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22tracks Favorites — Subscribe to DJ curated genre playlists in four cities.
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@venz This is awesome dude! We are trying to do something similar with our slack channel #music (www.hashtagmusic.audio). We too believe recommendations from friends and crate diggers are the best.
@andrew_mewborn agree! And thanks! I love those additions of music (or Product Hunt Daily for example) in Slack. We send each other new tunes all the time in our 22tracks HQ Slack. But to be fair, it's not an ideal way to share and (especially) save your best finds. We'll probably / hopefully see an app soon that's dedicated to friend recommendations only (and not depending on an official catalogue like Spotify).
@eriktorenberg nice question :) When you look at services like Spotify Radio you just know that machine curation doesn't work AT ALL. It's terrible.
So I would say that there's no ideal balance, but what works if machines curate AFTER humans. See Hypem and Shuffler. Charting the blogs. Or my Soundcloud stream. Right now that's a disaster when you follow a lot of artists/labels/blogs. This could and should be solved easily. I already curated the accounts I follow, but there's no option to see their most trending tunes.
Machines shouldn't curate. They should just facilitate the process of discovery.
@shalabh_ thanks! That's our minimalistic view powered by Microsoft (one of my favorite brand collabs we did).
We've been having lots of talks in Berlin, NYC, LA, Capetown, Istanbul and Tokyo already. Who knows what will happen in the near future. For now we're focussing on branching out offline, with a dedicated 22tracks festival in a forest near Amsterdam. You're all invited! http://22fest.nl
This is really rad. I tried www.upbeatapp.com, however the tunes on there haven't seemed to change in a over a month. I am very excited to try this.
Good Idea! Add more cities..I am really missing Berlin there. I would like say that (my) Prague should be there as well, but I do not dare to say that..before you add Berlin :)
Decent music collection but the music autoplays on desktop... Not a big fan of that.
@irvingtorresyc hi Irving, understandable! We've had our fair amount of discussions about the autoplay topic. It's more user friendly how Youtube and Soundcloud autoplay direct links and not playlist/set/channel links. But being a music discovery service, we always want to welcome you in a genre you normally wouldn't listen to. Say Tropical. We've got the most amazing African and Latin music on there, but you wouldn't necessarily find that out if you don't land inside this musical feast.
@mrdobelina we've got a fair amount of diggers curating too and listeners who are (vinyl) collectors, so you know!
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