Exfm launched last year under the moniker ExtensionFM, and touted itself as an easy way to scrape music blogs for all the free MP3s that they offer. Those MP3s were then organized into playable tracklists, letting you listen to a constant stream of jams without having to actually read reviews.
The company later relaunched the plugin as Exfm, a version 2.0 packed with new features, including integration with Last.fm, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Now users could collect MP3s as they browsed, and share them via their social networks. They could also follow other users and tastemakers, and see what tunes were on others’ radars.
The free iOS app is basically the mobile iteration of that service, a new tool that lets users take all the music the y’ve discovered on the go, as well as get suggestions from other users. And, of course, all the tracks can be purchased in-app.
Here’s how the whole deal works: If you don’t already have Exfm installed, do so, you’ll still need the web version to get the complete experience (the mobile iteration does not yoink MP3s from blogs you visit on your iPhone). Go about your regularly scheduled surfing, letting the web plugin pluck the sweet musical fruit from the wordy blog trees. Listen to jams via the plugin, and “Note” those that you like — this is basically Exfm’s version of “Liking.”
When you fire up the Exfm app on your walk home (there’s no offline caching, sadly, so it won’t work on the train), all of your “Noted” songs with be in a listenable stream. If you’re like me, you download about 20-plus free MP3s per day, and it can be a pain to drag those all over to iTunes and add them to...
