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Ultimate music search and discovery

At Qbox, we’ve always felt that the best way to consume music was through an intuitive (intelligent, social, and/or random) discovery process rather than direct, keyword-based search.  There are numerous ways to discover and listen to music at Qbox other than search:

  • Browse by genre and/or artist
  • Follow the pink swirl for Qbox-recommended tunes, based on our proprietary recommomendation algorithm
  • Rely on your friends to guide you to their favorite music through Music Feed
    … etc.

The first few months of our beta service, however, have taught us that searching for specific songs or artists is a crucial part of our users’ behavior.  In fact, a majority of our users start their music discovery process from search.  Perhaps this is Google’s influence.  Whatever the reason, it became evident that we need to provide the ultimate music search experience at Qbox.

Over the next few weeks and months, we will start rolling out our newly-designed music search product.  It will take a few months at least to get to the “ultimate” search experience, but some things will start happening much sooner.  Stay tuned.

Del.icio.us Music

If you come across music you like in MySpace, YouTube, or Bebo, gently press on the Qbox toolbar. You can build your music library filled with music links you bookmarked. Learn more

internet MUSIC explorer

Qbox Player enables you to enjoy music in different social networks such as MySpace, YouTube, and Bebo AT ONE PLACE. Download here

Tune your blog


Blog is your identity. You express your point of view, show your feelings, share your tastes.

Qbox InPlayer enables you to voice your emotion with your music selection. Decorate your blog with the background music of your sentiment.

Dreaming of a world where all webpages play music

If you are crazy about music, there must be some music you want to hear when you see a certain thing: a word, sentence, expression or article on the web. Qbox don’t want to miss out on that music playing in your mind.

With the Music Tagging feature of Qbox Toolbar, you can remember all the web-pages you’ll see by putting music there.

Someday, as time goes by, music will soak into every single web-page in the world.

Link to music from Google and Wikipedia

Google and Wikipedia arrange and provide music information better than any other webpage – except for the fact that we cannot directly listen to the music. Ironically, however, numerous websites offer services to listen to the same music.

Qbox aims to fill such gap. With the Qbox toolbar, you can instantly transform Google and Wikipedia into music service sites. Simply by clicking on the Qbox toolbar after searching an artist in Google or Wikipedia, you can listen to music on MySpace, Youtube and Bebo through ‘Link to Music’ or a link automatically established to these sites.

Music is happiness (or vice versa)

What is Emotional Link?

“Is there a way to listen to an endless list of songs of similar feelings?”

 
This aspiration motivated us to try identifying “emotionally similar” songs based on the analysis of songs played in the play list. The effort created the one and only “Emotional helix” created by a community of users that evolves with time.
 
As more people listen to more music, Emotional Link will become more comprehensive.
 
Songs with no Emotional Link mean that the song has not been played much (we call it ‘missing link’).
 
A helix-shaped, music-driven world is just around the corner!