Remember when music start-ups were such a source of frustration for me? Now I really enjoy some of them! Chief among them is ex.fm, which my friend Mark showed me just the other day. Possibly the most useful Google Chrome extension that doesn’t involve a Google product.
What does it do? It sniffs out all the mp3s on a page and stores them temporarily in the extension, which allows you to browse away from their source while you listen via a sleek player. I’ve been playing Mark’s blog like a mixtape thanks to it, as well as blogs like Songs from Treme and more.
Now if it could just travel back in time to 2003…