We are very proud to announce the all new Interface video show. The Interface has lived for years inside Spinner as a series of blog posts and an accompanying video podcast. Over the years, The Interface has showcased up and coming artists including Amy Winehouse's first US appearance in 2007. While the blog format has served everyone well, we felt it was time to truly give The Interface the love it deserved.

The Interface now lives at http://www.spinner.com/interface. There you will find links to past episodes including Sigur Ros, Grizzly Bear, Neko Case and more. Over the coming weeks, we will add all the past episodes, hang in there. We love Spoon's 2007 performance as much as you do!

Once you click on an episode, you will be greeted with an all new widescreen video player. You can easily skip songs, view performance pics, read about the artist and leave your own comments. You can also subscribe to the Podcast within iTunes or any other media player.



We hope you enjoy the new format. As always, we welcome your feedback - we would love to make this even better!

We are pleased to announce the latest addition to our family - Where It's At. Where It's At is the ultimate pop culture treasure map. Have you ever wanted to know where the hospital from Grey's Anatomy is really located? How about the real Hotel California? You can find all these historical pop culture spots and more on Where It's At.



Know something we don't? You can submit spots to us and get on the map.



Go ahead and explore. Have fun! We bet you'll find a spot you never knew existed.

We just pushed some new features live on Streampad - full screen mode and real time buddylist.

Full Screen Mode

Let's say you are having a party. You have lots of friends over and you are all grooving out to a Streampad playlist. It would be really cool if you could show off that playlist on your monitor or big screen tv. Well, now you can! On the bottom right of Streampad, you should see a new full screen button. Click that and you will be taken into full screen mode. You can use your mouse to advance through tracks, pause or adjust the volume. Hit ESC or the close button on the upper right to exit full screen mode. You can also use keyboard shortcuts:

Play/Pause - SPACEBAR
Next Track - RIGHT ARROW
Previous Track - LEFT ARROW
Volume Up - UP ARROW
Volume Down - DOWN ARROW





Real Time Buddylist

Streampad now can show you who on your buddylist is listening to music - in real time! If you open up the 'Profile' drawer, in addition to seeing a 'HISTORY' tab, you will now see a 'BUDDIES' one as well. Clicking on it will show you who on your AIM buddylist is listening to music at that exact moment. You will see buddies that are listening in Streampad (as long as they have enabled the 'Update AIM status with current song') as well as buddies who have set their AIM status to show their current song on Winamp or iTunes with their AIM client.

Yesterday we introduced a new and exciting product on The Boot. It is called Socialthing and allows you to connect with other people on the site as well as your buddylist. It sits unobtrusively at the bottom of the page, and offers features such as chat, IM and site updates.



Once you sign in, you will get access to your entire buddylist. You can send and receieve instand messages as well as easily send your buddies a link to the page you are on.



There is also a chat feature will will allow you to chat with other people that are on the site the same time as you. This is a great way to connect with other country music fans.



In addition, when you leave comments on the site, you will have the opportunity to share those comments with your buddylist. You can optionally send your comments to your buddy feed. This feed shows up in AIM for your buddies to see.

We hope you enjoy Socialthing and all the new features it brings to The Boot. We'd love to hear what you think about it.

The all new Streampad site is now live! We've made things even easier for you to put Streampad on your site. In addition to supporting Tumblr, we now have custom plugins for Wordpress, Blogger and Typepad. If your site is running on something else, don't worry, we have you covered too.

Streampad has always been customizable, but until now you had to have some basic web development skills to know what you were doing. That is no longer the case. We have rolled out an all new Customize feature right on the site. You can choose colors from a drop down as well as choose which features you want to include on your site. It's simple and fun!



We also rolled out a Who Has It section which features sites sporting Streampad. It is a great way to find new music. Click around and discover some of the best music sites on the web.



In addition, we now have a Developers page. At the moment, it is pretty basic, but we will soon be documenting all the events and ways you could mashup Streampad on your page.

We hope you enjoy the new site and we hope you enjoy Streampad. We are continuously adding new features and want to hear from you. Tell us what you love and tell us what you hate. We are comitted to making Streampad the easiest and best way to deliver music on your site.

We are pleased to announce that you can now upload, crop and save your profile picture from your profile page. Your profile picture is your AIM icon. Previously, you could change your picture only through the AIM client application. Starting today, you can do it straight from the browser.

To get started, visit your profile page at http://music.aol.com/profile
Make sure you are logged in.

Right under your profile picture will be a link to "Edit Icon". After clicking that, a window will pop up which will allow you to select an image from your computer, crop it and then set it as your new profile picture. In addition to your profile picture, this will replace your AIM icon as well.



Please note that Flash 10 is required for this.

We are very excited to announce two new major features for listening to music on our site.

Listening History

You are now able to keep track of what you listened to across AOL Music. Whether it be on CD Listening Party, Spinner Mp3 of the Day or anywhere else. On the bottom right of the Streampad player is a little profile button. Click it and you will see your history. You have to be signed in to access this feature.



Your History also appears on your profile page. You can make this public if you want and share what you listened to with the world.

Check out my profile - http://music.aol.com/profile/DanielKantor07/



AIM

In addition, we also added the ability to update your AIM status with what you are listening to. Just check the box "Update AIM status with current song" within Streampad and you will be able to show your entire buddylist what you are listening to.

You may have noticed a shiny new video player on our video pages. This new and improved player is faster and more lighweight than our old one. It also supports an enhanced full screen mode. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

As you may have noticed, we changed the way you sign in to our pages. In the past, clicking the blue Sign In / Register button on the top right of the page would open a mini sign in box. We received lots of feedback from you complaining about some content or ads blocking this box. We listened to you and believe we came up with a better and easier solution to signing in. Clicking on the button will now take you to a new Sign in page. After Signing in, we take you back to the page you came from.



Signing into AOL Music allows you to leave comments, keep track of what you listened to as well as create your own profile page to show off your musical tastes. If you don't have an account (AOL and AIM accounts work), you can create one here. It is free and easy.