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Free Music Widget: ProjectPlaylist

I was looking around at my friend’s profiles on Myspace and such, and I’ve noticed a few of them have a pretty cool music widget that has tons of their favorite music on their profile. ProjectPlaylist is the widget I’m talking about — it’s free and holds up to 75 songs.

Widgets, in this context, are objects that you can take from one site with you and utilize on another Web site. For example, YouTube has an embeddable video widget — something you have to copy and paste for it to be played on your own site. ProjectPlaylist is no different, and because the playlist is in the widget, you could put it on multiple places like a blog or a profile.

ProjectPlaylist is a pretty straightforward Web site, you add the music and it builds a list for you. You can instantly preview it to make sure you got the right song. When you’re finished, you are guided through a process of customizing the widget (auto play, color, custom skin, and where you’re hosting it).

First time confusion: It was slightly confusing at first, because if you add songs, but there’s not a playlist, you added nothing and it doesn’t store your session activity so you essentially wasted the time that you invested into building a playlist. It would be really cool to simply lay out the three steps: sign up, make a playlist, add music and have that on the right rail. Clearly it was my fault, but I wasted 15 minutes, and for a Web user, that’s too much time to waste.

So here is my playlist — with no ads (where’s the monetization?!), and is pretty good on resources. Here’s my playlist that I stayed up too late to fill in: