Comments on: Facebook Boombox App Taken Down by Developer

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:46:42 +0000

I miss this app so much! and I have experience witting code, I might try to bring it back from memory if the suggest applications don’t allow for outside content.

By: D

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:22:44 +0000

Thanks for blogging about this! I just noticed that Boombox is gone from my profile, and I was wondering what the heck was going on!

It would be have been nice if Facebook had sent me some kind of notification after removing something from my profile without my control or knowledge.

By: FrankFrank

FrankFrank — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:02:29 +0000

Damn! I have also had this app for several months. I loved it. I knew it was only a matter of time before it went down though….

By: Garage Storage Los Angeles

Garage Storage Los Angeles — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:19:04 +0000

I just noticed today that it wasn’t on, have to admit, don’t log on to any friend networks much anymore and was bummed out. Quick google sends me here and lo and behold everything becomes clear. I liked that app alot, probably the coolest no brainer music app ive seen. Expecially since I just loaded what I wanted rather than having to find the song on a myspace fan account and wait for their geeks to find it and erase the source. That used to piss me off

By: Dan Buell

Dan Buell — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:21:33 +0000

Please let me know if you find a good replacement!

By: Dani

Dani — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:43:03 +0000

yeah this pissed me off so much! I thought I’d mistakenly deleted it or something until I couldn’t find it in the application search. :/ And it did fit right in with the rest of the page design too. Oh well, guess I’ll spend the next hour or so searching for a replacement.

By: Dan Buell

Dan Buell — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:47:23 +0000

This is unfortunate as this was my single favorite application on Facebook…

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:22:03 +0000

Boombox was the best! Where did it go? It was just starting to take off too. You could browse your friend’s music and make playlists to display on your Facebook page, all without infringing on anyone. The music files on Boombox were collected from accessible mp3s across the net – If you could link to it and listen to it, you could post it on your Boombox. Boombox never touted illegal downloading, keeping the download links to the songs hidden from listeners. It also had links to I-tunes so you could purchase the songs you liked the best. It is sad that simply because this program was of such high quality, it caught enough attention to attract the blood-sucking lawyer jockey that shut this guy down.

By: for the record - 憎爆RIAA

for the record - 憎爆RIAA — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:10:27 +0000

[...] 後來從這裏找到這個group，Boombox作者將app拿掉，自己也潛水去，看來又是RIAA搞事，真係DLS。 [...]

By: Ryan B

Ryan B — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:58:25 +0000

Well, I will tell you right now he hasn’t fled from his facebook account. He just has every single one of the privacy filters on to where you cannot search for him. If you go to this group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2365793283&ref=mf It is PLAIN AS DAY that he is clearly still the ADMINISTRATOR for the group if you look in the RIGHT HAND COLUMN. I am glad I found this article, it takes out my frustration at why would he remove such a wonderful application with the classic Facebook blue look and the ability to upload any song that I like listening too. Thanks for presenting this article that covers this application with this situation. I think Adam Mosseri is probably pressured by lawsuits which is too bad. It is music for peeps sake. I think the RIAA can just kiss it for all I care.