Ibox.fm - A Site Where Music Goes Truly Social

Using a microblogging platform, Ibox aims to bring users the ultimate musical experience on the World Wide Web. In general terms, it lets anybody search for songs, listen to them online, and also share them with others in a manner which is no more complicated than sending out a tweet - IE, directly and immediately.

As it was only to be expected, you can build up your music collection online and share it with friends. And you can always see what it is they are listening to and pick up new artists that way.

A characteristic touch is that you can create your own radio station easily. In practice, if you and your friends think that listening to Linkin Park is the coolest thing ever you could set up a radio that plays only their songs and indulge yourselves.

The concept of social music is an interesting one for sure. The question that I can’t stop asking myself is not whether or not it will displace physical music (it won’t because fans and collectors thrive on showing their allegiance physically) but rather what will be the single incident that will make the average user (IE, the one who is not a die hard) shift en masse from one to the other. That is, will there be a single incident? If not, it is going to be a gradual process. And a site like this one is an important milestone indeed.

“Micorblogging music site.”

Social music just goes from strength to strength. A site like this one is setting the scene for even bigger things to come our way.

Couldn’t there be a problem ahead owing to the copyright of songs and so on?