19 Ways We Fixed Radio

Traditional radio is broken and its online brethren so far haven’t been much better. It’s repetitive, generic, non-interactive, and greatly ignores the individual user. Our dream at Songspin is to improve the music listening experience for the masses. 

Its amazing all the great music being created in the world that you’ll never hear on your local radio. Most radio stations stick to playing the same tunes over and over again because they can’t tell what people have already heard. If they could tell that I’ve heard a song twice today they SHOULD play me a different song but they CAN’T so they DON’T.

Until now the only solution is curating your own list of music but most people (ourselves included) don’t have the time it takes or want to put in the effort to put together a playlist of songs that meets their music listening needs. Even those that DO put their own music together probably don’t want to HAVE to in order to listen to what they like.  

The solution is an experience that allows a user to listen to continuous stream of music, chosen for them, customized to their interests, with limited repetition and lots of flexibility, wherever they want to listen to it.

Our music consuming solution is the best available anywhere on the planet because it meets these needs.

19 Ways We Fixed Radio

1. Pause when you’re busy. Then easily pick up where you left off.

2. Skip a song. No explanation needed.

3. Backup. Loving a song? Listen to it again, or 50 times. We don’t care, whatever makes you happy.

4. No Playlists. Playlists suck, here are the 2 main reasons:

a. They’re time consuming to put together

b. They don’t update themselves when new music comes out

Songspin radio stations are updated every day as new music hits the scene so you will hear something new every day.

5. Hate a song. Some songs just suck. If you hate it let us know with a single click and you’ll never have to hear it again.

6. Love a song. If you love a song, say so with a single click and we’ll remember it for future listening

7. No interruptions. “Free” radio currently makes you pay with your attention. High licensing costs make it impossible to offer free radio without audio ads. Its different at Songspin. We never interrupt your listening experience with annoying commercials.

8. Similar artist radio isn’t very good. See Grooveshark radio, Pandora, Jango, etc. The problem with similar artist radio is that it just doesn’t give you enough music to listen to continuously, because the algorithms for matching artists aren’t great and they miss a lot of the new music. It leads to small playlists and repetitive listening experiences. Similar artist radio can be PART of the solution but not the whole solution.

9. Discover who you’re listening to. See what you’re listening to now along with information on the band if you want to dig deeper such as their bio, concerts, pictures, news and more!

10. See who just played. If you heard a song 10 minutes ago that you loved easily backtrack and find it.

11. See who’s playing next. Keep tabs on what’s coming up and skip ahead if you just can’t wait.

12. We have more great music. Its amazing how much great music there is available in the world. Its equally amazing how little of it you ever hear. By following music tastemakers, blogs, and little known music charts we can compile a large list of really great music you’ve probably never even heard.

13. We cross borders. Songspin works the same in every country in the world and the same music is available everywhere.

14. Save your favorites. With Songspin you can save any song to your own playlist of favorite tracks and listen to them anytime.

15. Take your music with you. On your iPhone, iPad desktop laptop... wherever you are you can listen to your music and pick up one device where you left off on another. Keep your favourites, listen to your stations and hear great new music on the go.

16. Less repetition. Songspin remembers what you’ve been listening to and with so much great new music in our catalog you don’t have to worry about hearing the same songs over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ov...

17. Share with Friends. Easily share songs as you listen to social sharing sites like facebook and twitter.

18. All Killer, No filler. Every track you'll hear on Songspin is there because it was identified as great by tastemakers, bloggers and influencers around the world. We only play the best.

19. Its Free. We don’t charge anything for a premium listening experience. You can listen to great music without even creating a songspin account. Many radio stations give you a taste of what you’re looking for but charge for the full-meal deal. Its different here at Songspin... we believe music discovery and passive music listening should and can be FREE!

 

   Check us out at http://songspin.fm – we know you'll love what you hear!

 

 

 

Get our FREE Songspin iPhone app!

We're excited to announce that Songspin, our super-simple app for listening to the best music on the web, is now available on the iPhone App Store. Songspin lets you listen to custom stations of awesome music, hand picked by the greatest music experts on the web.  And now with the iPhone app you can listen to all your favorite songs anywhere. Best of all, it's FREE!

Anybody can use it. Just pick a station and start listening.  We'll play you a continuous stream of music chosen by the best tastemakers on the web. With the tap of a button, you can save songs to your own playlist and hear them anytime.

Playerpic

Features
• Over 20 stations of non-stop streaming music
• Listen to your favorite tracks anywhere
• Search our library of songs
• Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

Get it here: Songspin.FM iPhone App