Wanted to take a few moments to point out an addition to the site we hope you’ll find helpful, something many of you have been asking about for a while now: RSS Feeds.
On Friday, we incorporated RSS feeds at several locations around the site – here’s what they do. You can add these simply by clicking the RSS Icon that should now be appearing in your address bar when you access eMusic:
BROWSE EDITORIAL: Adding the RSS feed on this page will give you updates every time we add a new piece of editorial to the site.
FRESHLY RIPPED: An updated feed of what’s new on eMusic
Clicking on the RSS icon from the eMusic Homepage will allow you to subscribe to:
eMusic Loves: Our hand-selected editorial picks of what’s hot.
Today’s Buzz: Our hand-selected editorial feature of the day
Most Downloaded: A feed of the eMusic Charts
Review of the Day: Our Review of the Day, delivered to your RSS reader.
Hope you enjoy these new ways of keeping up with what’s current on eMusic!
Nice feature.
Should you ever go adding more feed features, I would most love a way to subscribe to a band or label. That way I could be apprised of when specific new releases appear on the site. For instance Touch Records releases usually appear on eMusic several months after they are released.
Similarly, a feed that lets you know of new releases by any artist already in your downloads.
A great feature that I’ve been wanting a long time. It’s great that you’re working on improving your service like this. Unfortunately the feeds don’t work very well for me. Maybe it’s because I’m in Europe? I tried to add Today’s buzz to Google Reader, but I get a lot of old albums one by one instead of the buzz collections.
And as for the features feed, I can’t open any of the links in the feed.
I’ll take a look at that, Olf! And Steve – we’re working on the things you’ve mentioned.
Thanks for adding these feeds. Hate to say it, but you might need to add country-specific ones feeds to the to-do list as well
Thanks, as always, for the feedback. The appropriate people have been alerted.
You can expand the numbers added by
Changing http://www.emusic.com/rss/n/b/-n/a/0-50/65 538 68/0.html
to
http://www.emusic.com/rss/n/b/-n/a/0-250/65 538 68/0.html
and even more via doing individual Genres
(e.g. http://www.emusic.com/rss/n/b/-n/a/0-50/65 538 68 1200000284/0.html will give you 50 Alt/Punk Fresh rips)
” Hate to say it, but you might need to add country-specific ones feeds to the to-do list as well ”
No they don’t just do the rss from your freshly ripped and you’ll get (99.897% of the time) your country only
Great tip, Nergal!
I’m not really interested in a freshly ripped feed, at least not in the current format.
I’d be much more interested in these feeds, specific to my country:
eMusic Loves
Today’s Buzz
Review of the Day