I wrote the other day about my experience with MediaMaster. I said I liked it, and that I was in the process of testing the claim that there are currently no upload limits. Here’s an update.
I uploaded around 5,000 songs into my account, thereby effectively confirming that there is no current limit. I can’t tell you exactly how many because the album cover-only library interface doesn’t give you this information. As I mentioned the other day, the library interface needs a major overhaul. Badly.
While the songs sound good over the internet, the system doesn’t handle huge libraries very well. I constantly get a message stating that “a script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player 9 to run slowly….” Slowly as in not at all. Since I doubt the MediaManager business plan was based around people like me putting thousands of songs in their libraries, I can look past this problem. But it does limit the service’s usefulness as a backup plan for large libraries. I have around 27,000 (legal and unshared) songs on my music server. It would take approximately the rest of my life to upload the rest of them.
I tried out the widget on Newsome.Org for a while, but the interface is (hopefully) a work in progress and it interferes with page navigation and scrolling while it loads. So it’s gone, at least for now. On a related note, unless Blonde 2.0 revisits my blog to counter-balance Randy, Mathew and Earl’s ugly mugs, I may have to lose the MyBlogLog widget too (I get those guys back by plastering my ugly mug on their pages every chance I get).
All of this is not to say that I am disappointed in MediaMaster. I think it is a neat service that will probably get better over time. It’s not (yet) a place where audiophiles can store and access their entire library, but it is a great way to store and access portions of your music. And it would be a great solution for those with more moderate music collections.
I like MediaMaster a lot now. I hope it gets even better.
