MediaMaster’s Facebook App

MediaMaster has just released a new Facebook app that lets you create a playlist and share it with your friends. With the app, you can create a playlist of your favorite songs, in an order you specify, and have it available to any of your profile’s visitors via a miniplayer. Thankfully, unlike MySpace, the songs aren’t playing immediately upon loading your friend’s profile. When you visit someone’s profile who has the MediaMaster app, you have the option to turn on the miniplayer, pause it, or stop it altogether. The miniplayer also has buttons that let your friends play your playlist in
the music player of their choice, whether it’s Winamp, iTunes, or
Windows Media Player. This is handy especially if they want to listen
to your tunes after they leave your profile page. To use the MediaMaster radio in Facebook, you click “Add Tunes” after installing the app, which takes you to MediaMaster’s website. Once there, you can upload and organize your songs into a playlist. When you’re finished, the site should take you back to Facebook.

I had trouble getting the app to work in Firefox, but when I loaded it in IE 7, all was well. I’m curious if others are having the same problem? Uploading songs was a breeze - I was even able to upload music stored on a network location with ease. However, post-upload, I wasn’t automatically redirected back to Facebook as promised, but I managed. Once back in Facebook, I realized that somehow, I ended up with MediaMaster’s sample album of classical music in my radio playlist at first - it wasn’t showing in my playlist, but it started playing when I tested the app on my site. I went back to my MediaMaster radio and deleted the sample album. Better safe than sorry. Don’t want people thinking I’ve been dying to share classical songs with them. I’m old, but I’m not *that* old. Other than these minor glitches, the app was easy enough to use and certainly fun to play with. I’ll have to add some more songs once I can locate some more un-DRM’ed tunes in my collection - a task that is even harder than it sounds.

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