Rocudo is a site that lets you build widgets and provide them to your fans, so that they can plaster them all over the internet. It’s specifically designed to prevent ‘piracy’ – but still allow people (ie: potential fans and customers) to hear your music and get to like it.
They have tracking facilities, so you know where, when and how many of everything – and you can link your widgets into your favourite online stores (iTunes, eMusic, etc) so that people who find that they like your music can then go and purchase it from approved and legitimate locations.
Any good? Worth your time? Let us know what you think.
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Sounds interesting…you may also want to check out http://soundcloud.com/ as a possible feature here, looks promising!
(I’m not affiliated with soundcloud, I just couldn’t find a ‘contact’ or ‘suggest a site’ link anywhere)
The idea here sounds very cool, but perhaps the notion on what Rocudo is by the above description is perhaps misleading. The About Rocudo section of their site lists Widget creation as their third element behind their Rocudo.com destination, downloadable Studioware and then the widget creator. With that being the case, itis hard to know what their core focus is, and being in BETA rightfully gives them that cover. I would hope that they have a robust offering as itrelates to their analytics, otherwise spreading anything viral is of little worth.