beatport
Well, I tried to get the BeatPort Player to work with Milo 317’s theme, HAL 5.0, but it wasn’t happening. So I am going to go witha big chunk of text I pulled from one of the Shameless Self Promotion Wikis, and edit it, or not, later. To Wit:
Beatport is a US-based online music store based in Denver, Colorado that specializes in dance music and remixes. With music from more than 3000 labels and thousands of new tracks per week, Beatport is recognized as the leader in online digital dance music.
It offers new releases, classic and exclusive tracks categorized by genre such as house music, trance music, and electronica. Visitors may listen to previews of tracks, which are available for individual purchase through immediate download, similar to the iTunes Music Store. Visitors can purchase individual tracks, as well as complete lists of tracks from DJs who provide “top ten” lists to Beatport. Labels are paid on a royalty basis from the downloads. A small number of tracks have territorial sales restrictions. Beatport can be accessed directly at www.beatport.com and from within Traktor DJ Studio software or Songbird (software) player.
Since 2005, Beatport has syndicated its technology to other online music sites, and powers several branded versions of itself. Each of these syndicates, although visually dissimilar, contain the same underlying content as the main Beatport site. One example is Traktor DJ Studio (a popular DJ software) which features embedded access to the Beatport catalog from within the application. Beatport is also listed as a partner for the online music store Burnlounge.
In February 2007, Beatport launched an embeddable flash mp3 player called the ‘Beatport Player’. The Beatport Player can be customized by users to display top download charts and new releases for any artist, label or genre available on Beatport.com. Users create their custom player using the intuitive ‘Beatport Player Generator’, accessible from BeatportPlayer.com. Once a player is created, the HTML code is displayed to the user, allowing them to embed the widget into any HTML website, including blogs and social networking sites, such as Myspace.com.
What are the major changes in the website for the new release?
There is not one section of the site that did not get an overhaul. So to list them all would be way too much. You will just have to dig around and check it out. Primarily, we have focused on re-engineering the core structure of the site. Visually, the layout of Beatport 3.0 is much more organized and intuitive to use. There is significantly more navigation on each page to help a user discover music. A very new feature called “My Beatport” allows our customers to subscribe to an artist, label or genre. This is a powerful way to track your favorite content and find out when the artists and labels have new material. Its all contained in a small controller window that fits seamlessly into the navigation. This section of our site will grow dramatically with features in the near future. We are all very excited about its potential.
