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Twitter Launches New Music App for iOS and Web
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well you obviously arent their targeted demo as those r actually what most people listen to apparently
yeah, this app seems more like a wrapper bundling everything together rather than helping the situation -- I have the same issue with music discovery-type apps... Old fashioned word-of-mouth still is the best source for me!
I find using the Spotify App "Moodify" is a pretty great discovery tool. Every time I use it I discover another artist or two I've never heard of before that I love (a surprisingly huge amount of them are from northern Europe...)
I fail to see how Twitter will make money from this app. Is Spotify sharing their "barely keeping up running"-revenue with Twitter? Is Twitter showing ads? Is Apple sharing money with them? How are they getting iTunes previews anyways - does Apple actually have a public API for that? (Or is this another instance of Apple picking favorites where only one company is given access to an API, the same as MathType being the only company Apple gave the APIs to make iWork plugins for.)
I fail to see how Twitter will make money from this app. Is Spotify sharing their "barely keeping up running"-revenue with Twitter? Is Twitter showing ads? Is Apple sharing money with them? How are they getting iTunes previews anyways - does Apple actually have a public API for that? (Or is this another instance of Apple picking favorites where only one company is given access to an API, the same as MathType being the only company Apple gave the APIs to make iWork plugins for.)
Yeah this is kinda DOA. You already have to have a subscription to Spotify or Rdio for it to fully work as a discovery tool outside of iTunes previews. Seems like a ton of work for little return. Im not about to key in every artist I have in my collection. And I don't care to share everything I'm listening to with all my twitter or facebook friends. Plus do the majority of us care about most of the garbage 14 year olds are listening to since it will be hijacked? Pandora has been the best so far. Ive discovered soooo music that way.
I can't imagine this is any worse than iTunes Genius selections. These still suck big time. As my title suggests I'm a big jazz fan. 95% of music library is made up of jazz. Genius finds the 20 pop tunes my wife added and rotates them in and out of all the Genius selections.
I have to agree with this Twitter release doing exactly the same. It knows only the crap pop music that most all of you listen to, and it will think i want to hear the same and tell me how important it is for me to listen too.
If it does get just one of you to open your ears and realize that 4/4 isn't the be all end all and that vocals can work without gymnastic embellishments than it will not be a total waste.
I have to agree with this Twitter release doing exactly the same. It knows only the crap pop music that most all of you listen to, and it will think i want to hear the same and tell me how important it is for me to listen too.
If it does get just one of you to open your ears and realize that 4/4 isn't the be all end all and that vocals can work without gymnastic embellishments than it will not be a total waste.
Installed it. Nice execution.
It helps if you have an rdio account. Otherwise you are listening to short jarring bursts of random music with no cross fade.
I wonder if twitter now has a revenue stream from the iTunes store being a vector for referral to album purchases now?
Good way to capitalize on twitter users.
It helps if you have an rdio account. Otherwise you are listening to short jarring bursts of random music with no cross fade.
I wonder if twitter now has a revenue stream from the iTunes store being a vector for referral to album purchases now?
Good way to capitalize on twitter users.
Apple: "Let's add social to iTunes. Yeah! We'll call it Ping."
Twitter: "Let's add iTunes to social. Because we desperately need a media content infrastructure."
I do use twitter. When it comes to trends, retweets, and general Bieber bashing there's plenty of it around.
I say plenty, I mean too much. Far too much. One post is too much.
It's a well designed app, and lets you browse through a lot of music quickly.
But it has two major flaws.
FLAW 1. Tunes not Tuna.
In order to tell the recommendation engine you *like* an artist, you have to *follow* the artist.
Follow him, not just in this app, but on Twitter.
I might like someone's music, but I really don't want to read their views on whale overpopulation.
FLAW 2 Psy not Psycho Killer
It's driven around contemporary music being published right now.
If you want to discover music from the late 80's, that's never going to manifest itself with this app.
But it has two major flaws.
FLAW 1. Tunes not Tuna.
In order to tell the recommendation engine you *like* an artist, you have to *follow* the artist.
Follow him, not just in this app, but on Twitter.
I might like someone's music, but I really don't want to read their views on whale overpopulation.
FLAW 2 Psy not Psycho Killer
It's driven around contemporary music being published right now.
If you want to discover music from the late 80's, that's never going to manifest itself with this app.
ok, Twitter launch Vine and I loved it. Launched #Music and I loved it too. My question is this: WHY IN THE HELL THE MOST IMPORTANT APP OF THE TWITTER OFFERINGS IS THE ONE THAT SUCK MORE!???? I'm talking about the Twitter app. Twitterrific is by far the best. I switched from Tweetbot (used to be the best in the App Store but It got old and now seems to be drowning...
Being a spotify premium member I think this app is fantastic and the UI is great. It would be great though if in a future update they let you "Star" tracks so they appear in my Spotify starred list. Basically as it is now there's no way to save anything....
How is this any different then what a App Suggesting App does?
I tried it out and I think its a little more intuitive then itunes for trying out new songs that I may have never heard before. What I want to know is how is this any different then what has been offered by the recent App that was shutdown because it was a store inside a store? I think Twitter gets a pass because they already have a deal in place with Apple on iOS.
I tried it out and I think its a little more intuitive then itunes for trying out new songs that I may have never heard before. What I want to know is how is this any different then what has been offered by the recent App that was shutdown because it was a store inside a store? I think Twitter gets a pass because they already have a deal in place with Apple on iOS.
I'm curious why you say iTunes is impossible
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To a degree it is less. At least for many, since they don't use Spotify etc. so there is no connection to their actual music.
If you want to see an example of what Ping could have been, look up Lala.com. Apple bought it and many believed Ping was going to be it combined with all the Genius and 'also bought/searched' data.
And how much of that was from iTunes or CDs. And of those CDs how many have GraceNote data. I bet most of it was CDs and had little to no data.
It's the same thing with a big part of my collection as it is imports and classical. Genius is based on 'folks with x in their library also have a, b, c etc' but if it can't identify x or it's not a title commonly found the likelihood that someone else's will have 10-25 songs that are the same as your collection goes down.
That's where Apple needs better metadata. From every possible method. And genre. And country.
But it seems to me that they could improve their data set faster than something like this which appears to be based on # and @ callous more than anything else.
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Well perhaps because this isn't giving you selected apps based on who paid for the mention. Among other issues
One word: Slacker. I love it. I've tried Rhapsody, Spotify and Pandora and Slacker's curators are the best. Check it out.
And I stand behind my comments. Genius returned two categories of Adult Alternative Rock, a Classical Mix, Adult Contemporary Mix, Soft Rock, Smooth Jazz Mix, Mainstream Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Classic Rock, Vocal Mix, Classic R&B, and Latin/World Mix.
It's found the same 100 tunes and repackaged them into these lame stream categories, leaving my other 40,000 tunes off all lists.
Hey, I can understand if it misses Stian Weisterhaus or Ernst Reijseger. But come on; Keith Jarrett, Bill Frisell, Pat Metheney, Joe Lovano, Wayne Shorter. These are very well known musicians Genius chooses to ignore. I'll trade haughty for ignorant any day of the week.
Test: Describe Clave rhythm in 140 characters or less.
Ignorant is assuming that most everyone on this site listens to auto-tuned top-40.
I don't know what that would prove, but I can't.