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Matt Rosoff at CNET.com just posted a review of Muziic, a free music streaming service with an extensive catalog of songs.

Two things about Muziic struck me as especially cool:

First: The music catalog?  YouTube. That’s right – the video site. Muziic

makes extensive usage of the YouTube API to deliver rich audio-visual content, forming the web’s first ever “YouTube for Music”.

I think this is brilliant.

YouTube holds contracts with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and EMI.  (A noted exception is Warner Music, who recently removed YouTube videos containing their music after negotiations around licensing fees failed.)  Through the usage of Google’s YouTube Content ID Recognition System, artists are paid royalties based on the number of plays their song receives. “Because of YouTube’s contracts with the record labels, satisfaction can be reached for our listeners and the artists themselves,” stated David Nelson, Muziic’s CTO and Co-Founder.

David, by the way, is the second cool thing about Muziic. The free and legal music service is developed by self-described best friends Mark Nelson and David Nelson, who happen to be father and son.

Mark and David are more than just a father-son team who work well together though. David is only fifteen years old, making Mark Zuckerberg look like Larry King.

In my defense, we still took typing class when I was in high school and fax machines were “bleeding edge” technology.  They may have just started using photocopiers more frequently in lieu of those fun-to-sniff “ditto machines”.    Hard to hatch a start-up when the word “snail mail” had yet to be coined, I guess.  (And yes, Nana was the dog.  Hey, at least I was part of the cast!)

• To read more about how Muziic works and see it in action, visit the site.
• For a full review, you can read Matt’s CNET article here:  More free on-demand audio with Muziic | Digital Noise: Music and Tech – CNET News.

Muziic Player offers all the features you've grown familiar with in other popular media players, including full playlist management, player skins, playback and volume controls.

(Random side note: The purple color most commonly used for dittos is called “mauveine” or “aniline purple”.  Like Muziic,  a teenager was responsible for its development as well – although William Henry Perkin was already an elderly 18-year old at the time!)

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