BlogMusik is a new online music site that allows you to search for music, create playlists, stream your playlists, and even save individual songs using a flash-based iPod interface, assuming you can get a username (the site is currently experiencing extremely high traffic). Michael Arrington at TechCrunch speculates that, because there's no information on the site about licensing, BlogMusik is likely to be pulled from the Internet soon, so people should check it out while they still can.
He also suspected at one point that BlogMusik was really accessing a big music collection on a central server, rather than scouring the Internet for individual song files. I've been testing out another service that grabs music from blogs in all sorts of interesting ways... hopefully I'll be able to talk about that soon; for now, all I can say is that it's completely conceivable (and even likely) that BlogMusik works by grabbing songs from decentralized sources that would be onerous for record labels to subpoena one by one, rather than drawing on a centralized database.
At the moment, this is all a bit academic – BlogMusik is just about unusable, and the other service I'm talking about hasn't launched yet. But stay tuned; these apps are starting to look like the Web 2.0 version of the original Napster... and the one I'll be talking about soon trumps BlogMusik's cute little "virtual iPod" interface in a big way.
