Facebook Connect on Qloud

Users can now user Facebook Connect to log into Qloud. Just look for the “Connect with Facebook” button in the top right corner of every page to use it.

Facebook Connect will allow you to:

• Bring your Facebook social graph into Qloud so you can see your friends libraries, collaborate on playlists, send songs, and more.
• Post your Qloud activity, like when you listen to a favorite song or create a playlist, to your Facebook activity feed.

Collaborative Playlists on Qloud.com

If you use myMusic on Facebook, you’ve already been enjoying the ability to collaborate on playlists with your friends. Now we’re happy to announce that you can do the same thing on Qloud.com. Just got to www.qloud.com and sign in to start creating and sharing playlists.

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YouTube is Fixed

On all our social networks we’ve fixed the YouTube issue. The player should be functioning correctly now. Please let us know if you see any more problems

YouTube is down

Right now YouTube’s player is down. It’s like this across the internet. We’re working on fixing this as we speak. Stay tuned….

Post to Twitter from Qloud.com

Twitter users can now share links to music videos that they are listening to on Qloud.com. Just select the twitter icon next to any track in order to post a tweet about it.

Qloud.com and Google Friend Connect

This week Google announced their FriendConnect feature which allows websites to use Google’s authentication and friend information in their sites. Qloud has been an early partner with Google on this initiative and worked with them to build that into Qloud.com. Any user can sign in to Qloud.com using their Google account and we pull their friends from that service too.

You can learn more information about Google Friend connect at Google.com/friendconnect and on that page you’ll see Qloud is listed as one of the example sites.

Related articles

• Facebook Connect Now Open to All Developers
• Playing with Google Friend Connect

Collaborative Playlists

Making mixes is fun, but we find making them with your friends is even better. We’ve added new functionality to our playlists on myMusic for Facebook that allow you to invite your friends to edit and create playlists with you. There’s also a new create playlist tool so now it’s even easier to make the perfect mix for a lazy sunday or your next party.

Qloud’s Plug-ins

As some of you may know, we’ve had some issues with our plug-ins. Early users of Qloud will remember a tag browser that was part of the iTunes Visualizer. This allowed users to tag tracks in their library and even sort their music and create playlists based on those tags. Unfortunately we found the iTunes Visualizer environment to be unstable for this type of functionality. So we scaled back quite a bit, completely ditching the visualizer and tag browser. Now, visually the plug-in runs in your system tray or menu bar, and we’ve streamlined a lot of our processes to make it more lightweight. These plug-ins were released in January.

Since then we’ve been improving our “historical upload” process, song recognition, and user recognition. We’ve also improved our error reporting a great deal which has allowed us to make several bug fixes (so if you are a user out there still experiencing crashes and aren’t submitting the error reports, SUBMIT THEM).

As always if you have any comments or questions about the plug-in, please shoot an email to feedback@qloud.com.

Related artists - now users choose

The related artists area on Qloud went through a major overhaul over the past few weeks. Now when viewing an an artist, users can decide who the related artists are. On the right side of an artist page there’s an area to vote for other related artists and enter in new ones. Give it a try on any artist page in Facebook!

Valentine’s App

Looking to spend that special message to that special someone at Valetine’s? We make it easy for you. Just go use our new Valentine’s app, and send a musical message to those you love. Or maybe just to those you want to make laugh.