by Sebastian Anthony (RSS feed) Dec 31st 2009 at 11:08AM
Quickly! Before it gets shut down! Muziic, a web app developed by a sixteen-year-old teenager, now offers YouTube and Vevo videos without ads.We originally covered it back in March and until Christmas Day, Muziic was simply a desktop-based downloadable program. Now, however, it's a full-featured web app -- and it's really rather good! It has a smooth, quick interface and a neat playback bar that sits at the bottom of the window. Playback isn't interrupted as you surf either; cool.
The problem is, not only does it draw on-demand content from YouTube (which is fine), but it also takes content from Vevo... without the pre-roll ads! The thing is, this isn't actually Muziic's fault, it's YouTube's. The YouTube application interface (API) also links into Vevo, and it doesn't seem to include the ads. We can only assume this will be fixed soon -- or Muziic will be forced to somehow include the ads.
Muziic offers a service comparable to, or better than, the wide range of streaming music web apps already on the Internet. I'm tempted to use it simply because a kid coded it -- he was just 15 when Muziic first launched. Did I mention there's an iPhone app for it coming soon too?
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