tunesBag enables you to access your own music anywhere and anytime. Stream to your workplace, mobile or HDTV.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Get recommendations for the currently played track based on your listening behaviour

tunesBag is now providing you with listening recommendations calculated in real-time based on your listening behaviour and actions on tunesBag!

The recommendations are based on your actions like rating items, adding them to playlists, listening to playlists etc. Together with our partner Strands Inc we're collecting those anonymized meta data and in the right sidebar we'll provide you with recommended tracks you might be interested in.

Note that the recommendations are based on your own actions PLUS the actions of the whole tunesBag user crowd! This means we'll provide you with cool recommendations from day one of your tunesBag membership!

In case the recommended track is not part of your library, you're able to buy it with via iTunes / amazon mp3; of course you're able to listen to the track for free.

User interface updates & improvements

We've updated our user interface again - we're now using the available screen space much better. In case you've added your own background image you will see that the sidebars on the left and on the right are semi-transparent!

What has been updated in detail?
  • 100% width of the whole window (with auto-resizing)
  • Album artwork has been moved to the left bottom corner
  • Currently active playlist will be highlighted
  • Search history moved to the bottom in the left sidebar
  • New search box in the search tab
  • Sidebar on the right clean up - now with recommendations!
  • Rating / Add to playlist actions for every track now in the bottom bar
  • New popup menus will automatically fade out
Check out the updates!

Friday, March 6, 2009

Smart tag optimizer helps you to fix meta tags like artist, album, track number etc

Correct meta tags (artist, album, name etc) are desperately needed in order to get the most out of your tunes collection. The range of benefits reaches from correct artwork to accurate last.fm - submissions and better search results. We've added a smart analysis component which inspects every uploaded track - this way even tunes with a track naming like "track 01.mp3" and no further information can be identified correctly!

In a two-tier process we try to fix the tags automatically first and will only call for your assistance in a second step. How to fix the tags of your items Click on the user menu and select "Fix meta tags" - this will launch the assistant querying you for a decision.

A short example what you can expect - on the left you can see the currently stored data, on the right our proposal (can be more than one).
How to launch the optimizer - open the user menu and select "Fix meta tags"

Monday, March 2, 2009

@wired: Show Us Your Favorite Album Artwork

Wired.com is doing a ranking of the best album artworks ... submit your favourite album artwork or vote for one now!

The current top list: