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Relevant Music Content Important for Web Sites and Blogs
March 15, 2006

A Bristol based entrepreneur has created an online service that enables any web site - including blogs - to feature new independent music content. Tunecast.co.uk the only online music resource that allows you to feature audio, cover art and podcasts on your own website has over 100 sites already using its free service.The service described as "pretty cool" by Peter Cooper, founder of FeedDigest, provides new music for your website from not just the traditional pop, rock and rap, but also over 30 other genres* and even allows your site to "watch" a certain label or artist. "Personalised music discovery is here and what better way to discover it than on a website that you are already familiar with" said the services creator, Mark Panay an entrepreneur and music lover from Bristol, UK"Browsing through Tunecast I am over the moon, this is a fantastic service" said Kerry from musicfactory2.co.uk one of the first websites to feature music from Tunecast. The service is designed to give all webmasters the choice of music they want on their sites, a Trance site wants the newest underground trance featured on its site whilst an upfront Hip-Hop site wants just that, upfront Hip-Hop. With the streaming audio and cover art the service compliments any website that wants frequently updated music content.Panay, previously founder of the UK mobile music company YRMedia, said he created the service after observing the amount of fantastic independent music that never gets heard anywhere because of dwindling marketing budgets or small labels that do not have budgets at all.

"It just occurred to me that if all of the websites who are into a particular sound featured the music that they were into, it would make their sites look good and help market the Indie record labels too, if we made it easy for them, potentially we could create a vast global network," Panay said.Panay explained that any website or blog can add the latest music and cover art to their site, using a small plugin that webmasters paste into their pages. The whole process takes just a few minutes, and if a webmaster wants to change the look of the music feeds they can either choose a different preset or design their own look using cascading style sheets. "Web standards are very important to us and all of our feeds stick to the W3C guidelines making them easy to style if you choose to," Panay said, "although if your CSS skills aren't up to it you can just use one of our professionally designed presets".About Tunecast.co.ukTunecast.co.uk ( http://www.tunecast.co.uk ) is two months old and has over one hundred websites featuring new Tunecast music on their websites and over 20,000 unique visitors every week discovering new music that they like. The company is privately held and is headquartered in Bristol, England.*List of Available GenresAlternative Rock, Breaks and Beats, Dance, Deep House, Downtempo and Chillout, Drum and Bass, Dub and Reggae, Electronica, Euro Trance, Country, Easy Listening, Folk, Funk and Soul, Funky House, Nu Jazz, Hard Trance, Heavy Rock, Hip Hop, House, Indie, Jazz, Leftfield, Metal, Pop, Progressive House, Punk, R n B/Urban, Rock, Tech House, Techno, Trance.



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