Oboe Locker, by MP3 Tunes, is one of the promising free online music storage services. In the standard free version, Oboe offers you 1GB free storage, and with some luck you might get a free upgrade to unlimited free storage space.
Oboe Locker comes with sync software, allowing you to sync and listen to your music on any computer world wide, without the need for a VPN network with your home computer. The music player is web based, plays in your web browser.
So now, even when you’re at $tarbuck$ you can listen to your own music, without having to store it on your notebook.
Synchronizing your music with Oboe Sync is easy. If you use iTunes or Windows Media Player, Oboe Sync will automatically detect in what folder you have stored your music and propose you that folder for the synchronization. Alternatively you can also select your own folders.
The sync process itself is dynamic, using the maximum upload speed as long as nothing else communicates. When bandwith is needed for another service, Oboe Sync frees the upload highway. I can easily Skype while syncing.
Files in your locker benefit album art, unlimited album art is available in the Premium Service.
With Oboe Sync you can also download your Locker easily on any computer. Be careful if your audio files have digital protection such as DRM. Oboe Locker counts as a device.
Some features I’d like to see in a future version of Oboe Locker are a bandwith/upload throttle and certain plugins.
If you are in a network, Oboe can clog the network’s upload if the network isn’t dynamically configured. Yes that is all you home users with 2 or more computers at home.
Support for more media players, especially WinAmp since it is widely spread.
Plugins for fe. last.fm and also versions for portable devices with WiFi, or even 3G phones. Imagine how cool it could be to listen to ALL our music on your 3G phone with unlimited data plan, and not just to the size of your phone’s memory card.
And to exceptionally behave as a cool kid, I have 2 priority codes for Oboe Locker Free Unlimited, giving you immediate access to unlimited storage.
And if all that wasn’t cool enough yet, I also have 2 invites for JoostTM Beta. More about JoostTM Beta in another entry.
48 Hours from now on (Comments will not be taken into consideration anymore after Saturday 3th March, 2007 07.00PM GMT).
Earn your invite in the comments. Specify which invite you want… and be creative.
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1 Andrew Oh // Mar 1, 2007 at 6:55 pm// View all comments by Andrew Oh//
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hey great blog. Can I get a Joost invite? Thank you in advanced.
2 Andrew Oh // Mar 1, 2007 at 7:10 pm// View all comments by Andrew Oh//
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oh and my email is andrew.aoh@gmail.com I hope I get one!
3 Djizeus // Mar 1, 2007 at 9:40 pm// View all comments by Djizeus//
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You know my problem Franky, I am addicted to all kind of music related stuff. And because you want me to stay insane, you HAVE to allow me to have one more stuff to be addicted to, namely MP3 Tunes ! :)
4 Andrew Spearns // Mar 2, 2007 at 3:11 am// View all comments by Andrew Spearns//
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Hey, If you have any Joost invites left, please pass along any info! A.spearns@gmail.com
Thanks
5 Bug // Mar 3, 2007 at 3:48 am// View all comments by Bug//
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Joost:
If I had an invite to Joost,
I could stay in my office and roost,
In my excetutive chair,
and let down my hair,
and finally watch real internet t.v.
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Oboe:
I see you posses Oboe invites,
and I could sure make use of their unlimited bytes.
To store all of my tunes,
and spend all my afternoons,
Reveling in my musical delights ;)
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The above may very well be the two worst poems I’ve ever written but ya can’t say I didn’t try *chuckle* Seriously though, either invite would be fine by me…beggars can’t be choosers ;)
6 Franky // Mar 3, 2007 at 3:13 pm// View all comments by Franky//
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Due to huge popularity, I’ll stop right now and send an invite for both services to Bug. The two other participants have tried too hard to be creative.
Bug, your invites are on the way. Enjoy both services. ;-)
7 Franky // Mar 3, 2007 at 7:32 pm// View all comments by Franky//
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And DJZeus of course. I shouldn’t do this before I have drunk coffee!
8 steve // Mar 3, 2007 at 10:37 pm// View all comments by steve//
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I always seem to find out about these things after the invites are gone. Bummer.
Thanks for the heads up on Oboe Locker though. It looks worthwhile.
9 Franky // Mar 4, 2007 at 1:03 am// View all comments by Franky//
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Steve, I think as a backup service Oboe is great. Otherwise, I have my questions about the purpose, the sense of Oboe. But to back up? Great. My upload is totally noised since I have Oboe Unlimited. :-)
10 steve // Mar 4, 2007 at 1:13 am// View all comments by steve//
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Oh it would totally have to be a backup. Not a complete backup, because even if I had unlimited storage am I going to upload my 200gb of music? No way. But to have access to some of my music from anywhere could be pretty sweet.
11 Djizeus // Mar 4, 2007 at 1:14 am// View all comments by Djizeus//
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I also like the idea that I do not need my computer to listen to all my music. I can present some stuff to my friends, or listen to all my music when I spend a few days with my parents.
And yeah, the backup too.
12 Franky // Mar 4, 2007 at 1:19 am// View all comments by Franky//
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Djzeus, I like that factor too. I even discovered there are already players for certain smartphones, which is great. You can listen to your music anywhere!
But I’d love to see the API of Oboe get used more.. Such as in sidebar players aso. Right now I see no commercial, financial future for Oboe, but if they were to create some plugins for websites, they could easily cash in IMO.
And if the community doesn’t create those plugins (JSON still isn’t the most spread language among open source developers), they need to create MP3Tunes should IMO create them.
Just imagine that you could show off your whole music collection on your blog and if someone clicked on a track link, they could immediately buy the music from the Oboe store.
Right now it’s nothing more than a bandwith leech.
13 peter // Mar 11, 2007 at 1:40 am// View all comments by peter//
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Can I get an invitation? Thank you very much.
kangzb@gmail.com
14 voltrage // Apr 5, 2007 at 6:13 pm// View all comments by voltrage//
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I need joost, my mail is calate99@gmail.com |
15 end // Apr 5, 2007 at 6:53 pm// View all comments by end//
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can anyone send me one invite please?
thanks alot my email is end2791@gmail.com
16 Franky // Apr 5, 2007 at 7:04 pm// View all comments by Franky//
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I need some portion of etiquette ;-)
17 David Silva // May 1, 2007 at 7:13 pm// View all comments by David Silva//
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Would be nice one joost invite.
desenrascar (at) gmail (dot) com
18 Zorba // May 1, 2007 at 11:45 pm// View all comments by Zorba//
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I don’t suppose someone would be willing to invite me would they? inviteforjoost@gmail.com
19 Derrick // May 2, 2007 at 12:17 am// View all comments by Derrick//
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Nice…
I would love a joost invite if anyone is giving invites away.
meistari.derrick@gmail.com
Meistari Derrick
20 Andrew Oh // May 2, 2007 at 2:34 am// View all comments by Andrew Oh//
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I have 4 joost invites. I will give them out if you any of you guys are willing to trade it for a warcraft III cd key or frozen throne cd key. thank you in advanced. please do not email me if you don’t have those particular two cd keys. thank you.