Amazon's "As Heard On" website homepage

Without a doubt a great way for Amazon.com to capitalize on the popularity of American Idol, and continue getting their own piece of the downloaded music marketshare from iTunes and Apple.

Above and beyond American Idol though, how many times have you been watching TV and heard a song in the background of a scene or in a commercial and wondered what it was or who sang it. Perhaps my best example is the old eToys.com commercial that featured “Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World” by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.

What Amazon.com could really do to make this a great service though would be to allow you to search for songs by show title or commercial topic. Perhaps even putting in a date and time of the show you were watching to try and find the associated song. Now THAT would be cool. Almost like song tagging available on HD Radio and other services.

Go uncover some great music that was “As Heard On” by Amazon.com yourself

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I was just starting to get familiar with ODEO when I uncovered the fact that they’ve decided to re-launch and improve themselves again. I’ve been added to their private beta of their effort and from what I can already tell, I like the changes.

Thanks for participating in Odeo’s beta relaunch. You’ll notice we’ve changed a lot of things, including a complete re-design emphasizing search and discovery. We’ll be adding new features and updates, and will be listening to your feedback. Let us know what you like (and what we can do better) to make Odeo an enjoyable media experience.

I do like the re-organization and improvement of bringing what’s available boldly to the surface. With the original version of ODEO I got the impression it was about finding and collecting free music MP3’s around the web in a kind of peer-to-peer network. That kind of service in general doesn’t really appeal to me at all. The re-launch beta of ODEO seems to really be focused on the more commercial audio that’s available, mostly in podcast form. I really get the impression it’s like the iTune’s podcast directory.

Seems like a really good migration in my opinion. I’ll keep it in my list of sites to keep an eye on. To give it a look yourself, you can request a beta invite from the original ODEO site.

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Is it dead? I’ve done a few restores and resets and can’t get it to sync. Although on one hand I’d welcome the need to buy a new 160GB version. On the other hand, I don’t have the $400 to buy it with just laying around.

I’m really behind on my podcasts and kind of irritating since I just bought a new car radio where I can attach the iPod directly.

Anyone that might have an idea of how I can revive it, please let me know.

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Can I manually subscribe to a URL of the XML feed somehow?

If anyone out there knows the answer to this question, please let me know quick before I forget what podcast I’m trying to subscribe to and live the rest of my life missing out.

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