Snaptune, the online radio service started by veteran technology entrepreneur Bill Baxter, has run into problems and appears to be on its last legs.

Cozi CTO Bill Baxter

Meanwhile, Baxter is now listed as the chief technology officer at Cozi, a Seattle Internet company that offers calendar, photo and planning tools to families.

In an e-mail, Baxter said he was surprised that someone noticed that Snaptune was not working. (The Web site is now down.) And the former chief executive at Bsquare said he was "disappointed" that they could not grow the business.

"We migrated the hardware to a new location and we're running into problems returning to full operations. We're working to resolve it," he said in the e-mail. "In the meantime, people have lost the song identification ... station directory services until they return to operational status. People will, however, be able to continue to record and timeshift and when these services are restored, all the songs for which they hadn't previously had identifying data (artist, title, etc.) will be identified."

David Pankiw, a Snaptune user from Montreal, encountered problems and error messages with the Web radio service last month. If the company has closed, Pankiw said, it should notify customers.

"The only plus side is that my Snaptune came with FM tuner and it still works with FM
radio stations," he said. "However, the Web radio was where things were really fun."

Snaptune's software allowed computer users to record and classify thousands of songs from Internet radio stations, a potential legal quagmire that I discussed in this March 2006 story on the company.

As to Baxter's new role, Cozi founder Robbie Cape said the company is happy to have him on board. He joined in January.

"Bill is an amazing technologist and we are so fortunate to have him in the CTO spot," he said.