Qbox.com - Social Network Music Player

Social networks like MySpace, Bebo and Hi5 are used increasingly by users to listen to music. Since MySpace first became popular a few years ago, artists have used the site as a free means of distributing their content and connecting with fans. Qbox is a downloadable and robust media player that has indexed the entire music inventories of the largest social networks and made it easy for users to seamlessly search, organize and listen to all music available across multiple sites through one simple interface. Users can access over 21 million songs and stream them or save them. Using the My Library function, users can collect and organize songs from multiple networks in one space. Perhaps most interestingly, Qbox also offers a robust recommendation tool that analyzes musican’s friend lists and recommends music based on tastes.

“Initially, the social network music streaming service from Qbox is designed to provide music listeners a convenient way to find and enjoy music on social network sites. In the near future, the service will expand to provide benefits to the artists who publish their work on social networking sites for their fans to consume. Stay tuned...”

This is a unique tool with a great deal of potential. This could well become a hugely popular application for anyone who listens to music on social networks.

What sorts of benefits will they be offering to artists in the future? Is their “recommendation engine” a key part of their business model or really just for helping to suggest music that you might like?