While I realise that you have no intention of competing with Myspace – from a user perspective (i.e. me) the offering is similar. An online platform to research existing and new music. The BBC may not wish to commit what would be a huge amount of resource by allowing for streamed music. I was rather hoping that the API would allow for 3rd parties to use the aggregated data towards their own music streaming service.

Don’t get me wrong I think its brilliant that you have done this at all and what you have is a service/resource that I and many others will find hugely beneficial.

Rob

We’re not interested in being a competitor with MySpace. (If I’d been answering that question I’d have given you a diffrent answer from the one you quoted!) We think it’s important for our pages to be up to a similar standard to what our users expect from their usage of the web, but that is just about getting the basics right. For that reason, we think audio clips are important. But the primary function of our artist pages is to aggregate what we the BBC have to offer. Offering biographies, clips etc is a way to add value and ensure that any page a user can navigate to offers a satisfactory user experience.