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Interview with Sean Parker: co-founder of Napster and former Facebook President

I just came across a great interview by Jimmy Fallon with Sean Parker at the NExTWORK conference. Sean Parker is the co-founder of Napster, former Facebook President and now on the board of Spotify as well as being a VC.

Download MP3 Music for Free

Songr is a completely free and small application which we can use to search over 16 music engines and directly download files within the app. And even more, we can download YouTube high-quality videos and if we prefer, just extracting and downloading the audio from the video.

Since the Napster blast, the web did not have the chance to unify a good way for users to get music for free (and legally); tons of sites and applications appeared but not all of them are famous. Songr is one of those that are in fact quite powerful. You can download it from this link.

Here are some of the features:

Songr aggregates results from 16 mp3 search engines

  • Full album search
  • Download HQ/HD YouTube videos and optionally extracts the audio track as mp3
  • It grays out low bitrate preview-only and mp3s
  • Intelligent sorting: Songr tries to display high quality mp3s on the top of the list
  • Double clicking a mp3 file opens it directly in Windows Media Player
  • Songr converts links that point to a web page instead of the mp3 file
  • It makes possible to discover the name of a song by typing some words in the Search by lyrics panel and listen to a preview of the song
  • Automatic updates check, to get more search engine connectors
  • Automatic mode
  • Links to buy music from Amazon and Rhapsody
  • It’s freeware, without ads or restrictions

The supported MP3 search engines: Audiodump.com, BeeMp3.com, DilanDau.com, 4shared.com, Goear.com, Hypster.com, Iask.com, JustHearIt.com (YouTube videos), Kohit.net, Mp3000.net, Mp3Realm.org, Mpeg-Search.com, Skreemr.com, Socbay.com, Soso.com, Wrzuta.pl.

Digital Music Distributor RouteNote Signs Three New Online Music Stores – Deezer, Napster, Thumbplay

Digital music distributor RouteNote has just announced the launch of three new music store partners – Deezer, Napster and Thumbplay Mobile.

RouteNote is the only digital music distribution service that has no upfront costs and provides artists with access to the worlds largest online stores and streaming services. Artists can choose from a growing list of quality partners including iTunes, Amazon mp3, Spotify, eMusic and more.

New partner summary:

deezer-logoDeezer is a French business, but has agreements with all 4 major labels to stream ad-supported music to their 9 million registered users across 35 different countries. In the three years since its launch, Deezer has been voted the most innovative website of 2007 by readers of 01Net, ahead of both Facebook and Dailymotion. Deezer also won the 2008 Red Herring award, for Europe’s most innovative web companies, among various other awards. The proof of their success is really in the number of people listening to music through their service, which keeps on growing. In addition to their music streaming service, Deezer also offers:

- Access to radio channels: Hip Hop, Rock, Electro, Jazz, Live, French Scene, Disco etc.
- Surfing intelligent online radio
- Information about artists, albums, tracks, introducing subscribers to new music
- Sharing playlists, chat and musical tastes with friends via the community of ‘Deezernautes’
- Watch videos

Napster logoNapster was the first cat among the digital pigeons with it’s peer to peer service, but they’ve come a long way since their rebellious beginnings, and now their subscription service offers both unlimited streaming and a number of DRM free downloads per month, available online and on smartphones in Europe and the USA.

thumbplay logo Thumbplay is the largest mobile content provider in the U.S. Operating both web based and mobile services, including licensed music, video and games. They have deals with all the majors, and several independent labels and artists, and now you can get access to their services through RouteNote. Hundreds of millions of cellphones in the US are waiting to download your music.

To get your music live with these music stores and all our other online music partners, sign up for our music distribution service, and get our new music upload tool. You can have your tracks online in minutes, and earning you money in a matter of weeks.

Disclosure: I am the CEO of RouteNote.