Magnatune blog

https support at Magnatune

I've just finished adding https support for Magnatune, which you can reach at https://magnatune.com.

I've also confirmed that we are not vulnerable to the Heartbeat vulnerability.

Note that graphics and audio files are not provided via https, but everything else is. All modern browsers work: I tested IE10, Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Older versions of IE (IE8/IE6) do not work with our https support.

The only bug I know about with our https support is that using the search feature takes you out of https mode. Also note that https mode is not available in the download member version of the web site. Both of these are on my to-fix list.

ps: one big motivator for adding this support was that we were accidentally listed on the "experimentally approved" list of EFF's excellent HTTPS EVERYWHERE plug in and magnatune didn't actually work with https yet!

2nd generation iPhone app released

We've just released a second generation Magnatune iPhone/iPad app:

New features:

This app has a visual approach to finding music, by sliding around album covers.

A playlist is automatically kept up to date in the background, so you can queue up several albums for listening.

You get to indicate which genres of music you like (or don't like), and then in all browsing only albums in those genres are shown.

There is a new "hot" albums page (again, you can limit it to display only genres of music you like).

There is also a new "radio" feature with many subtle playlists that we've brought in from our MoodMixes background music for business. "Blissful World" "Chilled Electronica" "Classy Classical", and more

You can make your own playlists, favorite and share music via social networks

you can download music to your iPhone/iPad for offline listening.

the current version is iPhone only, but we have a universal version in beta testing, which should be released shortly.

Here are some screen pictures:

For those of you who prefer a more traditional music app, modeled after Apple's own music app, we're continuing to develop our first generation iPhone/iPad app, which you can download here. We have a new version of this app currently in beta as well.