic's potential for encroaching on YouTube's yet-to-be-released Vevo spinoff for mainstream music videos, the labels are surely not warming up to the company since it shares none of the advertising revenue that YouTube does in order to host this content in the first place (in fact, the Muziic desktop player displays no advertising at all—at least for now). Plus, YouTube is having trouble with its own aspirations to "host every music video ever created," as Warner yanked all of its content in December 2008 after renegotiations failed. While YouTube has yet to make an official statement or move in regard to Muziic, a representative told CNET that "on a preliminary review, however, it appears that the site violates our API terms of use."Nelson says his company contacted Google about its media player. "After our launch, we were in correspondence with Google, though after requesting an account liaison and offering our full communication, we have not yet received a response. We wish to have open communication with Google, YouTube and the record labels, as Muziic is undoubtedly the most extensive use of the YouTube API in history," Nelson said.A desktop application that harnesses YouTube's vast music library is certainly interesting. However, simply being interesting or implementing a successfully broad API experiment may not be enough to help Muziic survive past the 15 minutes of fame that is so common for YouTube ventures.Download :::::<a href="http://www.muziic.com/" target="_blank">http://www.muziic.com/</a>  <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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