Instead, the initial landing page upon first launch is the “Discover” section where you can find people’s music profiles to follow and immediately begin playing their favorites. You don’t even have to login before beginning to stream music. This Shazam-like function, available today, lets users tag the music they hear using Gracenote‘s technology, and they can then add those tracks to their own playlists. market this October, co-founder Stefan Vosskoetter told us that an iOS application was in the works, which would also introduce a new feature: music identification. When the company raised its seed round and entered the U.S. launch, the startup has grown to around 100,000 users – still quite a small crowd, but one fairly obsessed with music discovery. With a Twitter-like “following” model, users can find others based on how they’ve tagged themselves (i.e., by style of music – “alternative,” “folk,” “electronic,” “hip-hop,” “soul,” etc.). Since its U.S. Initially attracting a core audience of music enthusiasts, Musicplayr now also appeals to those who may be more interested in just finding new music, not organizing it themselves. In fact, that was co-founder Stefan Vosskoetter’s, a Tumblr user himself, original inspiration. It’s like a Tumblr blog of embeds, but one that has a play button.
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The startup doesn’t have deals with record labels, because it’s only aggregating music hosted elsewhere on the Internet – it’s not storing the songs on its own servers.
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The app brings the key features from the online service to mobile, including the ability to explore profiles and discover new music, stream songs and playlists, create playlists, and more.įor those unfamiliar with Musicplayr, the service debuted in 2011, offering users a way to pull tracks from sites like SoundCloud, YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion and various music blogs, and organize them into streamable playlists. Following its €500,000 seed round this fall, Berlin-based music startup Musicplayr, which acts something like a playlist of tracks you build from various cloud services, is now available as an iOS application.