The CEO of Sonific, Gerd Leonhard has brought to my attention that a new feature has been introduced with Sonific’s product, SongSpots(TM). Users of SongSpots(TM) can now kick up the level of entertainment a notch in their eBay product listings by embedding SongSpots(TM) supported music.

How you ask? For a detailed explanation, I’ll refer to Leonhard’s blog:

1) Register with Sonific (yes, it’s free, easy, and instant)
2) Pick any song from our approx 40,000 artists and click on ‘USE’ (yes… we are adding new ones all the time). Use our Find SongSpots search to get to the cool stuff quickly (try the Featured Artists which are listed in each genre).
3) On the next page, name your songspot, provide the EXACT location where the songspot will be (you may have to come back and re-do this later since ebay generates that URL only after you post your auction), and pick EBAY from the drop down menu. Then hit the ‘activate’ button.
4) Copy the code on the bottom of the page (one click does it), and drop it into the Item Description box of your auction post (see below) Note that the Sonific SongSpot code must be unaltered and needs to go exactly in this box (not somewhere else).

5) Preview your auction — it should look something like this

6) Submit – and voila, your sonified auction!

Other features of Sonific’s products include the ability to purchase music in “just a few clicks” which was enhanced by a partnership between Sonific and UK-based music download site, Wippit.

Sonific LLC announced today that it has introduced a new public beta launch of its service, SongSpots(TM). SongSpots(TM) offers a user-friendly and fully LEGAL way to add music to blogs, social networks (that allow you to embed them), and other personal websites for FREE.

Sonific has a massive music library that features thousands of songs created by independent artists and provided by many record labels. This music streams through embedded Adobe Flash players (aka widgets) which can be customized. When one of your website readers discovers your embedded SongSpots(TM) music player, they can click on the link to learn more about the featured artist and purchase songs from their affiliates such as Apple’s iTunes.

This model has worked well for Sonific since during a private trial, over 10% of the active embedded SongSpots(TM) were clicked-on and many of these clicks led to follow-up purchases. Many SongSpot(TM) users raved about the simplicity of SongSpots(TM) setup and unique user interface.

Gerd Leonhard, Founder and CEO of Sonific, stated “Many web pages are starting to look and feel almost like TV channels,and many of their creators now want music. The tremendous response to our private beta shows that today’s social network users, bloggers, and even casual users who create their own content online, are very excited about using music to personalize their online creations. Going forward, Sonific’s unique technology and deep content relationships will enable us to play a leading role in providing licensed music to online content creators while building an increasingly viral and powerful syndication network for music. Our users get the benefit of using great music, and our artists and content providers gain the benefit of getting both widespread attention and increased music sales at zero cost.”

Sonific was created in July 2005 for the purpose of providing a large catalog of music for private and promotional purposes. Leonhard co-founded Sonific with Gunnar Östergrena, a former IT architect and technology executive at Cap Gemini.