Posted by Jim at July 28th, 2004

Much of the time I find the little bundled additions to stuff I buy to be unnecessary junk. Every so often, however, I’m sucked in by something I find kind of cool.

SBC appears to outsource it’s entire user experience (email, news home page, etc…) to Yahoo. Yahoo, in turn, provides piles of bundled useless junk in addition to their email service. One exception to this seems to be Launchcast.

Launchcast is Yahoo’s music service. I ignored it when it looked like I’d have to pay to use it, but since the full service comes free as part of Yahoo I decided to check it out.

I’ve often thought that the ideal music service for the internet would allow the listener to make a list of their favorite artists, albums, and so on and then the music service would actually play those albums. Plus it would ideally put in artists that other people with similar tastes also like.

That appears to be what Lauchcast does.

For those of you who would actually like to listen in on my musical choices, feel free. Much to my annoyance, it requires a player capable of taking windows media files, but one can’t have everything.