Webjay

Playlists consisted of links to Vorbis, MP3, WMA, RealAudio and/or other audio files on the web.

[citation needed]A July 15, 2004 story in The New York Times titled "Multimedia Scrapbooks to Share" described the site this way: A handful of Web users are programming their own virtual TV newscasts and eclectic collections of video clips using a free media-sharing tool called Webjay (www.webjay.org).

The site makes it easy to build, share and watch playlists of audio and video links culled from around the Internet.

Inconsistent behavior: if you want your tunes (and associated images) to render as you expect, you're looking at an insane test matrix.

Despite all these irritations I find myself returning to Webjay for the same reasons I write this blog and read others.

When you click on a playlist, the site assembles the links into a seamless radio show that you can listen to without any messy downloading.

The client-side media player would play the URLs one after another, giving the cumulative impression of a single continuous stream.

Another independent developer created a web site to put Webjay and XSPF Musicplayer together.

As a result, it was used to embed music in pages on social networking sites such as Myspace, as a Web widget.

When Webjay was closed down by Yahoo!, other XSPF editing and generation tools took its place.