Recorded music has been one of the most popular holiday gifts for ages, but digital music generally makes a trickier gift due to DRM and the fact that there’s nothing to unwrap.
GBox‘s digital music wishlist widget could work nonetheless. The process fairly simple; you create an account, search for the music you want people to buy for you, add it to the widget, and then embed that anywhere HTML is used (custom code is available for Campusbug, Classmates, Friendster, MySpace, and myYearbook, or you can use the standard one). Each track runs the buyer $0.99.
GBox is also available as an application within Facebook. When I tested it just now, the wishlist I had created on gBox didn’t show up, so users might have to create a new version of the wishlistif they to post it there.
Although gBox’s music catalog is a bit lacking, you can specify that youwant only DRM-free MP3s, which is agreat feature (some songs are only available as DRM-ed WMAs). Plus, it’s easy to preview and add the music you domanage to find to your wishlist, which can be reordered viadrag-and-drop.
Here’s what a gBox’ wishlist looks like:
I don’t think these make much sense to use with people withwhom you’re going to spend the holidays, but I can see themcoming in really handy for college students who’re away from each other duringthe holidays, or for casual online acquaintances who want to buy each other something small but significant.
