San Francisco - Sonific, a provider of licensed music widgets and free music applications for social media, said on Tuesday that it will take its service offline "as a consequence of the unworkable music licensing situation and the resulting lack of solid revenue modeling," co-founder and CEO Gerd Leonhard wrote in a note on Sonific.com. The company had attracted 80,000 users to its service and amassed a library of over 200,000 licensed songs.

San Francisco - Sonific, a provider of music applications and widgets for online communities, on Tuesday announced plans to release its Music Application Program Interface (MusicAPI) to record labels, music companies and social media platforms later this year. The service will let labels, publishers and artists connect with hundreds of social networks and online communities, and opt-in their music catalogs for streaming on the sites, as well as link to e-commerce sites like iTunes, eMusic, Amazon and Wippit. Advertising will be integrated into the widgets and MusicAPI itself, revenue from which Sonific will share with content providers.

San Francisco - Sonific, a provider of licensed music widgets and free music applications for social media, on Wednesday launched the Sonific Music Network, which lets any record label or artist add their music to Sonific's catalog and make their own streaming music widgets. The SongSpots widgets, which already span some 150,000 tracks, can be embedded on blogs, social networks, photo-sharing sites and personal websites.