About Project Playlist
About Project Playlist™
Projectplaylist.com is an information location tool similar to Google® and Yahoo!® but devoted entirely to the world of music. Our purpose is to help you find and enjoy music legally throughout the web in the same way that other search engines help you find webpages, images, and other media, but we also add a social /community twist. We make it easy for you to create playlists, share your playlists with friends, and browse playlists of others. We connect you with the coolest music on the web, and we connect people who are passionate about music. Music is burgeoning on the web. Increasingly, artists, record companies, music bloggers, music websites and music critics are uploading music files to websites that they control for promotional or other legal purposes. Our mission at Project Playlist, Inc. is to organize this rapidly growing abundance of legal music on the web for the benefit of the worldwide music community – artists, songwriters, music distributors, and listeners alike. Our view is that the more people share their individual passion for music by sharing playlists, the more music will be created, and the more the entire music industry will grow.Projectplaylist.com allows you to discover all of this free music legally because we respect the rights of copyright holders and we insist that you do as well. We pay royalties to songwriters and music publishers, and we respect the performing artist’s choice. Some performing artists make their music freely available on the web, others allow you to listen to only a few freely available songs through a promotional site, and a few would prefer that none of their music be heard on the web at all. If an artist tells us that our search engine is linking to an illegally posted song, we will immediately take down the link to that music file.
We are in the process of building an index of links to music files posted on webpages that meet reasonable criteria as having the legal right to host music files for streaming to end users. Although we cannot control the music files posted on webpages by others, we can and do prohibit uploading or downloading of songs to or from our site. In other words we do not host music files, nor do we make them available. We only enable users to find these files and listen to them. We also require as a condition of the Terms of Use of our site that you not add to our index any links to webpages that you know to host illegally posted music files.
Once you find music tracks that you like through our music search engine (or on another user's playlist), you can add them to your personal playlist and then share your playlist with others. You can post your playlist on your social networking webpage or any other website, subject to the terms of use of those sites, or you can email your playlist to friends! We are constantly adding features to help you find, play and share the music you love. If you discover a legally posted music file not in our index, you can add the link to that file to our index and to your playlist. We ask that you add links only to songs that you reasonably believe are legally posted on a legitimate promotional site such as an artist website or a music blog.
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Music Playlists
Playlists on projectplaylist.com are nothing more than collections of hyperlinks pointing to music files located on websites throughout the Internet. Our music player allows you to stream the data in those music files you have found so that you can listen to the music contained in those files. When you press the “play button” associated with a hyperlink displayed on projectplaylist.com, the remote server hosting the song begins to stream the data allowing you to hear the song. Because you have initiated the linking process from projectplaylist.com, the song appears to play through our site. This procedure of “in-line linking” enables you to build your playlist easily by using the search and linking tools on projectplaylist.com.You can think of our technology as a process of bookmarking “favorites” just as you bookmark sites with any web browser. Our technology makes it easy for you to find and bookmark your favorite music files anywhere on the Internet, and then to build a series of bookmarks – your playlist. We have then made it easy for you to post and share this series of bookmarks, your playlist, which then makes its easy for your friends to find and hear your favorite music. Streaming the bookmarked files to other sites can be inefficient for you and demanding on the resources of the other site’s owner and operator. In some cases, we cache songs to make streaming the music file more efficient for you and the site actually hosting the music file.
Our Player
Our player is akin to an Internet web browser that renders data stored on a remote server. Using the projectplaylist.com music player, which you can embed in any web page, you can listen to your playlist and thus the remotely located media files wherever and whenever you choose. For example, you can embed our player on your social networking page, and then allow your friends to listen to your playlist. We subscribe to the philosophy of an open system design. Where possible, our technology is compatible with other music players as well. You can listen to your playlist with Windows Media Player®, Real Media Player® or Winamp® as well.Our Search Engine
Our search engine like all search engines depends upon a searchable index of public locations on the World Wide Web. We are in the process of building an index of links to music files hosted on websites throughout the Internet for promotional and other legal purposes. We are building that index by “spidering” websites (or where applicable portions of websites) that meet reasonable criteria for having the legal right to post the music files appearing on their webpages. Typical sites that we spider include artist websites and webpages, record label websites, promotional music websites, music blogger websites and music critic websites. In addition, we allow our users to submit URLs to music files they find while browsing the Internet. We expect and ask our users to agree through our Terms of Use Agreement, to add only those hyperlinks to music files that they reasonably believe are hosted legally for promotional or other legal purposes. If you choose to submit URLs to the projectplaylist.com search index, it is important that you first read our Terms of Use and observe your agreement. Failure to do so can result in termination of your membership.Our Support for Artists – Purchasing Music, Merchandise and Tickets We are committed to helping musical artists at all levels to support their careers. Once you find a song through projectpalylist.com that you wish to own, we make it easy for you to buy it. We link principally to iTunes®, and for many artists you discover on projectplaylist.com, you can legally purchase the song with just a few clicks. Our search engine can also help you find an artist’s website, Myspace® webpage, or record label webpage. There, you can usually read more about the artist’s latest record releases, buy merchandise, or learn about the artist’s tour schedule.
