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Great, great signup pathway. I actually enjoyed signing up.

Eh...the search is not that good. It seems like you're just searching Youtube? I opened up YT in another tab and then did the same searches, got [edit: many of] the same results. but clicking on a result in Moof would often take me to the wrong entry - ie a different video in the same search results.

So I'd click on 'Kate Bush hounds of love TOTP' and instead the video that would actually play would be 'Kate bush hounds of love JBU talent show', although it would still be labeled as the former.

Sorry, that's really broken. Scribble 'Alpha' on it somewhere and solicit more testing is my advice. I wasn't willing to send time finding out whether it could process my mp3 library or not.

Libraries. You know, I had my music in iTunes but I got sick of it, so when I intalled win 7 I actually moved it all back into media player. Unfortunately, Moof doesn't recognize these files. I know this is about as relevant as catering to the Zune market, and moof did say 'itunes' on the tin, so no harm no foul. Pity though.

Wow great domain name.

You guys should definitely A/B test the sign up form. It's pretty slick, but since it's unconventional it could cause people to bounce.

What does the domain name say to you, out of curiosity?

I'm curious too. I think the name is a bit too goofy. Moofy, perhaps.

Short, simple, kind of quirky, easy to remember. Four letter, coherent domain names (sorry rhta.com) are rare.

The sound that Clarus the dogcow makes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow

Indeed. “Moof” is Apple’s registered trademark. http://web.archive.org/web/20060814134839/http://www.apple.c...

They seem to have winnowed the list posted on their website between August and October 2006.

cow-i'd-like-to-f*ck

sorry, it's foul, but there you have it.

--Not a fan of these stupid web 2.0 domain names

It's Moof, not Moofr.

I joined and then tried to upload my iTunes library to see how it would work. It keeps on erroring out and I looked for a email address to send them the error and a copy of my library to help out, but I can't seem to find any contact info on the site.

Edit: In case they are looking here the error is:

  Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in /home/moof/public_html/upload.php(49) : eval()'d code on line 111427

Doesn't work in Opera 10 b2 (which passes Acid3) or IE8. Both claim I don't have Flash or have Javascript disabled (incorrect) and the playlist also doesn't look right in IE. What's the deal?

Also, it claims to back up my iTunes library, which it doesn't actually seem to do. For some songs, even with correct ID3 info, it either guesses wrong or says "not found".

I guess I'm not seeing the point of this site.

Nice domain name indeed. I can't see what I'm typing into the sign-up box. Probably because I've Firefox's (3.5.1) auto filling engine turned on. Here's a screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/MM7Vnoikb. Also, I don't really like the cutesy whimsical sentencey signup prose, I'm afraid. Give me B, if there is one.

Minor quibble from my 1st impression: Not really into the signin / signup form. From a usability perspective it just seems like it deviates a lot from what most users are familiar with. I like the narrative take on signin / signup but I think it would work better if the underlined sections were typical input boxes.

I've always thought a YouTube jukebox would be a good idea. If this gets popular, though, there's no question it will be shut down, if not by the RIAA then by YouTube itself.

My feedback: needs more AJAX. Clicking items in the interface like "friends" or "music" shouldn't reload the page and stop the playing song. Also, get rid of modal dialogs. (For example, when adding a song or playlist, give it a default name instead of asking for a name in a modal dialog.) Also, don't ask for my real name up front; wait until later.

Sites like this are being allowed to operate with US users IP blocked.

I wish I could use it without signing up.

I can get to the upload page if I'm not logged in at http://moof.com/upload, but when I try to upload my library, I am redirected to the home page. This holds true for some of the other pages as well.

The profile page doesn't work properly in Safari.

http://14.media.tumblr.com/Yu1jEumPRq2u4f50AVTd6BOwo1_400.pn...

I tried the site in Opera 10, IE8 and IE8 in compatibility mode. None of the above actually allowed me to play a song.

The sign up form is pretty awesome, though.

Cool signup / login forms. I haven't seen that approach before; makes it more interesting than traditional signup. Kudos.

This reminds me a bit of Grooveshark-- let me give it a try and compare, though.

The big difference is that Grooveshark is not a YouTube scraper. Much better quality of music on Grooveshark, but crappy UI.

My first reaction was, how is this different from Lala.com?

Whoever made that screenshot has excellent taste in music.

Created an empty play list but couldn't populate it.

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