Yahoo Music Open Up With New API
Yahoo Music, a flagship Yahoo property has opened its back end to developers to take the music and play with it around the internet. From the YMusic Blog:
If you are a developer and have ever wished to bring the Yahoo! Music experience into your site, now you can do it. Today Yahoo! have made available to the public the new Yahoo! Music API.
The Yahoo! Music API give developers and publishers open access to one of the most complete music catalog online. You can now access and browse Yahoo! Music’s vast content of high quality videos, artists and albums through charts, search, recommendations, and more.
Mashable chimes in with some great information stating:
The API is broken into 9 services and the video player API
. The video player API allows you to embed the Yahoo! Music Videos Flash Player to quickly play any videos found through the API services.
The only initial concern with the API is that any service calls for ratings or recommendations require the use of BBAuth, a Yahoo-specific authentication mechanism. Otherwise, there is a lot you can do with these services, including:
Artist Service
Category Service
Image Service
Rating Service
Release Service
Station Service
Track Service
User Service
Video Service
Kudos to Yahoo for opening up their music services.
To all the indie bands of the world, you need to be looking to get your music out to streaming services like Yahoo, iMeem, Last.FM, iLike and others as they are becoming a force on the internet, as developers are getting these creatures out to more sites via 3rd party applications. Most of these services have royalty programs, so you can even collect a few pennies for live streams.
