TuneCore, a digital media distribution company specializing in the placement of music and video in various online music stores, relaunched their popular media widget this week with a host of new features. TuneCore artists can include up to 100 tracks of their music distributed via TuneCore in the media widget with a few simple clicks. The new widget can be loaded with whatever music, videos, photos, tour dates, band info an artist wants to include.

The new media widget also takes advantage of the social web and can be shared on Facebook, MySpace and other websites and is also capable of publishing your twitter stream within the widget.

• Streams up to 100 tracks in full.
• Has an optional Donate To The Band link.
• Links to the iTunes Store from each track.
• Join button collects fan emails and other information.
• New menu offers a band bio and tour dates.
• Streams video clips tied to YouTube and contains photo gallery via Flickr.
• Can be shared on any website, including Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, etc.
• Publishes Twitter feeds automatically.
• Pops out from page on which it’s embedded.

Check out a working example of the new TuneCore widget here.

About TuneCore

TuneCore was launched in 2006 by Jeff Price and offers digital distibution of music and video through various online retailers including Itunes, Amazon Mp3, Rhapsody and others. TuneCore offers placement of songs and albums for $.99 per song, $.99 a store per album with a yearly maintenance fee per release between  $9.99 and $19.98. The Artist retains control of all of their rights and receives 100% of the revenue from the sale of their music.