I’m drinking the kool-aid. I love ex.fm.

It’s essentially Delicious + iTunes. A bookmarking service with an audio player interface.

There are a few things making the service more difficult to use than it should be (no shuffle, automatically adding every site I visit, UX confusion between the Queue, Library, and Noted playlists, Chrome only, etc.), but I’m hopeful these things will be sorted out soon.

Regardless, my music listening habits have drastically altered in the last month because of it.

Anyhow, if you are using it… here are a few sites that are consistently filling my library with great music. And if you have suggestions of sites I should check out, let me know on twitter: @htmiguel

• http://graveyardshiftin.com
• http://colinnagy.com
• http://blog.qzen.dj
• http://imunderpressure.com
• http://britticisms.tumblr.com
• http://jess-sukka.tumblr.com
• http://thefamilyrecords.tumblr.com
• http://blog.inlovewiththerisk.com
• http://impertinence.tumblr.com
• http://jonkmusic.com

It’s impossible for us to count the number of great ideas that folks have sent us in the past for exfm.  It’s also impossible for us to get them all into the product as quickly as we would like.  To that end, we’ve decided to launch a section of our site called labs, where we’re going to launch cool ideas from our users that are still a bit away from being integrated within the complete exfm experience.

Our first labs release is called BlogFinder (aka The Super Awesome Music Blog Finder Thingy).

It’s dead simple: go to ex.fm/labs/blogfinder and enter your lastfm username.  The tool uses your lastfm play data and the magic of The Echonest’s api’s to suggest music blogs for you to check out. Not all of them have mp3’s that work well with exfm (blogs: use our API!), but we know you’ll find tons of great content on the suggested blogs.

If you have a cool idea for exfm labs, let us know!

We are happy to announce we just released 2.0.4 to the Chrome Web Store. This release has a bunch of improvements, bug fixes and one new cool feature.

Recommendations For You

After releasing version 2, we (the exfm team) sat back and listened to a ton of new music noted by all the people we follow. A lot of the songs were great and each of us noted many tracks. After a few days, we realized that with all the new music flowing in, there was a ton of it that slipped by without getting the attention it deserved. We set out to build a way to correct this and ‘Recommendations for you’ was born. Under your Noted tab, you will now see this new section. It holds all the great music that everyone you follow likes but you have not yet noted. We will continue to tweak this but wanted to get it out there as soon as we could.

Infinite Scroll

You will also notice that lists which previous stopped at 50 songs now can be scrolled until the end. Your Noted Songs, people you follow’s Noted Songs and your Activity Feed can all be scrolled this way.

There are also many other small fixes in this release. One major thing people have been asking for is a way to reset your password if you forgot it. You can now do that from the Settings page. Please continue to email, tweet and let us know anyway you can how we are doing. As always, we appreciate all the support you’ve given us. Version 2 was a major release for us, and the amount of feedback you all gave us helped us push this release out and is helping us shape version 3. Thanks!